[mythtv-users] Totally hosed Myth, could not upgrade from .27 to .28

Thu Nov 10 18:01:31 UTC 2016

Thank you.  I forgot to mention this; I tried updating the
repositories with the button and it was failing to retrieve them. It
looks like I am successfully on the correct stable version of .28 now
but the control centre still thinks .28 is beta. I will take a look at
my sources.list file, thanks for the comparison.

I have also discovered that Kodi works now with .28 using Security Pin
0000.  The frontend that wasn't working was an Apple TV 4 app
(http://bartstechblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/mythtv-on-new-apple-tv.html)
that might be a .28 compatibility issue.  The developer is
unresponsive to questions so I'm not able to ask.

With Mythweb, I've also discovered that http://MyMythBackendIP:6544
does work, but the "old" Mythweb does not, I just receive the default
Apache page.

So all in all it isn't as "hosed" as I thought it was.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 14:47:12 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>So this is kind of a long story which has resulted in my totally
>>breaking MythTV, but bear with me please.
>>
>>Stats:
>>Mythbuntu 14.04
>>Myth .27+fixes
>>Working fine for nearly 4 years
>>
>>This all began with me wanting to install Kodi on my dedicated MythTV
>>frontend.  I could not connect to the backend with Kodi so I started
>>looking into the Myth backend logs, which indicated that there was no
>>security pin set.  I went into the MythTV backend setup and noticed
>>that the security pin field was blank.  Entering 0000, rebooting,
>>removing it, changing it to 1234, back to blank, back to 0000; none of
>>these things helped.  I decided perhaps I should upgrade from .27 to
>>.28 and maybe that would resolve the issue.  When I went into Myth
>>Control Centre, I attempted to change the update repos from .27 to .28
>>and I noticed that it was still asking me to input the
>>"YouMustBeThisTallToRide" password to enable .28 as it still thought
>>it was in beta.  I ran an update, an upgrade, etc. and it continued.
>>I decided I would then remove MythTV (sudo apt-get remove mythtv) and
>>reinstall.
>>
>>Since doing this, my install is completely screwed up.  MythTV Control
>>Centre still shows .28 as beta, Mythweb is broken, and I can connect
>>to the backend with my dedicated front end and the recordings display,
>>but I cannot play them and only get a static green screen.
>>
>>I've removed and reinstalled Myth again to no avail.  I cannot run my
>>frontend on my backend either; when I attempt to play a recording it
>>just closes and goes back to the desktop.
>>
>>I am at a loss here.  It seems like I am probably best off purging all
>>of this and restoring my database backup but I'm hoping it doesn't
>>come to that.
>>
>>Any thoughts on the direction I should follow?
>>
>>Thanks.
>
> Before you use Mythbuntu Control Center to upgrade, you are supposed
> to click on the "Refresh Available Repositories" button to get it to
> update the repository settings.  Doing that should get rid of the
> "beta" indications.  So that is the first thing to do.
>
> However, I have found that all upgrades of Mythbuntu, however done,
> often suffer from bad repository settings as various tools do the
> repository updates in different ways and do not check what other tools
> might have done.  So after you update the repositories, you need to go
> to your /etc/apt/ directory and in there check the sources.list file
> and all the *.list files in the sources.list.d directory.  What you
> are looking for is uncommented lines that point to repositories.  You
> need to check that there are only ones that point to the right MythTV
> repositories.  All references to 0.27 must be commented out, and if
> they are not, you need to either comment out that line (add a # at the
> start) or delete the entire file containing it (if it is no longer
> relevant).  And then check that you have a 0.28 repository that is
> uncommented and is the Mythbuntu PPA for 14.04 (trusty).
>
> My mother's MythTV box is still running 14.04 but has been upgraded to
> 0.28, so here are her files (after I have cleaned them up) for
> comparison.  First, the sources.list file.  We are in New Zealand, so
> it is set up to use the local NZ Ubuntu repositories - yours will
> likely point to your own local ones:
>
> # deb cdrom:[Mythbuntu 12.04 _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64
> (20120425)]/ dists/precise/main/binary-i386/
>
> # deb cdrom:[Mythbuntu 12.04 _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64
> (20120425)]/ dists/precise/multiverse/binary-i386/
> # deb cdrom:[Mythbuntu 12.04 _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64
> (20120425)]/ dists/precise/restricted/binary-i386/
> # deb cdrom:[Mythbuntu 12.04 _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64
> (20120425)]/ dists/precise/universe/binary-i386/
> # deb cdrom:[Mythbuntu 12.04 _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64
> (20120425)]/ precise main multiverse restricted universe
>
> # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade
> to
> # newer versions of the distribution.
> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
> deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
>
> ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
> ## distribution.
> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main
> restricted
> deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main
> restricted
>
> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
> Ubuntu
> ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive
> any
> ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe
> deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe
> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe
> deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe
>
> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
> Ubuntu
> ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself
> as to
> ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
> ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
> ## security team.
> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
> deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
> deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
>
> ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
> ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it
> includes
> ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful
> features.
> ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any
> review
> ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main
> restricted universe multiverse
> deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main
> restricted universe multiverse
>
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main restricted
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main
> restricted
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security universe
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security universe
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse
>
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
> ## 'partner' repository.
> ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical
> and the
> ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
> # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
> # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
>
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Ubuntu's
> ## 'extras' repository.
> ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
> ## developers who want to ship their latest software.
> # deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
> # deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
>
> And in the sources.list.d directory there is just this:
>
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 13:57 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr 18  2015 ../
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  132 Jul 25 16:57 mythbuntu-0_28-trusty.list
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   55 Oct  4 04:34 scootersoftware.list
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   55 Jul 25 16:57 scootersoftware.list.save
>
> The scootersoftware files are for some paid software I use to maintain
> things, so ignore them.  You may have some like that for other PPAs
> that you are using.  But for Mythbuntu, there should only be the one
> file (mythbuntu-0_28-trusty.list), and it should look something like
> this:
>
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.28/ubuntu trusty main
> # deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.28/ubuntu trusty main
>
>
> Once you have all that sorted, run:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
>
> from root or with sudo and see if it works.
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