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

[Peter Bennett]

On 10/08/2016 01:06 PM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
> 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
> _______________________________________________
Are you installing from the mythbuntu ppa? That has the latest and
correct version. The ubuntu repository may have an out of date package.

See https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/+archive/ubuntu/0.28