[mythtv-users] Xenial, upstart/systemd and mythbackend

Jeffrey Ratcliffe jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 17:06:55 UTC 2016


On 6 October 2016 at 21:07, Peter Bennett <cats22 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On xenial everything uses systemd. You will have to change the shutdown
> commands in your mythtv-setup to use systemctl commands instead of the
> start / stop commands.

The

sudo service mythbackend start|stop|reload

still seem to work with systemd. However, the mythtv-setup script
explicitly calls the upstart init scripts

$SU_TYPE /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop

$SU_TYPE /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start

And indeed in the packaging for mythbackend, the postinst script also calls

/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start

So I think that this is a packaging problem in the ppa for Xenial, not
my mythtv setup.

However, I am having trouble reporting the problem on Launchpad.
apport crashes before it uploads the bug.

Regards

Jeff


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