[mythtv-users] OS Upgrade problems

[Piers Kittel]

Hello all,

My current setup is:

Debian Etch backend
Mac Mini frontend running OS X
PowerMac frontend running OS X
Diskless frontend running Debian Etch

all running 0.20 downloaded from www.mythtv.org's download page.  The  
OS X packages were obtained from the snider pad.

My problem is the diskless frontend, the other 3 works reasonably  
OK.  I upgraded the server from Sarge to Etch without any problems  
and the OS X frontends worked fine.  The diskless frontend that was  
running Debian Sarge failed to work after the server upgrade, I  
suspected a version mismatch between the SQL driver between the  
backend and the frontend.  I decided to upgrade the diskless frontend  
to Debian Etch, and after a lot of problems, have gotten it to a  
working state, but MythTV fails to connect to the server.  On  
starting, it spews a lot of "QSqlQuery::exec: database not open"  
errors and then show the setup wizard, which already has the correct  
values in - I compared it with the OS X frontends, they all match up  
exactly, and then I complete the wizard, it then exits with a final  
"QSqlQuery::exec: database not open".

What am I doing wrong, and how do I fix it?

Here's a snippet of the output from the frontend:

2007-08-12 12:16:17.277 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
2007-08-12 12:16:17.309 DPMS is active.
2007-08-12 12:16:17.319 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-08-12 12:16:17.320 Unable to connect to database!
2007-08-12 12:16:17.320 No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:17.378 DB Error (KickDatabase):
Query was:
SELECT NULL;
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:17.433 Unable to connect to database!
2007-08-12 12:16:17.434 No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:17.488 DB Error (KickDatabase):
Query was:
SELECT NULL;
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:17.544 Database not open while trying to load  
setting: GuiVidModeResolution
2007-08-12 12:16:17.545 Unable to connect to database!
2007-08-12 12:16:17.545 No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:17.600 DB Error (KickDatabase):

<snip>

Query was:
SELECT NULL;
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:30.024 Database not open while trying to load  
setting: Language
2007-08-12 12:16:30.028 Unable to connect to database!
2007-08-12 12:16:30.028 No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:30.084 DB Error (KickDatabase):
Query was:
SELECT NULL;
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:30.140 Database not open while trying to save  
setting: Language
2007-08-12 12:16:30.143 Unable to connect to database!
2007-08-12 12:16:30.144 No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:30.200 DB Error (KickDatabase):
Query was:
SELECT NULL;
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:32.342 Unable to connect to database!
2007-08-12 12:16:32.343 No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:32.396 DB Error (KickDatabase):
Query was:
SELECT NULL;
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-08-12 12:16:32.452 Failed to init MythContext, exiting.

Nothing comes up in the backend's logs, not even if I use  
"mythbackend -v all" which indicates to me that the frontend has  
problems with the database driver...?  The frontend is able to access  
the Internet, and the backend is also the NFS server for the  
diskless's frontend files.

Thanks very much for your help in advance!

Regards - Piers