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

[Ian Evans]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Should I just copy the config.xml that was created in /home/mythtv/.mythtv
during setup to /home/ian/.mythtv?

Running out to corner for coffee. Will be able to respond again in about
10min. :-)
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