[mythtv-users] More hours of messing with mythtv yield zero result

[Phil Wild]

My situation is slightly different from yours in that I am not
installing mythtv onto a previously built environment.

Can I perhaps suggest mythbuntu if you have the option of starting
from scratch...

I am also new to Myth and have done a full install twice with no
issues whatsoever...

I have been very pleased with just how simple the installation was...

Cheers

Phil

2009/1/14 Igor Chudov <igor at chudov.com>:
> I have Ubuntu Intrepid and installed mythtv by means of apt-get.
>
> I have spent dozens of hours on this already and there is no end to an
> incredible mess.
>
> The previous problem was, apparently, that mysql setup was all messed
> up and log on to mysql was not set up properly. But mythtv was saying
> all kinds of nonsense like "check that mysql server is running"
> instead of plainly saying that it could not log on.
>
> Basically nothing works and mythtv produces some incomprehensible
> error messages (or no messages) that never lead to anything
> productive. It is like fighting through a thick forest.
>
> The latest one, apparently, is that when I do
>
> /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start
>
> it prints a sadly stupid message "No setting found for this machine's
> BackendServerIP".
>
> I just spend 20 minutes googling for this message trying to find just
> where, in what file is that setting set. First of all, the script
> could say that.
>
> I start that /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend as root. I ran mythtv-setup
> as user "tv". I changed /etc/default/mythtv-backend user setting to
> tv.
>
> "tv"'s config.xml has zero mention of "BackendServerIP".
> <Configuration>
>  <UPnP>
>    <UDN>
>      <MediaRenderer>a7fd99e7-4fe4-4bb8-9029-2d0758b88cbc</MediaRenderer>
>    </UDN>
>    <MythFrontend>
>      <DefaultBackend>
>        <DBHostName>localhost</DBHostName>
>        <DBUserName>mythtv</DBUserName>
>        <DBPassword>crap0</DBPassword>
>        <DBName>mythconverg</DBName>
>        <DBPort>0</DBPort>
>      </DefaultBackend>
>    </MythFrontend>
>  </UPnP>
> </Configuration>
>
> I have been a linux user since 1995 and admin many systems at home and
> at work, colocated servers, all sorts of servers, desktops and
> laptops.
>
> With the possible exception of PulseAudio, mythtv takes the prize for
> being the most user unfriendly system, where finding solutions to most
> obvious problems is almost impossible.
>
> I will continue messing with it, mostly because I have little choice,
> but I gotta say I have not yet seen anything nearly as bad.
>
> And no, I am not going to install "mythbuntu" (using then Ubuntu
> Hardy). I tried and it was by far the worst experience. Right now I
> have everything working perfectly except mythtv. With "mythbuntu", I
> had mythtv not working and everything else was in a not so good shape
> either.
>
> i
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>



-- 
Tel: 0400 466 952
Fax: 0433 123 226
email: philwild AT gmail.com