[mythtvnz] mhegepgsnoop problem

[Robin Gilks]

>
>> On 06/09/15 09:56, Robin Gilks wrote:
>>> Running python 2.7.9 on Debian Jessie and the last 3 nights I've had
>>> the
>>> following problem (presumably data related).
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>    File "/usr/local/bin/mhegepgsnoop-0.6.1.py", line 1611, in <module>
>>>      main()
>>>    File "/usr/local/bin/mhegepgsnoop-0.6.1.py", line 772, in main
>>>      download2(the_pid, datablocks, module_numbers, dmxfd,
>>> demux_filter)
>>>    File "/usr/local/bin/mhegepgsnoop-0.6.1.py", line 1147, in download2
>>>      buffer.extend(dmxfd.read(3))
>>> IOError: [Errno 75] Value too large for defined data type
>>>
>>> Anyone any ideas?
>>>
>> That's odd. It looks like the read from the dmxfd file descriptor is
>> failing in the line
>>
>> buffer.extend(dmxfd.read(3))
>>
>> I don't understand why. This should simply read three bytes and put them
>> in the buffer. It is an I/O error so maybe the dmxfd file descriptor is
>> not opened properly and the code is attempting to read 3 bytes from an
>> object which is less than 3 bytes in size? Maybe insert a "print
>> sys.getsizeof(dmxfd)" statement to see what size it is?
>>
>
> I put the print statement before the line in question and it reports (a
> total of 138 times) 144.
>
> Does this help?
>

This morning I've checked after the overnight run and it all fine again.

Something in the data must have changed!


-- 
Robin Gilks