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[Garry Leach <778864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your clarification.

I haven't been able to add the patch (see below & earlier posts).

Nevertheless, I edited postinst by adding "set -x".

However, when I ran dpkg reconfigure, it gave me the same comment as
without the "set -x", that is: "mythtv-common is broken or not fully
installed".

Did you see the other comments in my 2 e-mails/comments; one on July 10 at
08:53 +10:00 & the other at 09:05?

Firstly, dpkg reconfigure doesn't work (response includes: "mythtv-common
is broken or not fully installed";

Secondly, Synaptic does not offer me the choice to re-install
mythtv-common, only to uninstall.

Thirdly, I can't access/find the patch, or the bug report for #778864.

Regards, Garry.

> Yes that is where set -x would go. Put it in there then do a reconfigure
> of mythtv-common. It should print quite a bit of stuff to the screen,
> which you will need to copy here.
>
>

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Title:
  mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV:
  In Progress

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

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