[mythtv-users] sendProfile.py crashes nearly every boot (0.27)

[Raymond Wagner]

On 9/29/2013 3:58 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 9/29/2013 3:32 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>> On 09/29/2013 02:13 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> On 9/29/2013 3:10 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>>>> The backend runs it (by the housekeeper,) In my logs,
>>>> 3 seconds after the BE starts.
>>>
>>> If that's too soon, it would be fairly trivial to have the housekeeper
>>> delay operation by a few minutes. Additionally, now that it is being run
>>> by the housekeeper rather than on frontend startup, it will eventually
>>> retry. If I remember correctly, it will attempt once a day until
>>> successful, and then wait a month before attempting again.
>>
>> I'm one of those who's BE shuts down if it's not doing anything.
>>
>> Even if I run the command manually as the mythtv user:
>>
>> /usr/local/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/sendProfile.py --submitOnly -a
>>
>> and: echo $? returns 0.
>>
>> I <assumed> that would reset the 30 day counter, but the BE still
>> tries to run it (and fails) when I restarted it.
>>
>> I'd be glad to test an x minute delay.
>>
>
> Looking deeper, it seems I configured the hardware profiler to run
> immediately on startup regardless, and bypassing that to add a delay
> would be pretty clumsy to implement without an ABI change. There is also
> no differentiation between a successful and a failed run. It will always
> take the full 30 day delay.
>
> Both of which wouldn't be difficult to implement, just difficult to fix
> in 0.27. I'll have to think about this a bit more.

This should cause a retry five minutes after startup (of frontend or 
backend) if the initial submission failed, although I've not even tested 
compiling it, so use at your own risk.

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