mytharchive: chooses wrong dvd-device for "Native archive" job

[tormen <tormen@…>]

gentoo media-plugins/mytharchive version: 0.20_p11222
gentoo media-tv/mythtv version: 0.20_p11626

Within mythfrontend I chose the following settings:

• Utilities/Setup?
• Setup
• Media Settings
• Archive File Settings
  • Location of DVD: /dev/dvdwriter2

I created a Video-dvd first. This worked flawlessly. (thnx, great work!)

Now I tried to create a "Native archive". This failed. Because mytharchive tried to access /dev/dvd.

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Logfile of Mytharchive: progress.log:

2006-11-27 21:51:08.976 Copy completed OK
2006-11-27 21:51:08.976 Item Archived OK
2006-11-27 21:51:09.042 Burning ISO image to /dev/dvd
:-( /dev/dvd: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0
2006-11-27 21:51:10.154 ERROR: Failed while running growisofs. Result: 252

[tormen]

The problem must be in mytharchivehelper. mythburn.py seems ok (<<< I looked into it - the advantage of script-files :-) But I suppose you will know this ;-)

tormen.

[paulh]

Replying to tormen:

The problem must be in mytharchivehelper. mythburn.py seems ok (<<< I looked into it - the advantage of script-files :-) But I suppose you will know this ;-)

tormen.

Yep. That is where you would think the problem would be, except I can't reproduce it at all. Have you been able to reproduce it a second time?

Looking at the code the only way I can see it produce this problem is if for some reason gContext->GetSetting?("MythArchiveDVDLocation", "/dev/dvd") fails to retrieve the setting from the DB and uses the default setting.

What does running this query in mysql give? SELECT * FROM settings WHERE value = "MythArchiveDVDLocation";

Was you running on the same host both times?

[tormen <tormen@…>]

Hi.

Yes, I am able to reproduce! I checked mythburn.py. Then I reported the bug, gave up and added a symlink /dev/dvd to the right device and then it worked ;-)

Yes mysql and backend and frontend on the same host.

The SELECT gives:

mysql> SELECT * FROM settings WHERE value = "MythArchiveDVDLocation";
+------------------------+-----------------+----------+
| value                  | data            | hostname |
+------------------------+-----------------+----------+
| MythArchiveDVDLocation | /dev/dvdwriter2 | jolie    |
+------------------------+-----------------+----------+
1 row in set (0.03 sec)

Maybe you can provide a DEBUG-version of mytharchivehelper and I send you the output?

tormen.

[tormen <tormen@…>]

Hi.

When trying to reproduce: My /dev/dvdwriter2 is a SYMLINK (set up by udev) to hda (/dev/hda)!

Maybe this causes the problem for mytharchivehelper? (because for the mythburn.py it was ok with the symlink)

tormen.

[paulh]

(In [12160]) Fix a typo which was causing the native archive format to always use the default DVD location. Refs #2740.

[paulh]

(In [12161]) Fix a typo which was causing the native archive format to always use the default DVD location. Fixes #2740.