[mythtv-users] Proper way/user to run mythconverg_restore.pl when restoring old database on clean install

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 20:11:50 UTC 2017


Hoi Ian,

Thursday, September 28, 2017, 9:32:37 PM, you wrote:

> Doing the clean install method after upgrading my system to 16.04.


> I ran the following command line to install the old database:


> sudo -u mythtv /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_restore.pl --verbose
> --drop_database --create_database  --directory /home/mythtv
> --filename mythconverg-1317-20170928112702.sql.gz



> It fails with an unable to connect to database and this environment:


> Configuring environment:
>   -    username: mythtv
>   -        HOME: /home/ian
>   - MYTHCONFDIR: /home/ian/.mythtv


> Parsing configuration files:
>   - checking: /home/ian/.mythtv/config.xml
>   - checking: /usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt
>   - checking: /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt
>   - checking: /usr/local/etc/mythtv/mysql.txt
>   - checking: /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt
>   - checking: /home/ian/.mythtv/mysql.txt
>   - checking: mysql.txt
>   - checking: /home/ian/.mythtv/mysql.txt
>   - checking: /home/ian/.mythtv/backuprc


> Doing a 'locate config.xml' it's only at these locations:


> /etc/mythtv/config.xml
> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml
> /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/config_files/config.xml
> /usr/share/mythtv/config.xml


> How do I get the command line to ignore /home/ian and /home/ian/.mythtv?


> Thanks!


Oops I didn't correctly read your command line. It will look in the
users home directory, so obviously the user mythtv has /home/ian as
the home directory. Which is weird as it probably also is the home
directory of the user ian.

Tot mails,
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