[mythtv-users] help! Ubuntu upgrade ate my mythtv

[Joseph Fry]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
> Honestly I would have just backed up and did a reinstall to 12.04. Going
> though that many upgrades is bound to have some issue.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Mashos
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Dan Kressin <dkressin at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I did a series of Ubuntu / Mythtv upgrades this weekend on my combined
>> FE/BE.  Started as 7.04 / .20.2 which had been running great since being
>> installed when those were current.  I used do-release-upgrade to go to 7.10
>> (.21) and further to 8.04 (.21+fixes), testing my setup after each with no
>> problems.  Last night I went the next step to 10.04 (.23+fixes) and at the
>> end I answered 'yes' to remove obsolete packages.  I saw a few myth packages
>> in the list, but assumed they were leftovers from .21+fixes.  Apparently not
>> since it removed mythtv-backend and mythtv-database, as well as a few
>> inconsequential plug-ins (mythnews, mythweather, etc).
>>
>> mysql is still installed (now at 5.1.70), mythv user and homedir still
>> exist, as do my recordings.
>>
>> So my questions:
>> 1) Can I simply "apt-get install mythtv-backend" and be whole?  What about
>> mythtv-database?
>> 2) How can I determine whether mythconverg still exists and is at the
>> correct version?  (latest backup file I have is
>> mythconverg-1214-20130805063609.sql.gz)
>> 3) Is there anything else I should be wary about?
>>
>> Here's the output of "dpkg -l | grep myth":
>> rc  libmyth-0.20                               0.20.2-0ubuntu10.1
>> rc  libmyth-0.21-0
>> 0.21.0+fixes18207-0ubuntu4~hardy1
>> ii  libmyth-0.23-0                             0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
>> ii  libmyth-python                             0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
>> ii  mythgallery                                0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
>> rc  mythtv-backend                             0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
>> ii  mythtv-common                              0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
>> rc  mythtv-database                            0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
>> ii  mythtv-doc                                 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
>> ii  mythtv-frontend                            0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
>> ii  mythvideo                                  0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
>> ii  mythweb                                    0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2
>> rc  ubuntu-mythtv-frontend
>> 0.21.0+fixes18207-0ubuntu4~hardy1
>>
>> I seriously appreciate any help in getting the old boy going again.

I would agree with Thomas... but I believe my system has gone through
that same series of upgrades without issue... at least LTS to LTS.

It looks like you have a good backup (today at 06:36)... just back it
up to another machine to be extra safe.

Then, install mythbuntu-desktop... I would imagine you will be good to
go after that.  Hopefully when MythTV was removed, the configuration
files didn't go with it... typically they are left alone unless you
PURGE the package.

The database should still be there... again, databases typically
aren't deleted when the package that uses them is removed, that would
be a VERY unpopular practice.