Me-TV fails to open, complaining about epg.xml

[David D Short]

Me-TV worked yesterday, but today it won't start. It gives me this error on the command line:

<quote>
Me TV-Message: 28/09/08 22:22:36 - Me TV Version: 0.5.17
Me TV-Message: 28/09/08 22:22:36 - Loading glade file '/usr/share/me-tv/glade/me-tv.glade'
Me TV-Message: 28/09/08 22:22:36 - Loading EPG from '/home/erin/.me-tv/epg.xml'
/home/erin/.me-tv/epg.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
/home/erin/.me-tv/epg.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

^

(me-tv:7366): Me TV-CRITICAL **: Exception message: 'Failed to open XML document '/home/erin/.me-tv/epg.xml''
Me TV-Message: 28/09/08 22:22:36 - Exception in void Application::init(): Failed to open XML document '/home/erin/.me-tv/epg.xml'
Me TV-Message: 28/09/08 22:22:37 - Terminating application normally
</quote>

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Me TV must have terminated unexpectedly (either a crash or system halt). The EPG file was probably only half written. Delete it and start again.

[David D Short (chameleondave)]

Ah, I had done "sudo apt-get purge me-tv", so I assumed that all such things had been cleared out.

~/.me-tv/epg.xml was blank. I've now deleted it, and Me-TV starts.

Perhaps you could fix this bug by making Me-TV treat empty files as non-existent.

Thanks.

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

You'll need to talk to the libxml2 guys to get that fixed, this error message is from that library,

    parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

Also, 0.6 doesn't use XML files so the issue is already fixed.