[mythtv-users] Upgrading from 0.21 to 0.23 = failure

Joe Hickey jfwd at phlobus.net
Wed Mar 14 14:10:24 UTC 2012


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at workshy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:31:14PM +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>> On 14 March 2012 23:13, Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at workshy.org> wrote:
>> > They all have entries in channum.  Some part of the process is failing,
>> > but with no indication of what that might be in the logs, I'm left
>> > staring at code and database schemas.
>>
>> I would delete all your channels in the channel editor, and restart
>> all from the beginning using 0.24
>
> As I said, I have already done that.  I am left with no obvious options
> other than to drop the whole database and start from scratch.  I don't
> really want to that, because I don't want to lose my archive of
> recordings.  If it works, I'm stuck with a bunch of video files with no
> metadata, unless there's a way to export and re-import that data.
>

Sounds like the database got messed up during the upgrade.  If I were
you I would just restore the 0.21 database from a backup and start
over.  I assume you did back it up before starting, right?  (Rule
#1..)


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