[mythtv-users] Movie & Category lists empty...

[Bruce Markey]

Jules Gosnell wrote:
> 
> Since upgrading my server to FC4 and moving up to 0.18, I seem to have 
> lost the contents of these two under 
> manageRecordings/ScheduleRecordings/SearchLists....
> 
> mythfilldatabase seems to be working happily and regularly and all my 
> other program listing views are fully populated - maybe whatever is used 
> to tag these has changed or somehow got broken in my installation ?

Movies are selected by checking the program.category_type field
and the Category lists are based on the program.category field.
Look at the frontend output messages when you go to these pages
to see if there are any database errors reported. You could highlight
some shows from any of the scheduling pages and press "U" to see the
program details and look to see if there are values for these fields.

You could also try:

mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg
mysql> select category_type,category from program;

to see of these fields are populated or blank. If blank, there is
a problem with your grabber or mythfilldatabase getting this info
into the program table. If populated then there is a problem with
mythfrontend querying for these values.

--  bjm