[mythtvnz] Myth system completely broken...

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Ross and Jemima Knudsen
<ross.jemima at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wasn't trying to do anything on purpose but I allowed some updates on
> my system and now Myth is completely bust.  I'm using JYA's release repo
> on Ubuntu 9.04.  I got package upgrade notifications and in a moment of
> stupidity I applied them.  So I tried various options to try and fix it
> but without success.  Now I have completely removed Myth and when I try
> and reinstall it is still broken.
>
> Something strange I notice is that libmyth-0.22-0 is listed as an
> available package in Synaptic (the 0.21 one is there too) and when I try
> and install mythtv package it wants to install the 0.22 library instead
> of the 0.21 one.  I thought this repo was still 0.21-fixes only.
>
> When I do install everything the frontend comes up with an error saying
> that it the backend and frontend are using two different protocols.
>
> Also the database wizard (myth-database reconfigure) doesn't work
> correctly.  When I try entering the password it just fails and
> eventually will exit when you type the password a couple of times.  I
> know the password is correct because I can use it to log into phpmyadmin
> with it.
>
> Anyone else having trouble?
>

what is the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list