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Title: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: canzi on November 08, 2008, 08:02:03 am
Hi Again

looking at my files from a MD i see all the linuxmce setup video
it looks like most (not all) of the home dir has been added to the database

how can i remove directories like
tmp_19 temp_pvr videowiz ect

cheers

Steve
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: canzi on November 16, 2008, 12:48:04 pm
bump  ;D
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: totallymaxed on November 16, 2008, 01:09:47 pm
bump  ;D

ssh into your Core. Then use sudo rm -r /home/public/data/...

Andrew
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: canzi on November 16, 2008, 01:52:07 pm
cheers for the reply,
that will delete the data, but i was wanting to leave the data ie the linuxmce video
and remove it from the database

i guess the question would be, what defines the directories/files that gets put into the database
adding is easy cause i can just click syncronise but how can it be removed?

cheers

Steve
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: totallymaxed on November 16, 2008, 02:12:57 pm
cheers for the reply,
that will delete the data, but i was wanting to leave the data ie the linuxmce video
and remove it from the database

i guess the question would be, what defines the directories/files that gets put into the database
adding is easy cause i can just click syncronise but how can it be removed?

cheers

Steve

UpdateMedia will automatically scan for files in the /home/public/data/ directory and its subdirectories.

See the Wiki here for more info (especially the last para on this page); http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/How_are_media_files_organized%3F (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/How_are_media_files_organized%3F)

All the best

Andrew
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: canzi on November 17, 2008, 01:47:00 pm
great advice,
there particular directories are outside the data directory but ill go through the database and see what i can find

cheers
Steve
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: Zaerc on November 17, 2008, 05:15:23 pm
great advice,
there particular directories are outside the data directory but ill go through the database and see what i can find

cheers
Steve


Just FYI but most people who went through the database like that have ended up reinstalling.
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: orionsune on December 02, 2008, 06:24:25 pm
I ended up re-installing to solve this myself.

And I vaguely remember one of these vets here suggesting that I create an empty file in the folder just underneath the folder I don't want scanned.

So if you had files named 23492304293048.mpg in "/home/public/data/mythtv/tv_shows_1" and you don't want that showing up... you create a file called "tv_shows_1.folderlock" in the /home/public/data/mythtv folder.  Of course this particular example I just modified the source so that folder is located elsewhere while still maintaining the automatic entry into the media list and using symbolic links in the public folder or private folder whichever way that recording was marked.

Trick is doing this directly after installation and before it starts scanning.

Another work around I had, is if the data in that unwanted folder needs to remain, but does not have to be in that folder, just move the folder.

and if that folder that is generated automatically by some process but can be deleted temporarily, then deleted the folder, invoke a updatemedia, then quickly create the file as described above before that directory is created again.

I'm sure there are a plethora of methods, and I could list more, but my linuxmce is extremely modified from source due to the lack of ease of use, stability, hardware support, and poor mechanisms for automated background processes so my suggestions may not be accurate.
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: tschak909 on December 02, 2008, 07:27:56 pm
Would you care to share your patches with us, so we can improve our ease of use and hardware compatibility? ...

after all, you're obliged to under GPL.

-Thom
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: indulis on December 03, 2008, 12:39:01 am
...

I'm sure there are a plethora of methods, and I could list more, but my linuxmce is extremely modified from source due to the lack of ease of use, stability, hardware support, and poor mechanisms for automated background processes so my suggestions may not be accurate.


I can understand this, I have found that LMCE fights me all the way to working, and have also had to start modifying LMCE shell scripts.  I know the developers are working hard but there are problems with the way LMCE works, and the announced 12 month release cycle will just generate more hardware compatibility issues.

I've given quite a bit of though to the problems I have encountered and why LMCE has been so hard to get working, and I feel that the root cause is that LMCE was written for a limited set of hardware platforms, configured in a certain way.  Released into the big bad world the simplistic assumptions it makes about its environment mean that the attempts to be overly smart become a big fat pain in the you-know-what.

simplistic = characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity

Examples, LMCE:
- assumes that it can overwrite Mythtv settings at each reboot
- assumes it can overwrite xorg.conf at each reboot
- runs AVwizard and reconfigures when it feels like it
- launches Mythtv for LiveTV and if a tuner is not available keeps trying to go back to LiveTV over and over and over again
- assumes that any RAID device is a storage device- if / is RAID then UpdateMedia goes into an infinite loop
- did not have an up to date kernel, so my TV tuners kept failing (USB disconnect, AMD northbridge- known and fixed problem)
- did not have an up to date Linuxtv set of tuner drivers for DVB-T

Once you rely on an automatic system it has to be *perfect* in all its functions, otherwise a single problem gets magnified.  I spent more time stopping LMCE from trashing my xorg.conf than I did getting my xorg.conf right (and much more time than I spent handcrafting a "single adapter-2 displays- one monitor- one TV" configuration for my previous Mythtv install).

The core architecture of LMCE is good (router, multiroom, IR command intercept etc), but the stuff around it which tries turn it into a consumer appliance is misplaced and a burden to hobbyists trying to get LMCE running on a variety of hardware and software configurations.

If you are lucky, LMCE would probably be a breeze to install.  If everything runs smoothly it would be amazing. But get one problem and you have to be hacking shell scripts to stop infinite loops in your filesystem.

So, IMHO LMCE needs 2 modes: appliance mode (current version), and a hobbyist mode where once it has configured it just LEAVES EVERYTHING ALONE and does not try to reconfigure X, Mythtv etc.

And it needs an approach to increasing robustness- in this case defined as the ability to cope with differetn configurations of hardware, software, and configuration (e.g. cope with having LVM filesystems, or / on RAID).

FInally, to become a true hub for the home it needs to have at least some strategy for high availability.  That is, if the core fails, there should be at least an easy manual way to reconfigure to get say an MD take on the core functions (esp the security, home automation parts and telephony as these are IMHO the "mission critical" functions, TV and audio are not).  This might be done with say a NAS drive, or DRBD.

I also don't find the UI very usable for viewing my recorded TV programs.  A huge flat list of files is ugly and unworkable no matter how slick you make the the flipping between pages and pages of files.  I find myself going back to Mythtv and using it to browse my most recently recorded list, or browse to a series name to see the episodes- in LMCE I can't even tell which media entry is which episode, and if I select one to watch and it isn't the right one, it is back to the start of the list and start flipping again.  And I don't think it is reasonable to force a user to "filter" a view just to easily get to an episode of a series.

If I didn't think LMCE was good I would not bother writing this (or contributing here or updating the WIKI), so please do not flame me.  I also know that this is an open source project with people dedicating their time for free to make it work.  But LMCE could do with some rethinking to make it installable, manageable, workable and supportable.

Right now, I would not recommend it to my computer and Linux savvy friends to use in their homes, as it is just too finicky and time consuming to get working.  And it fights the user too much!
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: tschak909 on December 03, 2008, 12:46:26 am
I love it when people critique, and don't give patches.

Please, submit patches, and help work with us to get what you want, instead of just complaining. That is ALL I've seen you do for months on this forum.

-Thom
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: tschak909 on December 03, 2008, 12:55:02 am
Let me clarify this a bit more to the both of you...

You both obviously have the wherewithal to modify small and large parts of the system to bend it to your will...

And you have the aggressiveness to talk about it at every turn, in every single forum post about HOW much LinuxMCE has inconvienienced you at every turn, and how you've had to make ALL THESE CHANGES....

yet....

you seem somewhat inconvienienced to:

(a) work with us? or
(b) just send us the changes you made so we can look over em?

How selfish is that? They're going to go into the code base for the benefit of others.

-Thom
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: hari on December 03, 2008, 01:13:11 am
Once you rely on an automatic system it has to be *perfect* in all its functions, otherwise a single problem gets magnified.  I spent more time stopping LMCE from trashing my xorg.conf than I did getting my xorg.conf right (and much more time than I spent handcrafting a "single adapter-2 displays- one monitor- one TV" configuration for my previous Mythtv install).
that exit on line two took you so long?

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The core architecture of LMCE is good (router, multiroom, IR command intercept etc), but the stuff around it which tries turn it into a consumer appliance is misplaced and a burden to hobbyists trying to get LMCE running on a variety of hardware and software configurations.
I disagree. Even if the system is not yet perfect, computers are there to automate things. I don't want to manually setup all the stuff in my home. The way it works now is that the main contributors work towards having all their stuff full PnP.

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If you are lucky, LMCE would probably be a breeze to install.  If everything runs smoothly it would be amazing. But get one problem and you have to be hacking shell scripts to stop infinite loops in your filesystem.

So, IMHO LMCE needs 2 modes: appliance mode (current version), and a hobbyist mode where once it has configured it just LEAVES EVERYTHING ALONE and does not try to reconfigure X, Mythtv etc.
i've been there, there are many ways to approach a goal, and the usual sysadmin prefers his own way. That usually collides with LMCE assumptions. So funny enough, skilled people have often more problems than "regular" users as they fight the system. This was the reason why I did not really jump onto pluto. It took some time for me to realize that LMCE gives much luxury when you let do "it" the stuff like it wants.

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And it needs an approach to increasing robustness- in this case defined as the ability to cope with differetn configurations of hardware, software, and configuration (e.g. cope with having LVM filesystems, or / on RAID).
we agree on that, but we need people to engineer this.

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FInally, to become a true hub for the home it needs to have at least some strategy for high availability.  That is, if the core fails, there should be at least an easy manual way to reconfigure to get say an MD take on the core functions (esp the security, home automation parts and telephony as these are IMHO the "mission critical" functions, TV and audio are not).  This might be done with say a NAS drive, or DRBD.
we had that high availability topic recently.

I call you for one thing. You said the system fights you so much. I'd love to see your approach on a manual installation of _all_ the stuff. Without automatics. To get the same functionality that can be achieved with well tested and known to work hardware/components where the PnP stuff works.
Please write down the steps and track your time.

best regards,
Hari
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: indulis on December 03, 2008, 01:28:30 am
Thom,

The patches I have made so far are "first aid" to get the system up and running.  I've put my Xconfigure.sh changes into these forums, but this basically disables the code so it leaves my system in a running state.  Further thought and work are required to create an architected and consistent approach to changes in LMCE to address the shortfalls in my previous post.  Hence my suggestion of different "modes" for LMCE, the traditional  appliance mode and a "hacker" or "hobbyist" mode that all scripts would pay attention to.

SO, how do you suggest we advance without discussing the limitations/shortfalls?  Just start coding and hacking around?  I don't think what I've done to my LMCE is good and supportable or even in general desirable, so I won't submit the "first aid" patches (though they are in the wiki for others to use if they hit the same problems).

Talking about deficiencies so that some basic stuff gets changed is also contributing, like it or not LMCE *has* deficiencies and areas which can be improved.  It has been a battle to get it installed and up and running and stable.  It has only been a week or 2 since I managed to get stable TV tuners, rebuild the kernel, reinstall new DVB-T drivers, recompile LIRC, and got the system to where I am FINALLY able to record TV programs!

AND I've been documenting this as I can here and in the WIKI, as much as I can in the time I have available.

The other thing which I did not say in my previous post is that a failing of the LMCE community is the "fighter pilot" mentality of coders who think that no there is no real contribution apart from coding- contributing to wikis, documentations, discussions, trying to help others are not "real" contributions.  Well, a bunch of ace pilots without mechanics and refuelers and control tower crew won't get far.  I suggest that the developers take a look at the attitude presented to non-coders.  The  cries of "code it or stop complaining" are not helping.

I've been involved in a number of projects, not coding and have made the contributions I can (Oztivo, Mythtv, Linuxtv).  Most of this has been documenting and helping others, with a small amount of scripting.

There is a saying in Australian Rules Football "play the ball not the man".

So how about discussing the relevant points in my post, not just criticise the writer.
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: indulis on December 03, 2008, 01:34:09 am
I don't want to try to install everything manually, I just don't want LMCE to be overly smart and make mistakes by making simplistic assumptions.

Look at the list of things that LMCE has done to my system to fight my efforts to get it running.

Can't it be made MORE robust and MORE automated by making the code more able to cope with, say. RAID-1 root filesystems?

Hence my suggestion of "modes", one for people trying to get it working so we turn off the "fight back" functions which reconfigure stuff under the covers all the time.

I will do the changes to the UpdateMedia code so it does not recurse, I have been looking at the scripts and tryign to understand the code, when I take some leave in Jan I will look at the code again (unless a house move intervenes).   If you remember, I have previously asked for advice about whether to code changes to UpdateMedia or the script that actually does the creation of the sym links in /home/public/data/other  (that must have been the single post I've made of my 100 so far which was not complaining about LMCE :-) ) 

I didn't get a reply except "RAID is not important" and "do it the LMCE way" (ie forget about system reliability)

 The problem is that I need to understand how most of LMCE works before touching and breaking it.  This takes time- and then agreement from other developers as to how to change things.  Right now I don't understand the implications of the various appraoches I could take to make RAID work properly.  So it is unreasonable to ask for code, and consider the lack of it as "not contributing".

PS I did try the "exit 0" trick with Xconfigure.sh, but on my system LMCE just kept going back to AVwizard (or failing in some other horrible way, I don't really remember except it did not work).
PPS do you know how long it took to realise that LMCE was rewriting my xorg.conf without telling me or asking me?  I didn't expect this at all.  Easy to say "how long does it take to change 2 lines of code".  Could say the same for most code changes.  Finding out why the problem is happening generally takes the time.
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: Zaerc on December 03, 2008, 02:32:39 am
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PS I did try the "exit 0" trick with Xconfigure.sh, but on my system LMCE just kept going back to AVwizard (or failing in some other horrible way, I don't really remember except it did not work).
PPS do you know how long it took to realise that LMCE was rewriting my xorg.conf without telling me or asking me?  I didn't expect this at all

Allow me to literally quote from the wiki:
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After you do this you may experience difficulties running the AVWizard again, if so remove this line and add it back again after the wizard is finished.

Most, if not all of your perceived problems could have been avoided if you had cared to do your own homework and bought hardware that was known to work well or even had bothered to properly read the instructions and/or workarounds available.  However you instead prefer to jump to some pretty nasty conclusions about how this system is not "installable, manageable, workable and supportable", while it is perfectly obvious that you in fact choose not to follow the available advice and guidelines yourself.  Or do you really think that everyone here had to compile their own kernel to get things to work?  ::)

Another great example is the rootfs on raid you keep on whinging about, no matter how many times I point out to you how to fix that, you keep insisting that there is something wrong with UpdateMedia at every opportunity you get.  I run my rootfs on a raid just fine (using LVM even), do you hear me complain about it? 

Bottom line: we're not going to change everything around simply because you're to arrogant to listen how things are done.  And we sure don't need this sort of "help" from you with your crooked "fighter pilot mentality" analogy bullshit.
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: Murdock on December 03, 2008, 03:37:48 am
All,

I think both of you (developers and end users) make excellent points.

If I understand the developers correctly they are really wanting informed and constructive/positive criticism on the build, and from other discussions i've read they also need code based help in implementing the ideas that are posted. This project is a huge undertaking and is staffed with relatively few (as near as i can tell) resources who have the skillset to execute the necessary work required.

If I understand indulis correctly, yes he's critiquing the build and architecture, though doesn't have a great understanding of the architecture to contribute at the level the developers would like. Personally I would love to understand the more in depth working of the software architecture, though I find this difficult with the level and availability of documentation provided in the wiki.

I fully find it possible that I missed this documentation on the architecture at a more technical level, if it is available online would someone be so kind as to provide a link? I would like to make more of a contribution when making a critque (as I believe indulis would as well). If I understood more at a technical level I (as well as others) may be able to provide the technical contributions that the development staff is really looking for.

Thank you,

Ryan
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: tschak909 on December 03, 2008, 03:52:08 am
The issue is right now that this system is so massive, that we are only slowly getting the documentation written.

If you are serious about wanting to learn the architecture, then dig into the code, and more importantly, come talk to us. We are always available on #linuxmce and #linuxmce-devel on freenode. Furthermore, we have provided a chat link to us for this purpose.

Since the documentation isn't there, our options are:

* Write more of it, we are.
* Teach more of it, Again, we are. (Watch all my screencasts, and I constantly help inquiring developers)

but again, this is contingent on you digging into the code and ATTEMPTING to understand it. Pick an entry point, (start at the DCERouter logs in /var/log/pluto) and work outward. This system is a message buss, completely exposed and open. You can see precisely what is happening without needing all the documentation up front.

The critiques are quite simply made by people who do not understand the full implications of why these choices were made. Look at the code, study it, ask us questions, and we can form a basis for mutual understanding. Quite literally we have had many critics of this code-base. The ones who have stuck with it and talked to us, every single one of them have redacted their original claims. Think about that.

-Thom
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: Murdock on December 04, 2008, 02:08:18 am
Thank you Thom, I wanted to ensure I wasn't missing anything on the wiki.

  In an effort to not re-invent the wheel, I'd like to document what I learn as I learn it to help others come up to speed as well (perhaps post this in a section on the wiki?). I will start in the pluto logs and visit the chat rooms as I can. If there are any additional suggestions to help in coming up to speed please let me know.


Ryan
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: tschak909 on December 04, 2008, 03:54:13 am
Murdock,

All things start at the DCERouter, all things proxy through it. Look in its logs to see commands going from source to destination.

-Thom
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: indulis on December 07, 2008, 02:14:09 am


Allow me to literally quote from the wiki:
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After you do this you may experience difficulties running the AVWizard again, if so remove this line and add it back again after the wizard is finished.

Most, if not all of your perceived problems could have been avoided if you had cared to do your own homework and bought hardware that was known to work well or even had bothered to properly read the instructions and/or workarounds available. ...  Or do you really think that everyone here had to compile their own kernel to get things to work?  ::)

Bottom line: we're not going to change everything around simply because you're to arrogant to listen how things are done.  And we sure don't need this sort of "help" from you with your crooked "fighter pilot mentality" analogy bullshit.


Well, for a start I *did* read up on supported hardware, and it turned out that there are intermittent problems with the chipset on my motherboard and the USB chips on the DVB-T card I used, resulting in having to build a new kernel.  If LMCE ends up being 12 months behind in kernel versions then this is the sort of stuff that happens.  Notice I have not complained at all about this, I consider it part of the fun of implementing it.  And learning about it.

What I have definitely NOT enjoyed is fighting LMCE.  I would have preferred to be able to turn off the background "LMCE is silently fixing up (stuffing up) your configuration files for you".

This is a pretty simple request and I think a good idea, it'd help everyone that has hit similar problems.  I knowo it is *NOT* simple to implement but I'd at least like to get some agreement that it makes sense to be able to start building a system and fixing up problems without having to understand the whole LMCE architecture, and then trawling for workarounds to problems that are caused by LMCE actively fighting me.

And my point about LVM and RAID is that I spent a lot of energy fighting LMCE to make it work.  I don't recall seeing anything from you about how to make a configuration with a separate RAID root filesystem work.  I'll look again though.  I seem to recall the answer was to have a single FS that includes / and /home in the same filesystem.  Which I don't think is good practice, and also reinforces my suggestion that LMCE should be able to cope with many different ways that systems get set up, without disappearing into infinite recursion.

So, if I write a patch for UpdateMedia that fixes the infinite recursion issue will it get included, or will it be dumped because it does not fit in to the LMCE way of doing things (i.e. single big blob filesystem)?  There is no point wasting my time on understanding the shell scripts and modifying them if the work will just go down the drain.

Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: Zaerc on December 07, 2008, 02:38:24 am
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Well, for a start I *did* read up on supported hardware, and it turned out that there are intermittent problems with the chipset on my motherboard and the USB chips on the DVB-T card I used, resulting in having to build a new kernel.  If LMCE ends up being 12 months behind in kernel versions then this is the sort of stuff that happens.  Notice I have not complained at all about this, I consider it part of the fun of implementing it.  And learning about it.

What I have definitely NOT enjoyed is fighting LMCE.  I would have preferred to be able to turn off the background "LMCE is silently fixing up (stuffing up) your configuration files for you".

This is a pretty simple request and I think a good idea, it'd help everyone that has hit similar problems.  I knowo it is *NOT* simple to implement but I'd at least like to get some agreement that it makes sense to be able to start implementing and fixing up problems without having to understand the whole LMCE architecture, and then trawling for workarounds to problems that are caused by the

And my point about LVM and RAID is just that I spent a lot of energy fighting LMCE to make it work.  I don't recall seeing anything from you about how to make a configuration with a separate RAID / filesystem work.  I'll look again though.  I seem to recall the answer was to have a single FS that includes / and /home in the same filesystem.  Which I don't think is good practice, and also reinforces my suggestion that LMCE should be able to cope with many different ways that systems get set up, without disappearing into infinite recursion.

So, if I write a patch for UpdateMedia that fixes the infinite recursion issue will it get included, or will it be dumped because it does not fit in to the LMCE way of doing things (i.e. single big blob filesystem)?  There is no point wasting my time on understanding the shell scripts and modifying them if the work will just go down the drain.



You choose to fight the system and you choose not to listen when people tell you how to fix things, those are your choices, not our fault if they don't bring you the results you were hoping for.
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: indulis on December 07, 2008, 02:50:00 am
How is that helpful? Are you saying that the developers don't consider being able to cope with multiple filesystems on a system as a good idea? And yes, I expect that LMCE shoul dbe able to cope with such a configuration, not recurse itself into oblivion.

And did I "choose" to have LMCE rewrite bogus broken xorg.conf files over the top of my working ones?

Again I ask, if I code the workaround will it be dumped because it does not fit into the "LMCE must all be installed into a single filesystem"?

Look, the point of my original post was to point out that to improve LMCE it should be able to be more capable of coping with a variety of systems and configurations.  I think that is a good idea.  I wrote of my experiences and frustrations, some of which stemmed from what I thought were reasonable ways of setting up a system (i.e. separate root filesystem), others were a result of LMCE doing mods to my valid configuration changes.

If it is a good idea to make LMCE more flexible and robust, then we should take these experiences and see if there are some sensible changes that can be made.

I apologise if the "fighter pilot" analogy was seen as arrogant.  But it is not pleasant to hear the "code it or shut it" comments constantly from developers, because that belittles any other contributions that get made.
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: Zaerc on December 07, 2008, 03:23:56 am
How is that helpful? Are you saying that the developers don't consider being able to cope with multiple filesystems on a system as a good idea? And yes, I expect that LMCE shoul dbe able to cope with such a configuration, not recurse itself into oblivion.

Again I ask, if I code the workaround will it be dumped because it does not fit into the "LMCE must all be installed into a single filesystem"?

I dunno, but from my perspective, LinuxMCE was "coping" with multiple filesystems just fine until you came along.
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: indulis on December 07, 2008, 03:59:27 am
So how come my system with separate /, /home, /tmp etc doesn't work?  Make up your mind, you are contradicting yourself, either everything  must be installed into a single filesystem (as you recommended as  a "fix" to my problem), or LMCE works with multiple filesystems.  If you are going to attack at least get yourself a consistent story.

Apparently it is better to sling insults at me than reply to my offer to fix the problems.

PS who's arrogant now, "ace"?
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: tschak909 on December 07, 2008, 04:10:49 am
This discussion is unproductive. Stop.

indulis: If you want to provide a fix, then do so. We can answer questions in order so that you can do it. Otherwise, there is nothing we can do.

Stop wasting time. We have code to hack.

-Thom
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: indulis on December 07, 2008, 06:05:07 am
Thom- if I can get some support for a proposed approach to stop the recursion problem on my system I will look at it and fix it properly.

To date, I have 2 approaches in mind, one is to not create symlinks (or media devices?) that point to a directory closer to root than the directory which has the symlinks in it.  The other is to avoid recursions during the Updatemedia scan by checking that the directory that is about to be cd'ed to is not in the chain of directories that the symlink directory is in. This should avoid recursion.

Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: tschak909 on December 07, 2008, 06:42:06 am
ok, try it out. :)

-Thom
Title: Re: how do i remove from database - unsolved
Post by: Zaerc on December 07, 2008, 07:19:39 am
So how come my system with separate /, /home, /tmp etc doesn't work?  Make up your mind, you are contradicting yourself, either everything  must be installed into a single filesystem (as you recommended as  a "fix" to my problem), or LMCE works with multiple filesystems.  If you are going to attack at least get yourself a consistent story.

Apparently it is better to sling insults at me than reply to my offer to fix the problems.

PS who's arrogant now, "ace"?
And where exactly did I ever say everything must be installed into a single filesystem?  The only one who keeps changing his story here is you.