[mythtv-users] Recordings not working

[Tom Dexter]

On 5/24/21, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 12:42 PM Stephen Worthington
> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> And until this fix makes its way into the MythTV code, I can confirm
>> that my workaround of running "mythutil --resched" from a systemd
>> timer every hour works.
>
> And on the mythtv forums, it was validated that
> downgrading the libmysqlclient to the previous
> bugfix version (before 8.0.24) works too.
>
> I would have thought that an API impacting
> change would not be introduced in a patch
> (bugfix) update, but apparently some dev
> in the Oracle org decided differently.

Wow...you've got that right. I just got burned by this on my Gentoo
backend with the update of  dev-db/mysql-connector-c from 8.0.23-r1 to
8.0.25. Until I read everything around this issue, I assumed that
minor upgrade couldn't possibly be related.

For reasons I won't get into, I'm still running MythTV 29.1, and the
patch for this would need major rework for that, so for now I just
downgraded dev-db/mysql-connector-c.

But yea...a non-backward compatible API change in a minor version
bump?? Only a developer with no clue as to what an "API" is would pull
that crap.

You know...some time back I switched all my systems from MySQL to
MariaDB and couldn't be happier with it. This makes me wish they'd
fork the client code as well, so we can get the idiots at Oracle out
of the picture entirely....maybe this inexcusable bullshit wouldn't
occur.

Tom