[mythtv-users] Backend and frontend out of step - what best to do?

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Sat Feb 1 17:34:38 UTC 2014


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Henry Law <news at lawshouse.org> wrote:
> My backend and frontend both run Ubuntu, but I installed the backend from
> the Mythbuntu ISO, whereas the frontend I just installed mythbuntu on the
> basic 12.04 build.
>
> Now, largely as a result of my not really knowing what I was doing (I'm
> learning Myth, though I'm reasonably skilled in Linux) the front end is
> running Mythtv 0.26 (2:0.26.1+fixes.20140114.0579bb9-0ubuntu0mythbuntu1) and
> the backend 0.25 (2:0.25.2+fixes.20120802.46cab93-0ubuntu1).  And now every
> time I start the front end it complains that the database schema is out of
> date, but that it's not allowed to upgrade the database.  I have run
> mythtv-setup on the backend because I thought that was supposed to upgrade
> the DB automatically, but I must be mistaken because it doesn't.
>
> So ... the simplest thing seems to be to upgrade the backend to match the
> frontend, but normal package management doesn't offer 0.26 on the backend
> (presumably because it's working off the Mythbuntu repos).
>
> Can I download Mythtv 0.26 and apply it to the backend?  I could rebuild the
> whole thing (it's very much a development system at present) but it means
> pulling it off its shelf and finding somewhere to put it where I can get a
> monitor and a keyboard into it ...
>
> Other suggestions on what to do, bearing in mind my relative novice status
> in Mythtv, would be welcome.
>
> --
>
> Henry Law            Manchester, England
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Fire up mythbuntu-control-centre and select the 0.26 repo on your
backend. We release 0.26 and 0.27 for for 12.04, so you can use our
repos for that. After switching the repo, you'll need to update as
usual (apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade)

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos


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