[mythtv-users] MythTV DB Upgrade Fails

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:43:34 -0700, you wrote:

>I'm trying to do a DB upgrade using mythconverg_restore.pl, 
>mythtv-setup, and then running mythtvfrontend.  Things appear to work 
>fine, until I run mythtvfrontend.  It upgrades the music,video sections, 
>but then displays a popup dialog that states:
>
>The server uses network protocol version 40, but this client only 
>understands version 77.  Make sure you are running compatible versions 
>of the
>
>The message is cut off at that point.  There is only an OK box. 
>Selecting that causes mythtvfrontend to crash (exit code 135) and then 
>restart, which pops the same dialog up again.  Can I just ignore this?
>
>This is an upgrade from 0.21-fixes to 0.24? (mythbuntu 11.10) -> 0.27.? 
>(mythbuntu 14.04.1).  I get the same error going from 0.21 -> 0.24, only 
>it complains about the client only understanding network protocol 63 and 
>crashes with exit code 249.
>
>Why did it not upgrade the network protocol too?
>
>Jay

I believe that 0.21 is too old for a direct upgrade to 0.27.  You have
to upgrade to an older version first.  Fortunately, this was discussed
recently - take a look at this thread:

  http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/575028