[mythtv-users] mythtv backend on lucid - going crazy here...

[Johnny Walker]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 24 May 2010 17:10, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On 24 May 2010 16:10, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > It is a backend only and it was the backend that I could not start. The
>>> > startup file /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf did not exist on my setup.
>>>
>>> Yes, because now mythtv-backend is started by upstart.
>>>
>>> So there's no more /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Agreed,
>>
>> but I said that /etc/INIT/mythtv-backend.CONF did not exist. I understand
>> that this is needed by upstart to launch mythtv-backend.
>
> That's my understanding. On my (non JYA) backend, the file is
> installed by the mythtv-backend package
>
> nick at media:~$ dpkg -S /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf
> mythtv-backend: /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf
>
>
>> This was definitely
>> generated when I installed the mythbuntu packages but I am unsure if they
>> were generated when I installed the JYA packages.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Phil
>>

I had a similar issue when I moved from pre-compiled binaries to
compiling from SVN.

It was suggested to use dpkg-deb -x to extract the mythtv-backend deb
file and then copy the etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf into place.

You can check /var/cache/apt/archives on your system to see old /
recent packages.

-Johnny