mediaportal.xml truncated to zero-> instant crash (1 Viewer)

Craydk

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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

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    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)?

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    Roy
     

    Craydk

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    :)

    yeah it was clean.

    those women i tell you.....
     

    Craydk

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    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

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    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 :)

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    Roy
     

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