[mythtvnz] Archiving problem

[Hayden Lovett]

Have you created a shared directory and defined it in the frontend setup?

I can't remember exactly how to do this but it needs to be done or
Mytharchive will not work as default.

If you need more info let me know,

-Hayden

2009/2/11 Steve V <olivuts at yahoo.com>

> Hi,
>
> I'm running mythtv 0.21 on Ubuntu 8.10
> I have a problem where MythArchive doesn't work. It gets to the log viewer
> and just sits there.
>
> I found this in the Wiki at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythArchive
>
>
> The most common reason for this is python is missing some required modules.
> The script requires imaging (PIL) and mysqldb both of which are not part of
> a standard python install so have to be installed separately.
>
> This is also a symptom of an incorrect temporary files setting. Note that
> the user running mythfrontend needs write access in this directory,
> regardless of the user running mythbackend.
>
> Once you have addressed the above dependencies and permissions, you may
> need to clear out your temp DVD directory to get the log viewer to start
> over, making files with the correct support.
>
> Finally, the problem might be that your frontend hasn't permission to write
> to one of the two directories that you've configured in MythArchive's setup.
> The easiest way to figure out what's wrong in a case like this is to start
> mythfrontend with it's stdout and stderr pointed to a useful logfile, if you
> don't already do this.
>
> The path to mytharchivehelper is hard coded to mythburn.py. Double check if
> it is found in $PATH
>
>
>
> What I would like to know is how to:
>
>
>
> start mythfrontend with it's stdout and stderr pointed to a useful logfile,
>
>
>
>
> I'm kinda new to Linux and I really don't know how to do the above. I
> expect that once I get the logs it will give me some clues as to why
> MythArchive is no progressing.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Steve
>
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