[mythtv-users] JYA release repo + jaunty problems with mythbackend starting

[David Asher]

On Jun 30, 2010, at 12:42 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 30, 2010, David Asher <asherml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 29, 2010, at 9:39 PM, David Asher wrote:
>> 
>>> It looks like the JYA release mythtv-backend package on jaunty now tries to use upstart to start the job (/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend is GONE).
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately mythtv-backend doesn't start for me.  When I try to do it by hand I get:
>>> 
>>> $ sudo start mythtv-backend
>>> start: Unknown job: mythtv-backend
>>> $
>>> 
>>> Can any one help me?  I have NO idea how upstart works.  Pointers to what to look at would be great.  I did check that upstart was installed:
>>> 
>>> $ aptitude search upstart
>>> i   upstart                                               - event-based init daemon
>>> i   upstart-compat-sysv                                   - compatibility for System-V-like init
>>> i   upstart-logd                                          - boot logging daemon
>>> 
>>> JYA, did you intend to switch the 9.04 mythtv-backend package over to upstart?
>>> 
>>> Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> David.
>>> 
>> 
>> Replying to myself to provide a little more information.  /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf DOES exist, but I still can't get upstart to recognize mythtv-backend as a valid job.
>> 
>> Any way to get "start" to give me some info about why it doesn't think there is a job named mythtv-backend.  the man page doesn't help.
>> 
>> David.
>> 
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> 
> Why not simply doing /etc/initial.d/mythtv-backend start ?

Because the mythtv-backend package no longer installs it.  It is GONE.  (assuming you meant /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend)

David.