<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 May 2010 22:11, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Jason Ward <<a href="mailto:jasonfward@gmail.com">jasonfward@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Anyone with other ideas or help?<br>
><br>
> On 30 April 2010 23:45, Jason Ward <<a href="mailto:jasonfward@gmail.com">jasonfward@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 30 April 2010 23:25, Nick Rout <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Jason Ward <<a href="mailto:jasonfward@gmail.com">jasonfward@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> ><br>
>>><br>
>>> If you are having to create directories that should be there, I am<br>
>>> wondering if you are getting everything installed. Are you using the<br>
>>> mythbuntu CD or are you installing ubuntu then putting mythbuntu on<br>
>>> top of it?<br>
>>><br>
>>> If the latter, what exactly did you install? It should be<br>
>>> mythbuntu-desktop, if you install that then everything else should be<br>
>>> brought in as a dependency.<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> It's the Mythbuntu 10.04 CD image I downloaded last night from here<br>
>> <a href="http://www.mythbuntu.org/10.04/release" target="_blank">http://www.mythbuntu.org/10.04/release</a><br>
>> I've been looking at the errors reported in log, it reminds of a Unix<br>
>> system I was supposed to install many years ago (circa 1989) that would<br>
>> install and run until it was switched off. On powering back on the system<br>
>> would claim various random system components were not installed. After much<br>
>> digging and talking to Compaq tech support (and about 1 month in time) it<br>
>> turned out that if you had a particular Compaq Machine, with a particular<br>
>> BIOS version, with a particular Conner hard drive, with a particular<br>
>> firmware version and you just happened to install the flavour of Unix with a<br>
>> particular file system that I was installing, then after a cold boot there<br>
>> was an error that in effect randomly deleted files.<br>
>> The reason that comes to mind, is because I have had the system working,<br>
>> and then whilst I do nothing notable, it stops working.<br>
>> Maybe I should try a different distro? Any suggestions on which?<br>
>> Jason<br>
>><br>
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</div></div>Is your machine getting the same IP address and hostname every time it<br>
boots? A mythbackend really needs a fixed IP. You can do that from the<br>
machine's setup OR you can tell your DHCP server to give it the same<br>
address every time. Many settings are based on hostname, and by the<br>
look of your initial email you are getting different things happening<br>
each time you boot - an indication you might not be getting the same<br>
settings each time.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Yeah, I use DHCP, but have set it so that every MAC gets the same IP over and over again, so I get the benefits of DHCP and the benefits of fixed IP. </div>
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