<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Gary Buhrmaster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" target="_blank">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Jerry Rubinow <<a href="mailto:jerrymr@gmail.com">jerrymr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
.....<br>
<span class="">> mfdb seems to have some shortcomings that could prevent this from happening<br>
> in the first place and/or make it easier to diagnose. Are you saying that<br>
> these are fixed in a more recent version?<br>
<br>
</span>Yes, and in 299141e0a (around 16 months ago)<br>
this was addressed (and at that revision, there<br>
is also additional logging).<br>
<br>
To paraphrase Mr. Santayana, those that fail<br>
to upgrade regularly to the current fixes level<br>
are doomed to experience all the known issues<br>
all over again.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Gary:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I had done a clean mythbuntu install a few weeks ago and assumed (I know) that it would install the current fixes, and didn't realize what I was running was that old. So I just did a big software upgrade, with some trepidation (because according to Mr. Antisantayana, big upgrades can sometimes break things). But the system still boots and I'm running 0.27.5, so it looks like it went fine.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In any case, no disrespect intended to the devs with my comment about the bugs in that old version of mfdb, and I was prepared to write a patch if needed.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Michael: typo on my part; I meant --logpath.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Jerry</div></div>