[mythtv-users] Problem with icons filetransfer - wrong path

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Thu May 25 15:14:14 UTC 2006


On 25/05/06, Cougar <mythtv at lost.data.ee> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I found that when my server NFS storage is not mounted in FE, I
> don't see channel icons. It looks like server messes up with file path
> somehow.
>
> Here is what my FE reports:
>
> 2006-05-25 15:58:51.947 UIImageType::LoadImage() - Cannot find image: /media/mythstorage/icons/fi/yle_tv1.jpg
>
> And BE gives such error messages:
>
> 2006-05-25 15:58:55.285 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2006-05-25 15:58:55.286 adding: t42 as a client (events: 0)
> 2006-05-25 15:58:55.325 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
> 2006-05-25 15:58:55.326 adding: t42 as a remote file transfer
> 2006-05-25 15:58:55.829 RingBuf(/media/mythstorage/yle_tv1.jpg): Could not open /media/mythstorage/yle_tv1.jpg.
>
> The right path is /media/mythstorage/icons/fi/yle_tv1.jpg
>
> In DB there is such entry:
>
> mysql> select icon from channel where icon like '%yle_tv1%';
> +-----------------------------------------+
> | icon                                    |
> +-----------------------------------------+
> | /media/mythstorage/icons/fi/yle_tv1.jpg |
> +-----------------------------------------+
>
> What happens with "icons/fi" part in path? /media/mythstorage is storage
> path for recordings. Is it possible that BE just takes storage
> path and adds basename of icon (because of security concerns or smth)?

Please see http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/203782

The icons' path needs to be accessible by the frontend. I think that
the system may default to the recordings directory when I cannot
access files in their stated path.

Nick
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