[mythtv-users] Guide Data wiped out if MythTV is left on Main Menu

David Miller dave at justdave.net
Thu Jul 12 00:24:16 UTC 2007


Matt wrote on 7/11/07 5:45 PM:
> On 7/11/07, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/11/07, David Miller <dave at justdave.net> wrote:
>>> Alex Guichard wrote on 7/10/07 7:41 PM:
>>>> I have found that if I leave MythTV frontend open to
>>>> the menu screen for any extended period of time, the
>>>> guide data somehow gets deleted, and I am left with
>>>> 'unknown' for every channel (regardless of tuner).
>>>> Any thoughts on what is deleting my guide data and how
>>>> to stop it?
>>> I suspect it's a complete coincidence, and the fact that datadirect has
>>> been having problems lately is probably what's responsible.  Most MythTV
>>> setups have a cron job that periodically runs mythfilldatabase, so it's
>>> going to replace what's in the database with what's on the server
>>> ocassionally anyway, and if the server's messed up at the time...
>>>
>> Hopefully, most MythTV setups are using the "recommended next run"
>> time / date for mythfilldatabase.
> 
> You would think... but look where we're at.

The Ubuntu package drops a short script that runs mythfilldatabase into
/etc/cron.daily.

-- 
Dave


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