[mythtv-users] From panicked to puzzled

[Mark Perkins]

> On 6 Jul 2015, at 11:34 am, "Rick" <rbonafied at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> So I decided this long weekend was the right time to upgrade the OS on
> my DVR.  In hindsight, this may not have been the best decision.  :)
> 
> I went from Mageia 3 to Mageia 5 and from 32bit to 64bit.  No hardware
> was changed.
> 
> I have always compiled from the fixes branch myself.  It was both fun
> and an interesting learning experience over the years. However, today
> proved to be very stressful.  As usual, I updated my git repo, installed
> all the '-devel' packages for Mageia 5 and started the build.  The build
> of the backend completed without issue.
> 
> I installed the backend binaries to their usual location (/usr/bin) and
> brought it up.  Nothing unusual there.  Now it was time to install
> mythweb and the frontend.  I decided to try mythweb first... that was
> the first sign of trouble.  Mythweb took forever to show up and when it
> did, it gave a MYTHPROTO empty error and an unknown TIMEZONE error.
> Very strange!
> 
> Then I started the frontend.  Same weirdness.  It took forever to bring
> up the recordings screen and when it did, there was nothing on it.  The
> logs also showed a problem with the PROTO version being empty.
> 
> I confirmed the database connections were fine and confirmed rows were
> returned from queries.  As one more bonus, I decided to start the
> frontend on my laptop.  The laptop hadn't been upgraded so that was a
> good place to get an objective result.  Yep, you guessed it.  Same deal.
> The laptop frontend couldn't determine the PROTO version either.
> 
> This is when the panic set in.  The family was getting hostile.  (not
> really but they would in time)
> 
> Then I had a moment of clarity.  Since mageia's repos were reasonably up
> to date, I decided to install the repo version of the backend.  It came
> up fine (as did before).  Then the real test, I tried my laptop frontend
> again.  IT WORKED!  Even though this wasn't my desired end state, at
> least I knew I could get a backend running on the new OS.
> 
> So the real question is, what was the original problem and how do I fix
> it when I compile my own?
> 
> Regards,
> R
> _______________________________________________

What MythTV version were you originally running and what version were you moving to? What steps did you take to upgrade the database?