[mythtv-users] JYA release repo + jaunty problems with mythbackend starting

[David Asher]

On Jun 30, 2010, at 7:41 AM, Jack Perveiler wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:49 AM, David Asher <asherml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Jun 30, 2010, at 12:42 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, June 30, 2010, David Asher <asherml at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jun 29, 2010, at 9:39 PM, David Asher wrote:
> >>
> >>> It looks like the JYA release mythtv-backend package on jaunty now tries to use upstart to start the job (/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend is GONE).
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately mythtv-backend doesn't start for me.  When I try to do it by hand I get:
> >>>
> >>> $ sudo start mythtv-backend
> >>> start: Unknown job: mythtv-backend
> >>> $
> >>>
> >>> Can any one help me?  I have NO idea how upstart works.  Pointers to what to look at would be great.  I did check that upstart was installed:
> >>>
> >>> $ aptitude search upstart
> >>> i   upstart                                               - event-based init daemon
> >>> i   upstart-compat-sysv                                   - compatibility for System-V-like init
> >>> i   upstart-logd                                          - boot logging daemon
> >>>
> >>> JYA, did you intend to switch the 9.04 mythtv-backend package over to upstart?
> >>>
> >>> Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> David.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Replying to myself to provide a little more information.  /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf DOES exist, but I still can't get upstart to recognize mythtv-backend as a valid job.
> >>
> >> Any way to get "start" to give me some info about why it doesn't think there is a job named mythtv-backend.  the man page doesn't help.
> >>
> >> David.
> >>
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> >
> > Why not simply doing /etc/initial.d/mythtv-backend start ?
> 
> Because the mythtv-backend package no longer installs it.  It is GONE.  (assuming you meant /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend)
> 
> David.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm on 9.10 and I still have an /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend script, although it's definitely tailored for upstart usage.  I can send it to you if you like, but dpkg says it comes from package mythtv-backend:
> 
> dpkg -S /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend 
> mythtv-backend: /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend 
> 
> To see if your package thinks it contains the script:
> 
> dpkg-query -L mythtv-backend | grep /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend 
> 
> That should at least tell you if it was removed from the package or if something else removed it from your system when you weren't looking.

I did that.  It is gone.

The package only contains the /etc/init.d directory, with nothing in it:

$ dpkg-query -L mythtv-backend | grep /etc
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/config_files/etc.security.msec.perm.local
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/config_files/etc.logrotate.d.mythbackend
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/config_files/etc.logrotate.d.mythfrontend
/etc
/etc/logrotate.d
/etc/logrotate.d/mythtv-backend
/etc/init
/etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf
/etc/init.d
/etc/network
/etc/network/if-up.d
/etc/network/if-up.d/mythtv-backend.if-up.d
/etc/default/mythtv-backend
/etc/udev/rules.d/41-mythtv-permissions.rules

This is using the JYA release jaunty repository (23-fixes).  It looks like testing has transitioned to a trunk:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/avenard.list
deb http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos jaunty release

David.