[mythtv-users] GUI to CLI

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:25:20 -0700, you wrote:

>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

I have not filed any bug reports yet.  As I said, I am still working
on what is going on.  My systems often have non-standard things done
to them, so I like to work out if I caused the problem first before
filing bug reports.