[mythtv-users] Help running mythtv-setup

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/08/2012 01:41 PM, James Klaas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:16 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> On 03/08/2012 11:13 AM, James Klaas wrote:
>>> Hi.  My upgrade/reinstallation of MythTV seems to be going backwards.
>>> I'm a little frustrated at this point.
>>> I keep getting sidetracked by apparently irrelevant errors.
>>>
>>> I removed all the database files,


Did you do a backup of the database?  Do you still have the mysql data 
files?  If so, I /highly/ recommend doing a backup (to a safe, 
re-usable, portable SQL format) before doing anything more.  Just read 
the quick start section at:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore

>>>   I removed all the packages and tried
>>> starting over from scratch.  I reinstalled the Ubuntu packages from
>>> the mythbuntu packages using 0.25 since I've got a Ceton.
>>>
>>> When I run mythtv-setup, I get the Country/Language dialog, but
>>> there's no Language list.  Looking in the kern.log I see lots of
>>> errors about libQtCore.so.4.6.2 segfaulting.
>>> Can anyone help.  This should be as clean an install as installing from scratch.
>> This sounds more like a distro problem. You either have a bad package or
>> there is a missing dependency, as libQtcore is not a myth library.
>>
>> Maybe back up a step: save everything, nuke the disk and start again, so
>> you can *really* be sure it is 'as clean an install as installing from
>> scratch'.
> I may be doing the next best thing soon and doing a dist upgrade (I'm
> currently running 10.04 LTS), but since this is my main home server as
> well wiping the disk and starting over isn't really an option.  I may
> take a step back and just create a dedicated mythtv server.  I had
> hoped to avoid that though.
>
> Since mythtv relies on the QT libraries, it seems at least
> peripherally related.  I've seen a few other posts regarding this
> error, but there was no resolution there either.
>

Sounds like you may have old mythtv libs and new mythtv libs together on 
the same system and they aren't mixing well.

I recommend removing all installed mythtv packages, then looking for any 
/usr/lib/libmyth* or /usr/lib/mythtv (and /usr/local/lib/libmyth* or 
/usr/local/lib/mythtv ) files and then deleting them.  You can (and 
probably should) keep /usr{,/local}/share/mythtv or /etc/mythtv files.  
Then, reinstall the packages and things should work better.

Mike