mediaportal.xml truncated to zero-> instant crash

Craydk · 2008-06-02, 11:11

had an unusual experiance with MP... One day (after my grilfriend had been home alone) MP would start anymore (crashed unexpectedly) config would start either. TV-server worked fine though...
After alot of going back and forth i eventually discovered that mediaportal.xml had been truncated to zero (ie file exist but no content). I deleted the emty file and everything ran smoothly.

unfortunaly i have no logs (deleted accidently) and i have no idea why the file was truncated to zero. so no reproduce (give my girlfriend another go

). but perhaps an exceptionhandler should not just look at if the file exist (which i would image it does?) but also if it is valid too?

/regard

this was on vista with the SVN build of last week

ronilse · 2008-06-02, 15:59

Hi,
Yeah live & learn(that means don't let gf/wife get the hands on MP

)

Joke aside. Not sure we can do anything, but will check. Btw was the MediaPortal.xml complete clean(nothing in it)?

Regards
Roy

Craydk · 2008-06-03, 08:24

yeah it was clean.

those women i tell you.....

Craydk · 2008-06-04, 19:49

think i discovered the problem.... as it happened again...
It was running (very) short on disk space. this time it was not truncated to zero but the problem disappered when i deleted mediaportal.xml... oh well i deleted a bunch of old recordings and dont plan on seing the issue again...

ronilse · 2008-06-04, 21:46

Hi,
Yeah, the 0byte file & crash it's fixed by Bavarian so that shouldn't happen again, the space left on hdd i can't help you with

Thanks for reporting

Regards
Roy

2008-06-02, 11:11	#1 (permalink)
Craydk Portal Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Age: 26 Posts: 26 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Country: My System	mediaportal.xml truncated to zero-> instant crash had an unusual experiance with MP... One day (after my grilfriend had been home alone) MP would start anymore (crashed unexpectedly) config would start either. TV-server worked fine though... After alot of going back and forth i eventually discovered that mediaportal.xml had been truncated to zero (ie file exist but no content). I deleted the emty file and everything ran smoothly. unfortunaly i have no logs (deleted accidently) and i have no idea why the file was truncated to zero. so no reproduce (give my girlfriend another go ). but perhaps an exceptionhandler should not just look at if the file exist (which i would image it does?) but also if it is valid too? /regard this was on vista with the SVN build of last week

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2008-06-02, 15:59	#2 (permalink)
ronilse Portal Tester Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 3,141 Thanks: 18 Thanked 84 Times in 70 Posts Country: My System	Hi, Yeah live & learn(that means don't let gf/wife get the hands on MP ) Joke aside. Not sure we can do anything, but will check. Btw was the MediaPortal.xml complete clean(nothing in it)? Regards Roy

2008-06-03, 08:24	#3 (permalink)
Craydk Portal Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Age: 26 Posts: 26 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Country: My System	yeah it was clean. those women i tell you.....

2008-06-04, 19:49	#4 (permalink)
Craydk Portal Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Age: 26 Posts: 26 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Country: My System	think i discovered the problem.... as it happened again... It was running (very) short on disk space. this time it was not truncated to zero but the problem disappered when i deleted mediaportal.xml... oh well i deleted a bunch of old recordings and dont plan on seing the issue again...

2008-06-04, 21:46	#5 (permalink)
ronilse Portal Tester Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 3,141 Thanks: 18 Thanked 84 Times in 70 Posts Country: My System	Hi, Yeah, the 0byte file & crash it's fixed by Bavarian so that shouldn't happen again, the space left on hdd i can't help you with Thanks for reporting Regards Roy