[mythtv-users] Help running mythtv-setup

[Kenni Lund]

2012/3/9 James Klaas <jklaas at appalachian.dyndns.org>

> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Kenni Lund <kenni at kelu.dk> wrote:
> >
> > Den 09/03/2012 14.57 skrev "James Klaas" <jklaas at appalachian.dyndns.org
> >:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:47 PM, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On 09/03/2012, at 2:16 AM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi.  My upgrade/reinstallation of MythTV seems to be going backwards.
> >> >> I'm a little frustrated at this point.
> >> >> I keep getting sidetracked by apparently irrelevant errors.
> >> >>
> >> >> I removed all the database files, I removed all the packages and
> tried
> >> >> starting over from scratch.  I reinstalled the Ubuntu packages from
> >> >> the mythbuntu packages using 0.25 since I've got a Ceton.
> >> >>
> >> >> When I run mythtv-setup, I get the Country/Language dialog, but
> >> >> there's no Language list.  Looking in the kern.log I see lots of
> >> >> errors about libQtCore.so.4.6.2 segfaulting.
> >> >> Can anyone help.  This should be as clean an install as installing
> from
> >> >> scratch.
> >> >
> >> > >From your postings it would seem that you are not a wizz that can
> >> > install a myth system with his eyes closed so why would you be
> playing with
> >> > the 0.25-beta?
> >> > Standard (say 10.04 cause I've done that) ubuntu JustWorks when you
> >> > install the myth packages.
> >> > I've not tried but am confident that mythbuntu makes it very easy too.
> >> >
> >> > Once you have a working 0.24 system THEN get bold and play
> >> > Using your ProductionSystem as a play ground will cause scratched
> knees
> >> > YMMV
> >> >
> >> > James
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> >>
> >> I am actually quite experienced with Myth, I just haven't had an
> >> active system for a few years.  Why take a condescending attitude
> >> James, if you're not going to offer a constructive suggestion?  It's
> >> very irritating.
> >>
> >> I'll be trying what Michael Watson said:
> >>
> >> > ... setting up a Backend only (No Frontend).  I found that I needed to
> >> > install the frontend package
> >> > before I could set the Country/Language properly.)
> >>
> >> Unfortunately it's things like this that also irritate me, I shouldn't
> >> have to install the frontend to configure a backend only.  You can't
> >> have mythweather without the front end either.  Why would I need to do
> >> that at all on a backend-only system with mythweather on the web
> >> interface.  I'm willing to deal with quirks like this, but if I don't
> >> know about them, it's pointless.  This essentially a bare install.
> >> Whether the software is "beta" or not (the language issue happened in
> >> the 0.24 packages too), it shouldn't happen on a bare install.
> >
> > You can't really call it a clean install if you're running with an old
> (and
> > partly broken) database and haven't cleaned out your ~/.mythtv
> directories.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Kenni
> >
> >
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>
> Right, but if you read some of my other posts in this thread, I've
> also tried it with no database at all to start with.
>

Sorry about that, I didn't see that you had already tried that. Anyway, did
you try to clean out the cache directories within .mythtv as I've suggested
twice? I've multiple times experienced theming issues, which was solved
once the cache/temp dirs were deleted.

Best regards
Kenni
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