[mythtv-users] help! Ubuntu upgrade ate my mythtv

[Thomas Mashos]

Honestly I would have just backed up and did a reinstall to 12.04. Going
though that many upgrades is bound to have some issue.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Dan Kressin <dkressin at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I did a series of Ubuntu / Mythtv upgrades this weekend on my combined
> FE/BE.  Started as 7.04 / .20.2 which had been running great since being
> installed when those were current.  I used do-release-upgrade to go to 7.10
> (.21) and further to 8.04 (.21+fixes), testing my setup after each with no
> problems.  Last night I went the next step to 10.04 (.23+fixes) and at the
> end I answered 'yes' to remove obsolete packages.  I saw a few myth
> packages in the list, but assumed they were leftovers from .21+fixes.
> Apparently not since it removed mythtv-backend and mythtv-database, as well
> as a few inconsequential plug-ins (mythnews, mythweather, etc).
>
> mysql is still installed (now at 5.1.70), mythv user and homedir still
> exist, as do my recordings.
>
> So my questions:
> 1) Can I simply "apt-get install mythtv-backend" and be whole?  What about
> mythtv-database?
> 2) How can I determine whether mythconverg still exists and is at the
> correct version?  (latest backup file I have is
> mythconverg-1214-20130805063609.sql.gz)
> 3) Is there anything else I should be wary about?
>
> Here's the output of "dpkg -l | grep myth":
> rc  libmyth-0.20
> 0.20.2-0ubuntu10.1
> rc  libmyth-0.21-0
> 0.21.0+fixes18207-0ubuntu4~hardy1
> ii  libmyth-0.23-0
> 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
> ii  libmyth-python
> 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
> ii  mythgallery
> 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
> rc  mythtv-backend
> 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
> ii  mythtv-common
> 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
> rc  mythtv-database
> 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
> ii  mythtv-doc
> 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
> ii  mythtv-frontend
> 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
> ii  mythvideo
> 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
> ii  mythweb
> 0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
> rc  ubuntu-mythtv-frontend
> 0.21.0+fixes18207-0ubuntu4~hardy1
>
> I seriously appreciate any help in getting the old boy going again.
>
> Thanks,
> -Dan
>
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