Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 11:14 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> Besides the bug in the error message, why can't beacon find the media?
>> The media support (different root dirs on different media like cd) is
>> not integrated yet and you should always find the media (normal hd).
>
> I honestly couldn't tell you why.  I hope that's a rhetorical
> question. :)  

Yes, just thinking loud to hope you get an idea...

> sqlite> select name,id from objects_dir where id in (13,8,9);
> tv|8
> |9
> buffy|13
>
> Indeed, 9 is empty.  Why, I have no idea.  But it looks like beacon has
> added a phantom parent in there:
>
> / -> home -> tack -> tv -> (EMPTY) -> buffy

... like this one.

>
> I'll see if I can figure out why when I get home.   Unless you have any
> ideas.  But the directory structure under /home/tack/tv is quite
> straightforward, with no symlinks at all.
>
> Ah, but note, if I delete ~/.beacon and run:
>
>    BEACON_MONITOR=/home/tack/tv beacon --start
>
> Then the query that before failed now works fine.  So there's something
> about my having previously attempted to index /data/movies that is
> causing this problem.  Possibly due to the failure indexing /data/movies
> it has left some cruft in the tables that is confusing matters.  If so,
> aside from the original bug, that's a bug too. :)

It should work now (also with your softlinks)

>> Not lots of bugs, but small stuff that doesn't match my testing cases
>> like your softlinks for example. 
>
> I'm sure there are stranger configurations than mine. :)

Yes, I guess. Like softlinks pointing to nothing. 


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