scheduled update fails most days

[stuartm]

I get an occasional failed to get a token. I attribute ythose to a problem at the SD end. I have always had my HTPC's sleep when idle. (it's one of the main reasons I went to HTPC's - in order to conserve energy plus the great WMC UI) However, I have always run win 7 with updates shut off from the time the HTPC's were instantiated. Your batch file sounds like a good workaround attempt.

[billmich]

I am also having downloading errors - even when i try and manually do it. and my computer is never in sleep mode

4/21/2022 5:57:26 PM] ===============================================================================
[4/21/2022 5:57:26 PM] Beginning epg123 update execution. version 1.7.1.4
[4/21/2022 5:57:26 PM] ===============================================================================
[4/21/2022 5:57:26 PM] *** Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit [Version: 6.1.7601.24312] ***
[4/21/2022 5:57:26 PM] *** Windows Media Center [Version: 6.1.7600.16385] is installed. ***
[4/21/2022 5:57:26 PM] [ INFO] Beginning EPG123 update execution. 2022-04-21 21:57:26Z
[4/21/2022 5:57:26 PM] [ INFO] DaysToDownload: 14 , TheTVDBNumbers : True , PrefixEpisodeTitle: True , PrefixEpisodeDescription : False , AppendEpisodeDesc: False , OADOverride : True , SeasonEventImages : True , TMDbCoverArt: True , IncludeSDLogos : True , AutoAddNew: True , CreateXmltv: False , ModernMediaUiPlusSupport: False
[4/21/2022 5:57:27 PM] [ INFO] Status request successful. account expires: 2023-02-10T18:50:13Z , lineups: 1/4 , lastDataUpdate: 2022-04-21T16:18:08Z
[4/21/2022 5:57:27 PM] [ INFO] system status: Online , message: No known issues.
[4/21/2022 5:57:28 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved TMDb configurations.
[4/21/2022 5:57:29 PM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of subscribed lineups from Schedules Direct.
[4/21/2022 5:57:29 PM] Entering BuildLineupServices() for 1 lineups.
[4/21/2022 5:57:29 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-MI02206-X.
[4/21/2022 5:57:30 PM] Exiting BuildLineupServices(). SUCCESS.
[4/21/2022 5:57:30 PM] Entering GetAllScheduleEntryMd5s() for 14 days on 640 stations.
[4/21/2022 5:57:37 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 357 station's daily schedules. (0:00:00:06.5233731 / 532.281 KB)
[4/21/2022 5:57:41 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 283 station's daily schedules. (0:00:00:04.4702556 / 421.981 KB)
[4/21/2022 5:57:41 PM] [ INFO] Found 8960 cached daily schedules.
[4/21/2022 5:57:41 PM] [ INFO] Downloaded 0 daily schedules.
[4/21/2022 5:57:45 PM] [ INFO] Processed 8960 daily schedules for 640 stations.
[4/21/2022 5:57:45 PM] Exiting GetAllScheduleEntryMd5s(). SUCCESS.
[4/21/2022 5:57:46 PM] Entering BuildAllProgramEntries() for 47237 programs.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] [ INFO] Found 47217 cached program descriptions.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved 20 program descriptions. (0:00:00:00.2610149 / 15.362 KB)
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] [ INFO] Processed 47237 program descriptions.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] Exiting BuildAllProgramEntries(). SUCCESS.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] Entering BuildAllGenericSeriesInfoDescriptions() for 9276 series.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] [ INFO] Found 9276 cached/unavailable series descriptions.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] [ INFO] Processed 9276 series descriptions.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] Exiting BuildAllGenericSeriesInfoDescriptions(). SUCCESS.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] Entering GetAllMoviePosters() for 4639 movies.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] [ INFO] Found 4639 cached/unavailable movie poster links.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] [ INFO] Processed 4639 movie poster links.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] Exiting GetAllMoviePosters(). SUCCESS.
[4/21/2022 5:57:52 PM] Entering GetAllSeriesImages() for 9276 series.
[4/21/2022 5:57:53 PM] [ INFO] Found 9228 cached/unavailable series image links.
[4/21/2022 5:57:53 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved artwork info for 48 programs. (0:00:00:00.1990114 / 57.774 KB)
[4/21/2022 5:57:53 PM] [ INFO] Processed 9276 series image links.
[4/21/2022 5:57:53 PM] Exiting GetAllSeriesImages(). SUCCESS.
[4/21/2022 5:57:53 PM] Entering GetAllSeasonImages() for 4669 seasons.
[4/21/2022 5:57:53 PM] [ INFO] Found 4525 cached/unavailable season image links.
[4/21/2022 5:57:54 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved artwork info for 144 programs. (0:00:00:00.8030459 / 834.408 KB)
[4/21/2022 5:57:54 PM] [ INFO] Processed 4669 season image links.
[4/21/2022 5:57:54 PM] Exiting GetAllSeasonImages(). SUCCESS.
[4/21/2022 5:57:54 PM] Entering GetAllSportsImages() for 713 sports events.
[4/21/2022 5:57:54 PM] [ INFO] Found 688 cached/unavailable sport event image links.
[4/21/2022 5:57:54 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved artwork info for 25 programs. (0:00:00:00.1570089 / 105.086 KB)
[4/21/2022 5:57:54 PM] [ INFO] Processed 713 sport event image links.
[4/21/2022 5:57:54 PM] Exiting GetAllSportsImages(). SUCCESS.
[4/21/2022 5:57:54 PM] [ INFO] Completed compiling keywords and keyword groups.
[4/21/2022 5:57:55 PM] [ INFO] Completed save of the MXF file to "C:\ProgramData\GaRyan2\epg123\output\epg123.mxf".
[4/21/2022 5:57:55 PM] [ INFO] 81 entries deleted from the cache file during cleanup.
[4/21/2022 5:57:57 PM] [ INFO] Downloaded and processed 1.921 MB of data from Schedules Direct.
[4/21/2022 5:57:57 PM] [ INFO] Generated .mxf file contains 640 services, 9276 series, 4669 seasons, 47237 programs, 205480 schedule entries, and 73131 people with 17722 image links.
[4/21/2022 5:57:57 PM] [ INFO] Completed EPG123 update execution. SUCCESS.
[4/21/2022 5:57:57 PM] [ INFO] epg123 update execution time was 00:00:30.6907554.
[4/21/2022 5:57:57 PM] ===============================================================================
[4/21/2022 5:57:57 PM] Beginning epg123 client execution. version 1.7.1.4
[4/21/2022 5:57:57 PM] ===============================================================================
[4/21/2022 5:57:57 PM] *** Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit [Version: 6.1.7601.24312] ***
[4/21/2022 5:57:57 PM] *** Windows Media Center [Version: 6.1.7600.16385] is installed. ***
[4/21/2022 5:57:57 PM] [ INFO] Import: True , Match: True , NoLogo: False , Force: False , ShowProgress: False , NoGC: True , NoVerify: False , Verbose: False
[4/21/2022 5:57:57 PM] Entering ImportMxfFile() for file "c:\programdata\garyan2\epg123\output\epg123.mxf".
[4/21/2022 5:58:22 PM] [ INFO] Error: The following error was encountered while processing the file. Aborting.
[4/21/2022 5:58:22 PM] [ INFO] RowSet::DeleteRow(Program_keywords Program_keywordsI_ParentChildKey) - DeleteRows() failed for handle 1 - HR = 0x80040e21, minor = 28574, 1514, 0, 0, "", "", ""
[4/21/2022 5:58:23 PM] [ERROR] Error using loadmxf.exe to import new guide information. Exit code: -1
[4/21/2022 5:58:23 PM] Exiting ImportMxfFile(). FAILURE.
[4/21/2022 5:58:23 PM] [ERROR] Failed to import .mxf file. Exiting.
[4/21/2022 5:58:23 PM] [ INFO] MXF file was created on 4/21/2022 5:57:26 PM
[4/21/2022 5:58:23 PM] [ INFO] Completed EPG123 client execution.
[4/21/2022 5:58:23 PM] [ INFO] EPG123 client execution time was 00:00:25.8624793.

[garyan2]

Your database is corrupted. You have garbage collection disabled (the -nogc switch on the task command line)... do you perform garbage collection somewhere else?

[billmich]

i do not - how do i rectify this

i did notice this started after i downloaded the latest version about a week ago

[garyan2]

At some point you had edited your Scheduled Task to add the "-nogc" switch to the action with epg123client.exe. If you want to start letting epg123 handle the garbage cleanup and keep your database in good shape then you can either edit it again to remove the switch, or simply delete your current task and create a new one.

To manually run garbage cleanup, from a command prompt run "START /WAIT c:\windows\ehome\mcupdate.exe -b -dbgc -updateTrigger". If it completes successfully then you can try an update again. If there are errors, not much you can do but perform a [Rebuild] from the client.

[technodevotee]

Update:
My PCs are updating reliably since I replaced the contents of the scheduled task so that it runs a batch file that waits for the network to be available before running the EPG123 steps that used to be in the task.

This is the batch file I created:

Code: Select all

@echo off
cd /d "%~d0"
setlocal

set /a pass=0
:loop
if %pass% equ 100 goto :end
set /a "pass+=1"
call ping bthub | find "time" >nul
if errorlevel 1 goto :loop


C:\Utils\epg123\epg123.exe -update
C:\Utils\epg123\epg123Client.exe -i "C:\Utils\epg123\output\epg123.mxf"

:end
echo %date%-%time%>update_epg.log
echo Passes: %pass%>>update_epg.log

Notes: The ping command is set to ping my router by name so that I know DNS is working. What find.exe checks for depends on the Windows version in use as the results ping returns seems to be different in different versions.

[technodevotee]

update:

I had to increase the max passes allowed as it kept exceeding the number of tries. One of the PCs gets up to 163 because ping returns an error almost instantaneously when the network isn't ready.

Also, the number of passes doesn't seem to make it into the log file because there's nothing following it so I changed the last bit to make it work.

My batch file is now:

Code: Select all

@echo off
cd /d "%~d0"
setlocal

set /a pass=0
:loop
if %pass% equ 200 goto :end
set /a "pass+=1"
ping bthub | find "time" >nul
if errorlevel 1 goto :loop


C:\Utils\epg123\epg123.exe -update
C:\Utils\epg123\epg123Client.exe -i "C:\Utils\epg123\output\epg123.mxf"

:end
echo %pass% pass(es) at %time% on %date%>>update_epg.log

[Space]

Instead of pinging in a rapid-fire way like this, you can instead pause in between pings by putting this right before the existing ping:

Code: Select all

ping 192.0.2.1 -n 1 -w 1000 >nul

1000 means 1000 milliseconds (1 second). You can use a smaller or larger number to increase or decrease the pause. In this way you only need to ping "bthub" a few times (once a second if you use 1000).

Using a ping like this to pause is a common way to pause in a Windows/DOS batch script because they did not include a better way to do it. Win10 finally has a way ("timeout"), but even that one is not great as it requires the input not be redirected, so may not work in all situations plus it does not work in Windows versions earlier than Win10.

P.S. The "call" command is meant to call other batch files, so it is not required to put it in front of the "ping", you can just call "ping" directly.

EDIT: In case you are wondering what is so special about the IP address 192.0.2.1, it is defined in RFC 3330. It states that any IP address starting with 192.0.2.x should only be used in documentation and example code and should not actually exist on the Internet, so the ping should time out (which is what we want so that the pause works correctly). So this address can really just be any IP address that does not exist.

[technodevotee]

I don't know where the call came from but you are correct it isn't needed.

[billmich]

last saturday i decided to start from scratch and do a new rebuild, It appeared to be successful. Today i noticed that my guide updates were failing again, Is there something i am not setting properly at the set-up?. Let me know so i can set it up again and hopefully have it be fully successful for the long term. any type of anti-virus setting or otherwise i need to triple check?

here is my log from just now:

[4/30/2022 12:01:15 PM] [ INFO] **** Intercepted "mcupdate.exe -u -nogc" call. Ignored. ****
[4/30/2022 12:03:51 PM] ===============================================================================
[4/30/2022 12:03:51 PM] Beginning epg123 update execution. version 1.7.1.4
[4/30/2022 12:03:51 PM] ===============================================================================
[4/30/2022 12:03:51 PM] *** Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit [Version: 6.1.7601.24312] ***
[4/30/2022 12:03:51 PM] *** Windows Media Center [Version: 6.1.7600.16385] is installed. ***
[4/30/2022 12:03:51 PM] [ INFO] Beginning EPG123 update execution. 2022-04-30 16:03:51Z
[4/30/2022 12:03:51 PM] [ INFO] DaysToDownload: 14 , TheTVDBNumbers : True , PrefixEpisodeTitle: True , PrefixEpisodeDescription : False , AppendEpisodeDesc: False , OADOverride : True , SeasonEventImages : True , TMDbCoverArt: True , IncludeSDLogos : True , AutoAddNew: True , CreateXmltv: False , ModernMediaUiPlusSupport: False
[4/30/2022 12:03:51 PM] [ INFO] Status request successful. account expires: 2023-02-10T18:50:13Z , lineups: 1/4 , lastDataUpdate: 2022-04-29T18:27:38Z
[4/30/2022 12:03:51 PM] [ INFO] system status: Online , message: No known issues.
[4/30/2022 12:03:53 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved TMDb configurations.
[4/30/2022 12:03:53 PM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of subscribed lineups from Schedules Direct.
[4/30/2022 12:03:53 PM] Entering BuildLineupServices() for 1 lineups.
[4/30/2022 12:03:54 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-MI02206-X.
[4/30/2022 12:03:55 PM] Exiting BuildLineupServices(). SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:03:55 PM] Entering GetAllScheduleEntryMd5s() for 14 days on 640 stations.
[4/30/2022 12:03:59 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 357 station's daily schedules. (0:00:00:03.9952285 / 532.244 KB)
[4/30/2022 12:04:03 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 283 station's daily schedules. (0:00:00:03.3951942 / 422.047 KB)
[4/30/2022 12:04:03 PM] [ INFO] Found 8960 cached daily schedules.
[4/30/2022 12:04:03 PM] [ INFO] Downloaded 0 daily schedules.
[4/30/2022 12:04:07 PM] [ INFO] Processed 8960 daily schedules for 640 stations.
[4/30/2022 12:04:07 PM] Exiting GetAllScheduleEntryMd5s(). SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:04:07 PM] Entering BuildAllProgramEntries() for 47234 programs.
[4/30/2022 12:04:13 PM] [ INFO] Found 47234 cached program descriptions.
[4/30/2022 12:04:13 PM] [ INFO] Processed 47234 program descriptions.
[4/30/2022 12:04:13 PM] Exiting BuildAllProgramEntries(). SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:04:13 PM] Entering BuildAllGenericSeriesInfoDescriptions() for 9126 series.
[4/30/2022 12:04:13 PM] [ INFO] Found 9126 cached/unavailable series descriptions.
[4/30/2022 12:04:13 PM] [ INFO] Processed 9126 series descriptions.
[4/30/2022 12:04:13 PM] Exiting BuildAllGenericSeriesInfoDescriptions(). SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:04:13 PM] Entering GetAllMoviePosters() for 4672 movies.
[4/30/2022 12:04:14 PM] [ INFO] Found 4672 cached/unavailable movie poster links.
[4/30/2022 12:04:14 PM] [ INFO] Processed 4672 movie poster links.
[4/30/2022 12:04:14 PM] Exiting GetAllMoviePosters(). SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:04:14 PM] Entering GetAllSeriesImages() for 9126 series.
[4/30/2022 12:04:14 PM] [ INFO] Found 9059 cached/unavailable series image links.
[4/30/2022 12:04:14 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved artwork info for 67 programs. (0:00:00:00.2060118 / 106.713 KB)
[4/30/2022 12:04:14 PM] [ INFO] Processed 9126 series image links.
[4/30/2022 12:04:14 PM] Exiting GetAllSeriesImages(). SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:04:14 PM] Entering GetAllSeasonImages() for 4751 seasons.
[4/30/2022 12:04:15 PM] [ INFO] Found 4563 cached/unavailable season image links.
[4/30/2022 12:04:15 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved artwork info for 188 programs. (0:00:00:00.8890508 / 1.082 MB)
[4/30/2022 12:04:16 PM] [ INFO] Processed 4751 season image links.
[4/30/2022 12:04:16 PM] Exiting GetAllSeasonImages(). SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:04:16 PM] Entering GetAllSportsImages() for 530 sports events.
[4/30/2022 12:04:16 PM] [ INFO] Found 518 cached/unavailable sport event image links.
[4/30/2022 12:04:16 PM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved artwork info for 12 programs. (0:00:00:00.1930111 / 51.874 KB)
[4/30/2022 12:04:16 PM] [ INFO] Processed 530 sport event image links.
[4/30/2022 12:04:16 PM] Exiting GetAllSportsImages(). SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:04:16 PM] [ INFO] Completed compiling keywords and keyword groups.
[4/30/2022 12:04:17 PM] [ INFO] Completed save of the MXF file to "C:\ProgramData\GaRyan2\epg123\output\epg123.mxf".
[4/30/2022 12:04:17 PM] [ INFO] 57 entries deleted from the cache file during cleanup.
[4/30/2022 12:04:19 PM] [ INFO] Downloaded and processed 2.169 MB of data from Schedules Direct.
[4/30/2022 12:04:19 PM] [ INFO] Generated .mxf file contains 640 services, 9126 series, 4751 seasons, 47234 programs, 205468 schedule entries, and 74075 people with 16623 image links.
[4/30/2022 12:04:19 PM] [ INFO] Completed EPG123 update execution. SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:04:19 PM] [ INFO] epg123 update execution time was 00:00:28.0646052.
[4/30/2022 12:04:19 PM] ===============================================================================
[4/30/2022 12:04:19 PM] Beginning epg123 client execution. version 1.7.1.4
[4/30/2022 12:04:19 PM] ===============================================================================
[4/30/2022 12:04:19 PM] *** Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit [Version: 6.1.7601.24312] ***
[4/30/2022 12:04:19 PM] *** Windows Media Center [Version: 6.1.7600.16385] is installed. ***
[4/30/2022 12:04:19 PM] [ INFO] Import: True , Match: True , NoLogo: False , Force: False , ShowProgress: False , NoGC: True , NoVerify: False , Verbose: False
[4/30/2022 12:04:19 PM] Entering ImportMxfFile() for file "c:\programdata\garyan2\epg123\output\epg123.mxf".
[4/30/2022 12:06:03 PM] [ INFO] Error: The following error was encountered while processing the file. Aborting.
[4/30/2022 12:06:03 PM] [ INFO] ScheduleEntry: InsertRow() failed (attempt 0 of 10) for (1, 77881E00000015000100000001000000E3CB01000000050000000000000000000FB8060000000E0000000000000000006B6E0A0000001D00009EDF2FB532DA08006E68F3C532DA08000000000000000000000000000400FFFF000000000000000000000000FFFF000000000000FFFF0000000000000000FFFF000000000000000000000000FFFF00000000000000000000000000000000) - HR = 0x80004005, minor = 28574, 1514, 0, 0, "", "", ""
[4/30/2022 12:06:04 PM] [ERROR] Error using loadmxf.exe to import new guide information. Exit code: -1
[4/30/2022 12:06:04 PM] Exiting ImportMxfFile(). FAILURE.
[4/30/2022 12:06:04 PM] [ERROR] Failed to import .mxf file. Exiting.
[4/30/2022 12:06:04 PM] [ INFO] MXF file was created on 4/30/2022 12:03:51 PM
[4/30/2022 12:06:05 PM] [ INFO] Completed EPG123 client execution.
[4/30/2022 12:06:05 PM] [ INFO] EPG123 client execution time was 00:01:45.6470426.

[garyan2]

Your database is still corrupt. Did you run the garbage cleanup?

[billmich]

i did the rebuild, then did a manual update (that was successful) - for the previous attempts that failed, it was during the importing phase right near the end and when the bar was at about the 80% level.

anyways, this is the log from my last update about 3 minutes ago , hopefully Gary or someone can tell if this did the trick and should not see any future problems

[4/30/2022 12:43:50 PM] *** Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit [Version: 6.1.7601.24312] ***
[4/30/2022 12:43:50 PM] *** Windows Media Center [Version: 6.1.7600.16385] is installed. ***
[4/30/2022 12:43:50 PM] [ INFO] Import: True , Match: True , NoLogo: False , Force: False , ShowProgress: False , NoGC: True , NoVerify: False , Verbose: False
[4/30/2022 12:43:50 PM] Entering ImportMxfFile() for file "c:\programdata\garyan2\epg123\output\epg123.mxf".
[4/30/2022 12:45:19 PM] [ INFO] Successfully imported .mxf file into Media Center database. Exit code: 0
[4/30/2022 12:45:19 PM] Exiting ImportMxfFile(). SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:45:19 PM] Entering VerifyLoad()
[4/30/2022 12:45:32 PM] [ INFO] Checked 205468 entries and corrected 0 of them.
[4/30/2022 12:45:32 PM] Exiting VerifyLoad()
[4/30/2022 12:45:34 PM] [ INFO] Completed the automatch of lineup stations to tuner channels.
[4/30/2022 12:45:34 PM] [ INFO] Completed lineup refresh.
[4/30/2022 12:45:34 PM] Entering RunWmcIndexTask(PvrScheduleTask)
[4/30/2022 12:45:34 PM] [ INFO] SUCCESS: Attempted to run the scheduled task "Microsoft\Windows\Media Center\PvrScheduleTask".
[4/30/2022 12:45:34 PM] [ INFO] Successfully started the PvrScheduleTask task. Exit code: 0
[4/30/2022 12:45:34 PM] Exiting RunWmcIndexTask(PvrScheduleTask). SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:45:34 PM] Entering RunWmcIndexTask(ReindexSearchRoot)
[4/30/2022 12:45:34 PM] [ INFO] SUCCESS: Attempted to run the scheduled task "Microsoft\Windows\Media Center\ReindexSearchRoot".
[4/30/2022 12:45:34 PM] [ INFO] Successfully started the ReindexSearchRoot task. Exit code: 0
[4/30/2022 12:45:34 PM] Exiting RunWmcIndexTask(ReindexSearchRoot). SUCCESS.
[4/30/2022 12:45:34 PM] [ INFO] MXF file was created on 4/30/2022 12:43:22 PM
[4/30/2022 12:45:35 PM] [ INFO] Completed EPG123 client execution.
[4/30/2022 12:45:35 PM] [ INFO] EPG123 client execution time was 00:01:45.4100291.

[billmich]

i see that gary replied in the meantime, I tried doing that garbage thing a week ago and never got it to work, so i thought a brand new rebuild was the way to go, start from scratch - and I thought it was good last weekend, but something along the line went bad, I read the epg123 installations instructions word for word and didnt see where i could turn anything on or off during rebuild/re-installation to modify anything

[billmich]

i went to command prompt and pasted your string in; when i included the quote marks, i got an error about syntax

when i pasted the stuff inside the quote marks, nothing happens, i don't even see the C: yet, and its been like 5 minutes. - it never says "success" or anything

i just tried to replicate and got the same results, thats why i went to the rebuild

[Space]

i went to command prompt and pasted your string in; when i included the quote marks, i got an error about syntax

when i pasted the stuff inside the quote marks, nothing happens, i don't even see the C: yet, and its been like 5 minutes. - it never says "success" or anything

i just tried to replicate and got the same results, thats why i went to the rebuild

Garbage cleanup can take over an hour to complete on some systems, you need to wait longer than 5 minutes.

Also, I don't know if it reports the result of the cleanup (although it might if it has errors) to the screen. You can look for the results in the Windows "Event Viewer" under: Application and Services Logs -> Media Center

Look for log entries with Source: MCUpdate, they will normally say "Starting client maintenance" and "Client maintenance has completed" (if there were no errors).

[billmich]

thats good to know - but more importantly is how on earth i ever turned it off in a script in the first place

thanks again


update - took about 20 minutes

[garyan2]

Sorry, I don't think you did. I forgot that demanded updates using [Save & Execute] or 'Update Guide' from the tray disable garbage cleanup during that update. The log entries you pasted showed -nogc so I thought that was from a task run.

Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk

[billmich]

what is my long term solution, i just did the command prompt thing -

how do i know this issue wont pop back up again, how can i manually check?

[Space]

I think the best way is to just keep an eye on the EPG123 status icon on the WMC main page. If there is a problem with importing new guide information it should be indicated with a red icon instead of the normal green icon. You can then look at the log and see if the reason appears to be a database corruption issue.

Database corruption occurs from time to time, but it should not be that often. If you find that it is occurring often, then there may be other issues with your system that would need to be investigated.

[billmich]

After less than 3 weeks, the updates are failing again; I will run the garbage clean up once again and see if I can import without a rebuild.

I would really prefer NOT to have to perform a manual garbage cleanup and rebuild every 10-14 days.
but before i do anything, i will post the log once again here. I tried a manual update last night around 6 pm, my normal update time is 4 am.

my most recent update attempt

[5/17/2022 4:03:20 AM] Beginning epg123 client execution. version 1.7.1.4
[5/17/2022 4:03:20 AM] ===============================================================================
[5/17/2022 4:03:20 AM] *** Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit [Version: 6.1.7601.24312] ***
[5/17/2022 4:03:20 AM] *** Windows Media Center [Version: 6.1.7600.16385] is installed. ***
[5/17/2022 4:03:20 AM] [ INFO] Import: True , Match: True , NoLogo: False , Force: False , ShowProgress: False , NoGC: False , NoVerify: False , Verbose: False
[5/17/2022 4:03:20 AM] Entering ImportMxfFile() for file "c:\programdata\garyan2\epg123\output\epg123.mxf".
[5/17/2022 4:04:32 AM] [ INFO] Successfully imported .mxf file into Media Center database. Exit code: 0
[5/17/2022 4:04:32 AM] Exiting ImportMxfFile(). SUCCESS.
[5/17/2022 4:04:32 AM] Entering VerifyLoad()
[5/17/2022 4:04:38 AM] [ INFO] Checked 88917 entries and corrected 0 of them.
[5/17/2022 4:04:38 AM] Exiting VerifyLoad()
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] [ INFO] Completed the automatch of lineup stations to tuner channels.
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] [ INFO] Completed lineup refresh.
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] Entering RunWmcIndexTask(PvrScheduleTask)
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] [ INFO] SUCCESS: Attempted to run the scheduled task "Microsoft\Windows\Media Center\PvrScheduleTask".
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] [ INFO] Successfully started the PvrScheduleTask task. Exit code: 0
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] Exiting RunWmcIndexTask(PvrScheduleTask). SUCCESS.
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] Entering RunWmcIndexTask(ReindexSearchRoot)
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] [ INFO] SUCCESS: Attempted to run the scheduled task "Microsoft\Windows\Media Center\ReindexSearchRoot".
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] [ INFO] Successfully started the ReindexSearchRoot task. Exit code: 0
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] Exiting RunWmcIndexTask(ReindexSearchRoot). SUCCESS.
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] [ INFO] MXF file was created on 5/9/2022 4:57:59 PM
[5/17/2022 4:04:40 AM] [ERROR] The MXF file imported is 179.11 hours old.
[5/17/2022 4:04:41 AM] [ INFO] Completed EPG123 client execution.
[5/17/2022 4:04:41 AM] [ INFO] EPG123 client execution time was 00:01:20.7146166.