[mythtv-users] mythtranscode won't start in SVN

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Mar 6 16:54:31 UTC 2008


On 03/06/2008 03:55 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> On 05/03/2008, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 03/05/2008 04:40 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
>>     
>>> On 3/5/08, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
>>>> * On Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 08:18:00PM +0000, Steve Smith wrote:
>>>>> It's all right I've fixed it!
>>>>> Just needed to set the variable to "mythtranscode" and crucially....
>>>>> restart the backend.
>>>> A CLEAR_SETTINGS_CACHE message is sent to the backend when you exit
>>>> mythtv-setup, so this value should have been reloaded when the job
>>>> was run the next time.  Is this a slave backend or the master?  I just
>>>> tested this functionality and the event was sent and the master
>>>> backend cleared its settings cache and sent the CLEAR_SETTINGS_CACHE
>>>> to all connected clients.
>>>>         
>>> Actually i was changing the setting using Mythweb so i expect that
>>> explains why it didnt take.
>>>       
>> MythWeb (trunk/0.21-fixes) also issues a CLEAR_SETTINGS_CACHE.
>>     
> Really? That's interesting... I'll try to see if I can recreate it
> then to see if I've stumbled on a genuine (if very minor) bug.

Note that 0.20-fixes doesn't, though.  Make sure you have a version that 
does before you start debugging.  :)

Mike


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list