[mythtv-users] GUI to CLI

[Thomas Mashos]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:23 AM, Stephen Worthington
> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:48:26 -0700, you wrote:
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>> >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
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>> 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.
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>> 1) MCC's window is not resizable and is stretched out horizontally
>> across the full width of my screen.  It looks awful.
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>> 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.
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>> 3) When I enable the XMLTV repository, I get errors from the apt-get
>> update command:
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>> W: Failed to fetch
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>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/xmltv/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages
>> 404  Not Found
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>> W: Failed to fetch
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>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/xmltv/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages
>> 404  Not Found
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 6) My sudoers file setup to allow me to rotate my EPG download logs as
>> part of my download script stopped working.
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>> 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:
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>> 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 ]
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> My experience was after trying to enable MythExport and getting failure
> messages every other plug-in failed and eventually the BE refused to start.
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I've heard of a mythexport issue, but I'm unsure if there is a bug
report. As for Mythbackend, I can't think of a thing MCC could do
(short of removing the backend packages) that would stop the backend
from starting, so I think that has to do with something else.


Thanks,

Thomas Mashos