[mythtv-users] MythArchive problem

[Matt Taylor]

> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 19:29 -0400, Steve Harrington wrote: 
> > 
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > This is my second install of MythTV Frontend on a particular PC in my
> > > house.  When I try
> > > to burn something from MythArchive, I get this error:
> > > 
> > > mythburn.py (0.1.20061201-1) starting up...
> > > Process priority 8
> > > script path:/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts
> > > myth share path:/usr/share/mythtv
> > > passed job file: /home/steve/mythwork/config/mydata.xml
> > > passed progress log file: /home/steve/mythwork/logs/progress.log
> > > mythburn.py (0.1.20061201-1) starting up...
> > > Found 1 CPUs
> > > Obtaining MythTV settings from MySQL database for hostname alien
> > > Processing Mythburn job number 1.
> > > Options - mediatype = 0, doburn = 1, createiso = 0, erasedvdrw = 0
> > >          savefilename = ''
> > > Looking for: /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/themes/Compact/theme.xml
> > > Loading font 0, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 19
> > > Loading font 1, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 15
> > > Loading font 2, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 13
> > > wantIntro: 1, wantMainMenu: 1, wantChapterMenu:0, wantDetailsPage: 0
> > > Final DVD Video format will be ntsc
> > > There are 1 files to process
> > > Pre-processing file '1501_20070503173000.mpg' of type 'recording'
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 3600, in
> > > <module>
> > >    processJob(job)
> > > File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 3378, in
> > > processJob
> > >    preProcessFile(node,folder)
> > > File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 1076, in
> > > preProcessFile
> > >    mediafile = os.path.join(recordingpath,
> > > file.attributes["filename"].value)
> > > File "posixpath.py", line 62, in join
> > >    elif path == '' or path.endswith('/'):
> > > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'endswith'
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > Has anyone seen this before?  I tried googling this error but couldn't
> > > figure it out.
> > > I'm using Ubuntu Feisty if that helps.  I would guess that one of my
> > > paths is missing the
> > > '/' character by the error, but I can't find which one.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> >   
> 
> 
> I get this same error when I run as a normal user.  Try starting
> mythfrontend as root.  It seems to be an effective work around, but I
> would like to have a fix.
> 
> Matt
> 
> Thanks Matt!
> 
> I'm still encountering this issue even if I start as root.  If it helps any, this is a stand-alone front end setup, so the file(s) must be transmitted over the network if that makes a difference.
> 
> Thanks!
> Steve


Can you burn an ISO image, starting as root?

Matt

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