[mythtvnz] Help-can't get grabber and mythfilldatabase to work right
Paulgir
paulgir at gmail.com
Thu Apr 25 05:50:08 BST 2013
>>> Ok I'm back trying to get this grabber working after some major
>>> problems
>>> after a power cut.
>>>
>>> I used wget and successfully downloaded 210k of data and viewed it with
>>> zless -it's all there,so it does not appear to be a problem getting the
>>> data.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>> I've looked at the logs - nothing there that gives me any idea why
>> mythfilldatabase does not work.
>> 2013-04-20 16:24:05.656260 E FillData: xmltv returned error code 2
>> 2013-04-20 16:24:05.656759 E Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file
>>
>> What file?
>>
>> Paul
>
> That message normally indicates that the XML in the uncompressed xmltv
> file is invalid. The XML parsing has tried to read more from the file
> and has not found the right data and has read beyond the end of file.
> This does occasionally happen when something goes wrong on the web
> server with the creation of the EPG file, as might well have happened
> if it got caught by the same power cut as you. But you already looked
> at the uncompressed data and it seemed OK, so I am not sure. Usually,
> when there are problems like this, they are fixed by the next time you
> download the EPG the next day, and you should still have 6 days of EPG
> stored so it is usually not a problem.
>
>
This problem predates the power outage.The grabber has never worked from
installation on Saturday.I have attempted mythfilldatabase operations
everyday since then.
Paul
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