mythfilldatabase runs the North American TV grabber (tv_grab_na) and the grabber generates an error then quits. This prevents mythfilldatabase from populating the database with program information. I am running MythTV Version 0.12 and xmltv Version 0.5.19. `perl --version' reports the following: This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i686-linux Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run mythfilldatabase Actual Results: ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Can't call method "say" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 535. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Wed Nov 5 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Can't call method "say" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 535. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Thu Nov 6 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Can't call method "say" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 535. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Fri Nov 7 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Can't call method "say" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 535. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Sat Nov 8 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Can't call method "say" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 535. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Sun Nov 9 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Can't call method "say" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 535. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Mon Nov 10 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Can't call method "say" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 535. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Tue Nov 11 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Can't call method "say" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 535. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Wed Nov 12 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Can't call method "say" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 535. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Thu Nov 13 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Can't call method "say" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 535. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Failed to fetch some program info Expected Results: mythfilldatabase should of run tv_grab_na and populated the database with program information.
can you try xmltv-0.5.20. some grabber fixes were put in. if it works we'll need to push 0.5.20 to stable. thanks.
xmltv 0.5.20 is a no go. I got similar errors to version 0.5.19. The errors are as follows: ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Undefined subroutine &main::say called at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 530. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Thu Nov 6 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Undefined subroutine &main::say called at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 530. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Fri Nov 7 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Undefined subroutine &main::say called at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 530. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Sat Nov 8 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Undefined subroutine &main::say called at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 530. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Sun Nov 9 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Undefined subroutine &main::say called at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 530. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Mon Nov 10 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Undefined subroutine &main::say called at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 530. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Tue Nov 11 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Undefined subroutine &main::say called at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 530. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Wed Nov 12 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Undefined subroutine &main::say called at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 530. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Thu Nov 13 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Undefined subroutine &main::say called at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 530. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Fetching data for Fri Nov 14 2003 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output ----------------- Undefined subroutine &main::say called at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 530. ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------ Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Failed to fetch some program info The subroutine `say' is missing. I don't know if it is an internal subroutine or part of a module. ... Wait a minute, I found the problem. /usr/bin/tv_grab_na has the following line in it: use XMLTV::Ask; This eventually pulls in the say subroutine from XMLTV::AskTerm which is only included in newer version of XMLTV. I found that /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Ask.pm existed and after looking at the file found out it was from version 0.5.16 of XMLTV, which doesn't contain the XMLTV::AskTerm module and therefore the say subroutine. And what does perl do? Perl searches for modules in site_perl before vendor_perl. vendor_perl is where modules are installed from portage and where XMLTV 0.5.20 was installed. I looked at the listing of files in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/auto/XMLTV/.packlist and compared it to the files on the system and sure enough the following files still existed on my system: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Ask.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Clumps.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Config_file.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Europe_TZ.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Get_nice.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Grab_XML.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Grep.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Gunzip.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/IMDB.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Memoize.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Mode.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Summarize.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/TZ.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Usage.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/Version.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/ZapListings.pm I unmerge xmltv, then proceeded to remove the above listed files, then merged xmltv again and finally ran mythfilldatabase. mythfilldatabase did show some errors that I need to figure out but they are unrelated to this issue (I think/hope). BTW: I did install XMLTV 0.5.16 from portage so I don't know why it was left on my system after an update. I ran a emerge -P xmltv but it stated "No packages selected for removal".
Thank you for your investigation. It looks like it is a portage problem after all. I wonder if when 0.5.16 was merged, not everything was recorded into the CONTENTS file. Might have been a one-time fluke. I'll close this bug for now, and if you see anything like this again, please create a new bug and assign it to the portage team. Thanks.
