[mythtv-users] MythExport

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Daryl,

Friday, January 30, 2015, 2:59:02 PM, you wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>
> wrote:

>> On 30/01/15 03:23, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Anthony Giggins
>>> <seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I imagine that "sudo apt-get install mythexport" would fail similarly
>>>> unless
>>>> I make corrections somewhere ?mkdir? maybe?
>>>> I've drag n dropped files out of mythtv before but it is anything but
>>>> elegant. Can anyone enlighten me as to how to make corrections which
>>>> would
>>>> allow me to install mythexport and there by move files properly?  TIA
>>>> Daryl.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> you dont mention what version of ubunutu/mythbuntu your running (I'm
>>>> guessing Trusty (14.04) from the version its installing, you could
>>>> download
>>>> the package from
>>>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/amd64/mythexport/download
>>>>
>>>> and extract the files manually, perhaps the installation script has
>>>> invalid
>>>> mkdir syntax
>>>>
>>>>
>>> No, it's likely at some point he fed it an empty dir string. At least
>>> that is what the developer told me.
>>>
>>> Try this.
>>>
>>> "sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythexport"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Um, at what point during any package install do you get offered a prompt
>> to enter a directory? I can't think of a single one offhand.
>>
>> The package is broken. Even if a path /was/ required, a suitable default
>> ought to have been supplied.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mike Perkins
>>
>>
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> I think we're making progress, but during the removal I noticed these:

> dpkg: warning: while removing mythexport, directory
> '/etc/apache2/sites-available' not empty so not removed
> dpkg: warning: while removing php5-json, directory
> '/etc/php5/mods-available' not empty so not removed

> and at the end of the process it did not say "failed" but:

> Setting up mythexport (2.2.4-0ubuntu2) ...
> mkdir: missing operand
> Try 'mkdir --help' for more information.
> dpkg: error processing package mythexport (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.5) ...
> Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

> and finally, clutching at straws here, is there any relevance to this line,
> it stuck out:

>  * Starting web server apache2

> AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified
> domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to
> suppress this message
>  *

If you're satisfied with the webserver (with mythweb) only being
available through localhost, you can ignore it. Else add to the top of
your apache configfile in /etc/apache2/:
ServerName <your local ip-number>

> Also different with this attempt, as the process began three grey screens
> appeared, a " things have changed" screen  a "find out more at this link"
> screen and a "provide path of export" screen. Still this message persists
> when I sudo apt-get -f install":

> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
> [sudo] password for daryl:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up mythexport (2.2.4-0ubuntu2) ...
> mkdir: missing operand
> Try 'mkdir --help' for more information.
> dpkg: error processing package mythexport (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  mythexport
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

> any other ideas?




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