[mythtv-users] GUI to CLI

[Thomas Mashos]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:48:26 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Greetings Mythizens, my experience today leads me to believe that Mythbuntu
>>> Control Center is not as compatible with Myth in Trusty as it is with Myth
>>> in Precise. Which in turn gives me a gentle nudge further away from GUI
>>> system management toward CLI system management. The wiki I read today was
>>> written in the days of 0.22 and alluded to there being back-up and restore
>>> scripts embedded in myth, but I'm not totally clear on how to evoke them.  I
>>> can still get my database backup tarball from Precise, and I would
>>> appreciate help with command line syntax on restoring it into Trusty.
>>> Guidance on setting up the revolving nightly backups would also be
>>> appreciated. TIA  Daryl
>>>
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>>
>>What experience? MCC is still compatible with trusty.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Thomas Mashos
>
> Having just upgraded from Mythbuntu 12.04 to 14.04 on both my Mother's
> box and my own, I would have to say that MCC and/or Mythbuntu 14.04
> installer have a number of problems.
>
> 1) MCC's window is not resizable and is stretched out horizontally
> across the full width of my screen.  It looks awful.
>
> 2) When I tell MCC to Apply an action, the popup window has the area
> assigned to listing the changes as only 2 lines and I can only see
> what the listed changes are by painfully scrolling it through those
> two lines.  It is not resizable.
>
> 3) When I enable the XMLTV repository, I get errors from the apt-get
> update command:
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/xmltv/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages
> 404  Not Found
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/xmltv/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages
> 404  Not Found
>
>
> 4) VNC is not starting properly.  I have tried turning it off and on
> again in MCC, but all I get when trying to connect is an error message
> from TightVNCVviewer, and then it appears that x11vnc has stopped.
> This did not happen with my mother's (much less complicated) Mythbuntu
> system.
>
> 5) I had all my ~/.lirc control files overwritten with new ones.
> Fortunately, the old ones were still there as *.old.  This did not
> happen on my mother's upgrade either.
>
> 6) My sudoers file setup to allow me to rotate my EPG download logs as
> part of my download script stopped working.
>
> 7) My /etc/init.d/lirc start and stop commands produce errors when
> trying to echo to /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols.  I can manually do
> those echo commands from a command prompt, but when I do them from
> inside a bash or sh file, they do not work.  From my mother's box:
>
> root at crw-pvr:~# /etc/init.d/lirc stop
> sh: echo: I/O error
> sh: echo: I/O error
>  * Stopping remote control daemon(s): LIRC [ OK ]
>
> On my mother's box, the errors are not a problem, but on mine my
> remote does not function until I have done the commands manually.
>
> That is all that I can remember at the moment.  I am working on fixing
> all these things and trying to see why they have happened.
> _______________________________________________

Are there bug reports for these? I couldn't find any. 6 and 7 aren't
MCC issues but the rest seem like they should have bug reports.


Thanks,

Thomas Mashos