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[Garry Leach <778864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas,

re /var/lib/mythtv:

Should I just create this folder (& then run install mythtv-common)?  If
so, what permissions would I need to set (users/groups/access...)

This was a new install of MythTV-frontend on my desktop PC.  So, I doubt
that this folder would have previously existed...  On the other hand,
this failure has happened during an upgrade from the standard version
available in 10.10 (0.23) to 0.24.  The standard version didn't ever get
a chance to be set-up, due to incompatibility with the Myth database
version on my HTPC1, so I don't know anything about this folder from
before the upgrade.

I didn't delete that directory.

I don't have any remote mounted filesystems (apart from those on HTPC1
being remote to Desktop-2).

I occasionally mount an external HDD for backing-up my files, sometimes
using a SATA socket if it is available.

By the way, I have had MythWeb set-up (& working fine) for several years
on Desktop-2.  I don't have much of an idea of how that works, or
whether it has any relevance.

(Desktop-1 more or less exists, but is mostly not operational.  I borrow
parts from it occasionally.  It is 6 years old & somewhat slow.)

Regards, Garry.

On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 21:16 +0000, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> Odd, there should be that directory on the remote frontend PC. Did you
> delete that directory or did it never get created? Do you have any
> remote mounted filesystems?
>

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Title:
  mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 10.10 + MythTV frontend on this PC.
  I have Myth TV 0.24 (combined back- & font-ends) installed on a different PC.
  I wanted to be able to access the backend from the PC that I am now using.
  Originally, I installed the package listed in Synaptic (ver 0.23).  However, when I tried to set it up, it would not allow me to continue, due to the different database versions (or words to that effect).
  I then looked up how to get a PPA, entered that detail into the synaptic repository sources, & downloaded the update to 0.24.
  During the installation of the update, mythtv-common failed, reporting these lines of text:
  setting up mythtv-common (2:0:24.0+fixes.20110507.5d38c49-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2) ...
  sed: -e expression #1, char 45: unknown option to 's'
  dpkg: error processing myth-common (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already;
  There was also this error message:
  E: mythtv-common: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  E: mythtv-frontend: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

  There was enough of MythTV working to be able to set it up.
  However, it drops to a black screen whenever I use esc.

  The availability of this remote frontend is not time critical.
  However, I would like to finalise the setup & be able to say that this
  task is finished & working.

  I can appreciate that working with a PPA has risks.  After I installed
  0.24 on my front & backend PC, I disabled the PPA in the repository
  source, so that I wouldn't get updates.  I plan to move to 11.04 later
  this month & then allow all updates.

  I hope that this information is of help.  Regards, Garry.

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: mythtv-common 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110507.5d38c49-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  CrashDB: mythbuntu
  Date: Sat May  7 11:37:39 2011
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
  Installed_mythtv_dbg: 0.0
  MythTVDirectoryPermissions: Error: command ['ls', '-l', '/var/lib/mythtv'] failed with exit code 2: ls: cannot access /var/lib/mythtv: No such file or directory
  SourcePackage: mythtv
  Title: package mythtv-common 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110507.5d38c49-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1