[mythtv-users] Untraceable error message from Mythfilldatabase

[R. G. Newbury]

Somehow Mythfilldatabase has become borken in the last few days.
It runs, but reports near the end:

2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 Checking day @ offset 1, date: Mon May 5 2008
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 Data Refresh always needed for tomorrow
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 Refreshing data for Mon May 5 2008
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 This DataDirect listings source is shared by 2 
MythTV lineups
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 We should use cached data for this one
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 Retrieving datadirect data.
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 Grabbing data for Sun May 4 2008 offset 1
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 From Mon May 5 04:00:00 2008 to Tue May 6 
04:00:00 2008 (UTC)
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 Grabbing listing data
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 DataDirect: Copying from DD cache
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 DataDirect, Error: GrabData: Creating temp post file
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845 Encountered error in grabbing data.
2008-05-04 02:41:24.845


It *appears* that either mysql or datadirect.cpp has a permissions 
problem. I had not changed any permissions for mysql. In fact, the only 
change was to update the SVN level a few days ago, which is when mfdb 
started to fail.

I grep'ed around and found that this is from /libs/libmyth/datadirect.cpp.
That file has tmpdir hardwired as "/tmp" and datadirect.cpp tries to 
create temporary subfolders under /tmp. I chowned and chgrped /tmp to 
mysql in an attempt to fix things but still got the error. I chmod'ed to 
777: no joy.

Help....?

Geoff