[mythtv-users] Frontend problem on new Macbook Air

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/17/2013 05:47 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 17 June 2013 15:50, Alan Chandler wrote:
>> The other question is WHY is it trying to back up the database? This
>> frontend is supposed to be just a slave frontend and the database isn't
>> local to it, yet it is acting like it is.
> because it's always done that way
>
> prior upgrading the database, it attempts to make a backup. If the
> backup fails then the upgrade won't occur.

Actually, the upgrade should occur even in the event of a DB backup 
failure, assuming the user says to continue after the popup that says, 
"This cannot be un-done, so having a database backup would be a good 
idea," instead of choosing to exit.  That said, we recommend users never 
upgrade the database without a backup--so if the automatic backup 
creation fails, you should only upgrade if you manually created a backup 
yourself.

Though I'll admit I didn't read the whole thread, it sounded like you 
were saying something about the Qt-based (versus mythui) screens 
(including the Schema Wizard upgrade popups) not working properly on the 
Mac client, so it's quite possible that we always get the "Exit" 
response on the Mac client or something.

Mike