[mythtv-users] mythconverg_backup.pl vs. mysqldump

[Karl Newman]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 6:31 AM, DryHeat122 . <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, after some investigation I have found that all my config.xml files,
> including the one that I think mythtv is actually using, are 0 bytes.  How
> this happened I have absolutely no clue.  I was doing nothing other than
> playing recordings for years when everything went south.  Not only this db
> issue, but can no longer connect to my HDPVR.
>
> It is an older version (mythbuntu 12.04) and mysql.txt is still there.
> mysqlcheck shows no problem with the tables.  But since mysqldump will back
> up the database, I'm just going to do that and install mythbuntu 16.04
> rather than trying to salvage this install. It will be less work I think,
> and the updgrade is way overdue anyway.
> Thanks for the input!
>
> There was a bug/race condition in an older version of mythtv (0.26-early
0.27?) which caused the 0-length config files. One workaround was to set
the file to read-only, but then mythtv couldn't update the file. My config
was very static so the workaround was fine for me.

Karl
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