[mythtv-users] update failed now fe crashes

[Andrew Potter]

OK,

Thanks for that I found a forum on the web were you were talking to another
user (Helen) and followed her advice on changing the Hardware updated time.
I can now get the fe to start using just mythfrontend.real.

Quote " For anyone who's looking for a non-command-line solution, I was able
to accomplish the same workaround as Bill via mythweb -> Settings, changing
to the hostname of the problem frontend, then changing the value of
HardwareProfileLastUpdated to a date in the past but less than 30 days from
today."

Will try and find some links to info on the wrapper script


Thanks again for your help


Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Bill Meek
Sent: Wednesday, 27 March 2013 1:30 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] update failed now fe crashes

On 03/26/2013 09:02 PM, Andrew Potter wrote:
...
 >> 2013-03-27 12:22:16.434967 I Last hardware profile update was > 30 days
> ago, update required...
>
> To make sure it's not the profile update, try this:
>
>       mythfrontend.real -v system -O
> HardwareProfileLastUpdated='2013-03-26T00:00:00Z'
>
> However, I'd expect the screen to draw after 2 minutes even without 
> the above.

 > That worked the screen did finish loading.

The command that failed should have printed when you used -v system. If you
run it, I suspect you'll see a 502 proxy error. It was happening about a
week+ ago too.

You could *temporarily* move the python script to a new name and then
replace it with a link to /bin/true.

That will allow the timestamp to get updated to today's date. Hopefully the
server will be back up and running 30 days from now.

Remove the link and restore the python script to its original name.

As to the follow-up that you wrote while I was writing the above, I'm afraid
I can't help because I don't have that wrapper script to mythfrontend.real.

It would appear from your earlier post that the script is
clobbered:

 > /usr/bin/mythfrontend: 41: /usr/bin/mythfrontend: Syntax error: "done"
 > unexpected

So running it manually or from the desktop menu is sure to fail.

I'm confused about mythfrontend.real not running from the command line.
Because you said earlier that the screen did finish loading.  In any case
for that problem, I'd put a full log in a pastebin and put a link to the
pastebin here. The override (-O) I suggested earlier doesn't change anything
in your database and it's only good for that run of the frontend.

--
Bill
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