[mythtv-users] Mythtv v31 update failure

[Bill Meek]

On 3/6/20 7:59 AM, Tim Pletcher wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 5:30 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     just ran an update this morning on v31 and I got a failure on mythweb again after I got it fixed the other day. the reset of mythtv updated
>     to 2:31.0+fixes.202003051106.1460627~ubuntu18.04.1
>     console log:
>     Removing mythweb (2:31.0+fixes.202003030929.54a568d~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
>     /var/lib/dpkg/info/mythweb.postrm: 34: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mythweb.postrm: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expecting ")")
>     dpkg: error processing package mythweb (--remove):
>       installed mythweb package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 2
>     Errors were encountered while processing:
>       mythweb
>     E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> I received the same error today on my 18.04 installation with 31/fixes.
> 
> There is still an errant ;; in line 31 of the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/mythweb.postrm.  I edited this file to comment out the offending line.  
> After doing so, 'apt get upgrade' will upgrade mythweb without issue.


I'm off to a meeting, will look at this later.

Just checked and the fix to remove the ;; is still in place in MythTV's packaging tree.
That's for master and v31. I can't explain why it doesn't appear for everyone.

As to the 'php: not found' error, the php-mythtv package is required in the control
file. Need to know if php (not php5) is included in that (it appears not, or it's
getting installed after I try to use it.)

The intent of the php test is to install 'max_input_vars = 10000', which wasn't being
put in the right place. php -r 'echo PHP_MAJOR_VERSION, ".", PHP_MINOR_VERSION;’


-- 
Bill