[mythtv-users] From panicked to puzzled

[Frank Phillips]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Rick <rbonafied at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/05/2015 10:38 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
> >
> >
> >> 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!
> >>
>

What do you mean by installed the binaries? You can't just copy binaries
from a build directory because they need the libmyth* libraries that are
built with them. If you're going to compile your own MythTV, it's best to
create a package and then install that.
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