[mythtv-users] Upgrading Ubuntu

[Nicolas Will]

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 01:50 -0700, Peter Loron wrote:
> On Nov 1, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Dave Pearson wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Nordstrand wrote:
> >>
> >> Don't want to put you off but my upgrade to 9.10 has been abysmal.  
> >> The
> >> update process went fine except for MySQL which failed to upgrade and
> >> refused to start. No matter what I did (even after MANY Google  
> >> searches) I
> >> could not get it working which is not a good situation for the master
> >> backend server. So I have been copying all recordings off the drive  
> >> along
> >> with every configuration file I can think of and am currently doing  
> >> a full
> >> install. Luckily I took a MySQL backup before doing anything.
> >>
> >> At this point I am unhappy with the Ubuntu upgrade process, making  
> >> me dread
> >> any future updates....
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Bruce
> >>
> >>
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> > I had the same problem with the mysql-server-5.1 upgrade failing. I  
> > eventually got it to work by editing the my.cnf file and commenting  
> > out the skip-bdb line.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Dave.
> 
> I did a (non-Myth) upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 at work, including MySQL  
> (whatever version 9.04 installed). The installer asked and I told it  
> (after looking at the diff) to use the packaged my.cnf. No issues.

Hehehe...

I think that reading what's on the screen is becoming a lost art...

I have 7 systems at home, 5 that I manage in various places in the
World, a lot with MySQL running, and all went very well.

Nico