[mythtv-users] frontend error messages prebuffer wait timed out

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/02/2009 06:39 PM, Phil Wild wrote:
>> First, when installing from source, there's no supported way to install
>> just the frontend or just the backend, so from that perspective, both.
>>  Generally, though, if you replace the packages, replace the whole set of
>> packages--mythtv (mythfrontend/mythbackend/mythtv-setup), mythplugins
>> (including MythWeb), myththemes, themes.
> I have separate frontend and backend systems. The question was more related
> to if I rebuild the frontend with patches, should I also rebuild the backend
> box to match or am I ok sticking with the mythbuntu install that I have?

Ah, understood.  You should run the same SVN revision on all systems.  
So, the best approach would be to determine which SVN revision you're 
currently running on the package-based systems (use "mythbackend 
--version" or "mythfrontend --version" to find out) and then check out 
the source code for that revision when downloading 0.21-fixes through SVN.

svn co -r <revision> http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-21-fixes/

This will look something like:

svn co -r 19547 http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-21-fixes/

Once you've done that, your built-from source and packaged systems 
should interoperate without issue.

Oh, and since you're running on a USB stick, you may want to dump the 
filesystem before doing the source install so you can go back to the 
package-based install after testing (especially if it doesn't help).  
Going from source-based install to package-based install is best done 
with a complete reinstall (or, restoration of a pre-source-install 
filesystem backup).

Mike