[mythtv-users] Ubuntu/Mythbuntu update problem

[Damian]

On 17/05/2012 23:05, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 05/17/2012 02:13 PM, Damian wrote:
> ...
>> I can't bare the thought of backing up the database and restoring it 
>> after restarting,
> > mainly because the database always seems to be the thing
>> that stings me badly!
>
> I suggest the following error is what needs to be concentrated on.
>
>    sudo mythbackend -v most --user mythtv --nodblog
>
>    mythbackend: symbol lookup error: 
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libva-x11.so.1:
>    undefined symbol: fool_postp
>
> Please do this (its slightly different than what I asked you off-list:)
>
>    dpkg -l libva-x11-1
>
> and post the response here.
Hi Bill,

Here's the response to that command:

$ dpkg -l libva-x11-1
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 77904 
package 'virtualbox-3.0':
  error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid 
character in revision number
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 77905 
package 'virtualbox-3.0':
  error in Config-Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid 
character in revision number
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 
84640 package 'virtualbox-3.0':
  error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid 
character in revision number
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| 
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libva-x11-1    1.0.15-4       Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux 
-- X11

>
> Remembering that the backend won't run, the output of this too:
>
>    strings `locate -b '\mythbackend'` | grep '0.2[3-5]'

libmythtv-0.25.so.0
libmythupnp-0.25.so.0
libmythbase-0.25.so.0
libmyth-0.25.so.0
libmythmetadata-0.25.so.0
libmythservicecontracts-0.25.so.0
0.25.20120506-1
fixes/0.25
v0.25-84-g9ccfac1

Does that get us any closer?
Damian