[mythtv-users] problems with FC6->F7 upgrade

[Mike LaPlante]

Leszek Cieplinski wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have just upgraded my PC to Fedora 7 from FC6 and I am trying to get
> mythtv working again. I was hoping to keep the channel information and
> recordings so I did the following:
> - - dumped and restored the mythconverg database
> - - copied the .mythtv folder to my new home directory
>
> When I try to start mythtv-setup I get lots of errors about database
> access, part of which is here:
>
> 2007-06-20 10:46:21.872 DB Error (KickDatabase):
> Query was:
> SELECT NULL;
> No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
> 2007-06-20 10:46:21.922 Unable to connect to database!
> 2007-06-20 10:46:21.922 No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
> QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
> QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
>
> After several screenfuls of these, I get
> QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0)
> QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0)
> QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0)
>
> and the program just sits there apparently doing nothing; not showing
> the GUI, not using any CPU time.
>
> I am using the latest svn version of mythtv. Could that be the problem?
> (I have been tracking svn on FC6 before and it always worked fine). Or
> am I simply doing something wrong?
>
> Cheers,
>   Leszek
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I just upgrade my FC6 to F7 as well, this should help.
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.7

I basically wiped and reinstalled but left my /video partition in tact. 
Then after running mythtv-setup and mythfilldatabase follow that link 
and import just those tables.

This gets you all your previous recordings and schedules back, although 
you'll have to go through all your other general settings. I think this 
is the much cleaner option than restoring your entire old database. I 
don't think hostnames will be an issue, could be wrong though.

Mike