[mythtv-users] Can't start backend on Debian 9 (Stretch)

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Jul 27 20:37:41 UTC 2017


On 27/07/17 19:28, Stefan Davids wrote:
> On 27/07/17 18:44, Mike Perkins wrote:
>
>>>
>> As I said, I don't have that file. I've checked the .deb contents and
>> the .service file isn't in there.
>>
>> Since I selected "mythtv-backend" to install I'm wondering if the
>> .service files only come with an install of everything.
>>
>> My big problem is that everything was working fine until I reloaded the
>> database. Something changed and I don't know what. If I run the backend
>> by hand it comes up fine, so I know there's nothing wrong with the
>> database or the internal configuration, but that's not a sustainable
>> solution.
>
> You could try just dropping that .service file into where I found it, do "systemctl daemon-reload"
> and see if you can start it with systemctl start then.
>
> I'd expect a .system to be in the mythtv-backend package since that's what needs them but I didn't
> get the deb's I used from deb-multimedia. I followed
>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Debian
>
> which was pretty painless and built .debs which did all the systemd stuff for me.  You'll have to
> fiddle the dependencies since it still depends on libmysqlclient-dev which doesn't seem to be in
> stretch anymore.  I did the following:
>
> +++ packaging/deb/mythtv/debian/control 2017-07-27 19:20:21.543742313 +0100
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
>                  libxv-dev,
>                  libtag1-dev,
>                  libvisual-0.4-dev,
> +                default-libmysqlclient-dev,
> -                libmysqlclient-dev,
>                  libdate-manip-perl,
>                  libxml-simple-perl,
>                  libimage-size-perl,
>
> And it build and installed fine.  Probably MariaDB related.
>
...and that made no difference either. Doesn't raise a ripple. No logs, does not exist, never runs.

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Mike Perkins



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