[mythtv-users] Bugs(?) creating Manual Schedules for daily channel record in 0.27

[David Engel]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 12:24:59PM +0000, NickS wrote:
> > Your problems sound so bizarre, that I'd look for version and schema
> > mismatches first among the MythTV binaries, libraries and mythweb.
> > Regarding your last comment, it looks like mythweb has misled you.
> > For manual recordings, the subtitle is always replaced with the
> > scheduled recording starttime.
> > 
> >
>  David
> 
> Thanks David. Following your advice I've been keeping an eye on 
> versions/updates over the last couple of weeks. Here are the results of 
> running   dpkg -l "*myth*" | sort -k 3,3   :
> 
> 
> ii  mythbuntu-log-grabber                0.10-0ubuntu2    
> ii  mythbuntu-lirc-generator             0.26-0ubuntu1    
> ii  mythbuntu-control-centre             0.63-0ubuntu2    
> ii  mythbuntu-common                     0.67    
> ii  mythbuntu-desktop                    0.77
> ii 
>  mythbuntu-lightdm-theme              1.01
> ii  mythbuntu-default-settings           1.08
> ii  xbmc-pvr-mythtv-cmyth                1.6.10-2precise
> rc  libmyth-0.25-0                       2:0.25.3+fixes.20130813.b5adf03-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythtv                               2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii 
>  mythweb                              2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythgame                             2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythmusic                            2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythtv-dbg                           2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii 
>  php-mythtv                           2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythgallery                          2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythtv-common                        2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  libmyth-0.27-0                       2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii 
>  libmyth-python                       2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  libmythtv-perl                       2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythtv-backend                       2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythtv-database                      2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii 
>  mythtv-frontend                      2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythtv-backend-master                2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythtv-theme-mythbuntu               2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythtv-transcode-utils               2:0.27.0+fixes.20140202.4ee21a4-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
> ii  mythbuntu-bare-client                2.5
> 
> 
> I still get the same strange behaviour that I originally reported, and I 
> can only guess that maybe something went wrong with the update of the 
> database contents from 0.25 to 0.27. Since I can't figure out what's 
> going on, I may end up having to do a fresh install ation of 0.27 so 
> long as I can find some way of restoring all the details of my 
> recordings (I hope that's as straightforward as restoring the "recorded" table with updated channel id's).

Here's something else to try first, if the Ubuntu packages will let
you do it.  Removed all of the myth packages *without* removing the
mythconverg database.  Then, make sure you don't have any stray myth
binaries or libraries, especially under /usr/local.

David
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David Engel
david at istwok.net