[mythtv-users] Help running mythtv-setup

[Kenni Lund]

Den 09/03/2012 14.57 skrev "James Klaas" <jklaas at appalachian.dyndns.org>:
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:47 PM, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
> >
> > On 09/03/2012, at 2:16 AM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org 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, 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.
> >
> > >From your postings it would seem that you are not a wizz that can
install a myth system with his eyes closed so why would you be playing with
the 0.25-beta?
> > Standard (say 10.04 cause I've done that) ubuntu JustWorks when you
install the myth packages.
> > I've not tried but am confident that mythbuntu makes it very easy too.
> >
> > Once you have a working 0.24 system THEN get bold and play
> > Using your ProductionSystem as a play ground will cause scratched knees
YMMV
> >
> > James
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>
> I am actually quite experienced with Myth, I just haven't had an
> active system for a few years.  Why take a condescending attitude
> James, if you're not going to offer a constructive suggestion?  It's
> very irritating.
>
> I'll be trying what Michael Watson said:
>
> > ... setting up a Backend only (No Frontend).  I found that I needed to
install the frontend package
> > before I could set the Country/Language properly.)
>
> Unfortunately it's things like this that also irritate me, I shouldn't
> have to install the frontend to configure a backend only.  You can't
> have mythweather without the front end either.  Why would I need to do
> that at all on a backend-only system with mythweather on the web
> interface.  I'm willing to deal with quirks like this, but if I don't
> know about them, it's pointless.  This essentially a bare install.
> Whether the software is "beta" or not (the language issue happened in
> the 0.24 packages too), it shouldn't happen on a bare install.

You can't really call it a clean install if you're running with an old (and
partly broken) database and haven't cleaned out your ~/.mythtv directories.

Best regards
Kenni
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