[mythtv-users] Metadata Lookup Errored in Backend Log - On Every Recording.

Greg Grotsky spikeygg.mythbox at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 19:02:24 UTC 2012


On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Greg Grotsky <spikeygg.mythbox at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:
>
>> Delete the existing, broken, 0-byte config.xml, then run mythtv-setup or
>> mythfrontend.
>>
>>
>
> What are the causes of a zero byte config.xml file?  I had the backend
> working great and not getting any errors all week long several recordings
> processed without issues.  I updated myth last night and this morning I
> started seeing mythpreviewgen error 128 again on two recordings from last
> night.  I started digging into it and I found that my config.xml file went
> to 0 bytes again! :(  Is there something I can do in order to keep this
> file from getting zeroed out again?
>

Nevermind, it appears as though someone is already hot on the trail of this
issue: "Ticket #10249: config.xml gets truncated due to race condition when
rewriting it on every applicatio​n run"
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