[mythtv-users] Database version problem / sw versions from atrpms?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Sep 18 21:22:33 UTC 2008


On 09/18/2008 04:51 PM, Jeff Bevis wrote:
> I backed up critical info (database, config, etc.) from my backend to
> the file server, and swapped the backend disk out for another.  Then I
> reinstalled fresh from Fedora 9, and returned the data from the file
> server.  It went pretty smoothly.  In fact, the backend is up and going,
> recording programs just fine for the most part.  The database was
> updated to a later schema version automatically by mythbackend (though
> it failed cryptically when I tried to do this via mythtvsetup initially).
>
> Finally, the happy moment had arrived.  I went back to my "fresh"
> frontend, having been built a few weeks earlier and ready to go (or so I
> thought).  "mythfrontend" -- at last -- and THUD.  The frontend says the
> backend Db is *still* incompatible and needs to be updated.
...
> ====
> # Linux tomato 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Mon Aug 4 14:08:11 EDT 2008
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> ...
> MythTV Branch    : trunk
> ...
> ====
> # Linux grape 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 4 13:46:35 EDT
> 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> ...
> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-21-fixes
>   

I don't know anything about Fedora/packages/etc., but wanted to say--as 
soon as possible--that as long as grape (running -fixes) is your backend 
and tomato (running trunk) is the frontend, you're in pretty good shape 
(as long as you don't tell the trunk machine to upgrade the DB schema).

If, instead, grape (running -fixes) is your frontend and tomato (running 
trunk) is the backend, you should keep around that backup you made 
before the upgrade because it's your only path back to -fixes.  I'd 
recommend getting the backend on fixes as quickly as possible (however 
you end up doing that) and restoring the pre-update (the -fixes) backup 
and "losing" all the shows you recorded between the backup and the fix 
(you can always put those interim shows into MythVideo to watch or even 
use something like myth.rebuilddatabase.pl to import them into MythTV).

Good luck with the rest.

Mike


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