[mythtv-users] MythExport

[Daryl McDonald]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>
wrote:

> On 30/01/15 03:23, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Anthony Giggins
>> <seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I imagine that "sudo apt-get install mythexport" would fail similarly
>>> unless
>>> I make corrections somewhere ?mkdir? maybe?
>>> I've drag n dropped files out of mythtv before but it is anything but
>>> elegant. Can anyone enlighten me as to how to make corrections which
>>> would
>>> allow me to install mythexport and there by move files properly?  TIA
>>> Daryl.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> you dont mention what version of ubunutu/mythbuntu your running (I'm
>>> guessing Trusty (14.04) from the version its installing, you could
>>> download
>>> the package from
>>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/amd64/mythexport/download
>>>
>>> and extract the files manually, perhaps the installation script has
>>> invalid
>>> mkdir syntax
>>>
>>>
>> No, it's likely at some point he fed it an empty dir string. At least
>> that is what the developer told me.
>>
>> Try this.
>>
>> "sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythexport"
>>
>>
>>
>>  Um, at what point during any package install do you get offered a prompt
> to enter a directory? I can't think of a single one offhand.
>
> The package is broken. Even if a path /was/ required, a suitable default
> ought to have been supplied.
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins
>
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I think we're making progress, but during the removal I noticed these:

dpkg: warning: while removing mythexport, directory
'/etc/apache2/sites-available' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing php5-json, directory
'/etc/php5/mods-available' not empty so not removed

and at the end of the process it did not say "failed" but:

Setting up mythexport (2.2.4-0ubuntu2) ...
mkdir: missing operand
Try 'mkdir --help' for more information.
dpkg: error processing package mythexport (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.5) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

and finally, clutching at straws here, is there any relevance to this line,
it stuck out:

 * Starting web server apache2

AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified
domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to
suppress this message
 *

Also different with this attempt, as the process began three grey screens
appeared, a " things have changed" screen  a "find out more at this link"
screen and a "provide path of export" screen. Still this message persists
when I sudo apt-get -f install":

daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
[sudo] password for daryl:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mythexport (2.2.4-0ubuntu2) ...
mkdir: missing operand
Try 'mkdir --help' for more information.
dpkg: error processing package mythexport (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mythexport
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

any other ideas?
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