[mythtv-users] Upgrade issues.

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Mar 29 12:39:37 UTC 2009


On 03/29/2009 07:46 AM, Marc Tousignant wrote:
>>> Yep, Marc, you're running a system (and I'll lay odds it's a Gentoo 
>>> system) where your DB server was misconfigured, so all the data getting 
>>> written into your DB was corrupted when you were using 0.21-fixes and below.
>>>
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Fixing_Corrupt_Database_Encoding
>> You're right, its Gentoo.
>> And I'm reading the article now... even after the update to 22 looks like my
>> database is setup wrong.
>>     
...
>> Server characterset:    utf8
>> Db     characterset:    utf8
>> Client characterset:    utf8
>> Conn.  characterset:    utf8
...
>> Gonna try to fix now.
> Ok I misread it, it looks like it is setup correctly now.

Right.  After the upgrade the above information is fine.  Basically, 
with 0.21-fixes and below, the server configuration must be done a 
specific way.  With trunk, Myth works regardless of configuration.

Mike


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