[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 14.04 fresh install trouble restoring old database

[Marlon Buchanan]

>________________________________
> From: blind Pete <0123peter at gmail.com>
>To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> 
>Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2014 6:29 PM
>Subject: [mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 14.04 fresh install trouble restoring old    database
> 
>
>Hi, 
>
>I've just done several fresh installations of Mythbuntu 14.04.1
>LTS Trusty Tahr.  There have been a few puzzles to solve.  After
>fumbling through most of them, this one has me stumped.  
>
>$ /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_restore.pl
>--directory /mnt/tv/mythbuntu/db_backups   --filename
>mythbuntu-system-backup_PPlive_20141118-0900_MBE_YESDB.tar.gz
>
>ERROR: Unable to do a full restore. The database contains data.
>
>MythTV 0.28 seems to be working quite happily, as it was on Mythbuntu
>12.04 Precise Pangolin, but it does not want to look at the old
>database.  
>
>The things that I have done include; 
>calling the machine "PPlive" again, not "TTLive", 
>lots of playing with passwords in ~/.mythtv/*.  
>DBPassword is set to what it was on the old installation.  
>
>In config.xml what is Password for as distinct from DBPassword?
>
>From previous attempts doing a restore from Mythbuntu Control Centre
>stops things from working.  
>
>-- 
>testing
>bP



I think you need to drop the existing database created by the installation first. Add

--drop_database --create_database


args to mythconverg_restore.pl