[mythtv-users] 'Not allowed to upgrade the database'

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Mon Apr 22 20:15:16 UTC 2013


On 22/04/13 20:27, Rich West wrote:
> On 04/22/2013 02:10 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 22/04/13 17:46, John Pilkington wrote:
>>> On 22/04/13 17:23, John Pilkington wrote:
>>>
>>>>> 2013-04-22 16:52:02.416178 I [5206/5206] CoreContext
>>>>> mythmainwindow.cpp:1020 (Init) - Trying the OpenGL painter
>>>>> 2013-04-22 16:52:02.416239 I [5206/5206] CoreContext
>>>>> mythpainter.cpp:600 (SetMaximumCacheSizes) - MythPainter cache sizes:
>>>>> Hardware 96 MB, Software 96 MB
>>>>> 2013-04-22 16:52:02.486065 I [5206/5206] CoreContext
>>>>> mythrender_opengl.cpp:76 (Create) - OpenGL: Sync to VBlank is enabled
>>>>> (good!)
>>>>
>>>> and suggests to me that the OpenGL painter might be at fault.  I
>>>> remember that I tried nvidia 304.64 from ATrpms but reverted to 304.51;
>>>>    304.64 from rpmfusion is what I have now.  Can I deactivate OpenGL
>>>> without being able to run mythtvsetup?  And is that likely to affect
>>>> the
>>>> DB upgrade?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Update:  Selecting 'OpenGL/GLX Information' in the NVIDIA X Server
>>> Settings window causes immediate closure of that window.  Doesn't look
>>> good.
>>>
>>> Device is GeForce 7500 LE, and last time I looked it was supposed to be
>>> ok with 304.64
>>>
>>
>> Seems to have been solved by editing xorg.conf as suggested here.
>>
>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=286084
>>
>> Modules provided by X.org were being loaded when those from nVidia
>> were expected.
>>
>> John P
>
> Having just gone through the same upgrade (ATrpms to RPMFusion), note
> that the RPMfusion RPMs have the mythbackend process run as the 'mythtv'
> user, so make sure your 'mythtv' user has read/write access to your
> video storage volumes and to your video capture devices.  Either that,
> or you can modify /usr/lib/systemd/system/mythbackend.service and change
> "User=mythtv" to "User=root".
>
> -Rich
>
Thank you.  There do seem to be a few tripwires around.  At present I'm 
only able to find three of my four tuners, and they're in a different 
order, and the Storage Group for recording seemed to need redefining; 
but I do have three recordings in progress now, so things could be worse!

John



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