Basics

Note that I am upgrading a system that was most recently installed with R4V4 and upgraded to the 0.15.1 debs. I also did most of this via an ssh session from my workstation box.

- This section corrects a few typos in Cecil's notes... Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file (corrected URL):


As root execute the following commands (corrected backend stop/start, examples for apt-get (YMMV!) and other miscellany):


Troubleshooting

- My X seemed to be roached, I ended up upgrading to the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run version of the NVidia drivers and having to revert from back to in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.
After running the NVidia installer I had to do the same fix for multiple versions of the tls lib, one of which is bad, as was needed for version 6106.
Don't forget to do another GDM restart after you fix these...

- I did NOT have the problem people have reported witht he DB upgrade colliding with a column that already exists.

Remaining issues

- I've seen the program guide related crashes that have been reported over in the MythTV Users mailing list. This despite using the newer NVidia drivers that are claimed to prevent it.

- (UPDATE) Mythnews also seems roached, nothing associated with it is working. I found the following messages in /home/mythtv/.xsession-errors

Hope this helps someone!

When using the walkthrough, I get the following error:

(Reading database ... 55072 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mythtv-i686-lirc (from .../mythtv-i686-lirc_0.16-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-i686-lirc_0.16-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/mythbackend', which is also in package mythtv-i586-lirc
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-i686-lirc_0.16-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any idea what could be causing the error? (I am running it on a PIII 550, could it be I installed myth wrong the first time?)

TIA
Michael

is the backend still running? you might want to stop it first
/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop

Thanks for the guide. I ran through it just fine. After rebooting the machine for unrelated reasons, I get:

"Cannot connect to master backend server - is the IP address correct, is it running?"

Seems like the problem is the backend doesn't startup on boot anymore. I had to manaully do a /etc/init.d/mythbackend start

Anyone else get this? ...anyone know how I fix it (several searches gave me nothing).

Thanks!

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Try replacing i686 with i586. Everything then worked for me except for mythweather where I received the following error message. Any ideas? Thanks.

Z

root@mythtv:~ # apt-get install mythweather-i586
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
mythweather-i586
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 535 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/493kB of archives.
After unpacking 32.8kB of additional disk space will be used.
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mythweather-i586_0.16-1_i386.deb not a valid DEB package.
E: Prior errors apply to /var/cache/apt/archives/mythweather-i586_0.16-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 53529 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mythweather-i586 0.15-1 (using .../mythweather-i586_0.16-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mythweather-i586 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mythweather-i586_0.16-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/libmythvideo.so', which is also in package mythvideo-i586
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mythweather-i586_0.16-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

One other observation: the HD LED seems to constantly blink whenever the backend is up after upgrading to 0.16... even when idle (I don't transcode). It's doing some serious disk accessing as even the speed of mythweb is slower.... Is this a sign of errors? Which log should I inspect to find out?

Thanks!

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This is the YMMV part. You should have said ...-i586 not ...-i686 for all the debs. You clearly installed with i586 debs last time....

Since this seems to be a point of variability it's probably best to just type the first part and then use tab completion to figure out how it's spelled. This obviously changed somewhere between your base install (R4V???) and mine (R4V4).

Bizarre... Are you farmiliar wth how init works? The script you ran manually should have links from the various runlevels like this:

If the name has changed these might be broken. Try looking at both spellings.

This isn't normal. You should only see heavy disk activity when you're playing back (the preview window in the recordings list counts here), marking commericials, or scanning for new music/movies/... Recording should only cause a flick of activity every few seconds. Get a console window (I'd ssh in but that's because my setup makes it the easyest option) and run top. Look for something hammering away at high CPU usage like the commercial marking process. At a guess you've got some recording in a weird state and it's trying to fix it.

E: Couldnt find package mythtv-i686-lirc-xvmc_0.16-1_i386.deb

This is after I added the geekweb line to the sources file, and apt-get updated. I got the line from Cesmans post, am I the only one using xvmc?

Also correct me if I am wrong (but tell me if I am right) but if I am using the above package then I dont need 'mythtv-i686-lirc_0.16-1_i386.deb' right?

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I made the same exact mistake. Just type "apt-get install mythtv-i686-lirc-xvmc", no need to add the version number and the rest of the file name.

Thanks that worked... Now I am in dependency hell

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If you mean this line:

It's not quite right. The corrected line can be found in my post at the top of this thread. All the examples in my post were cut and pasted from or into my actual upgrade session and verified to work for me. YMMV. The most lilkely differences are the architecture (i586 vs. i686) and the name of your init script.

what did you do try to convert it to a rdhat box?

seriously though what kind of dependency problems are you having?

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