[mythtvnz] Myth system completely broken...

[Tortise]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com>
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Myth system completely broken...


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?
>

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Is there a way to flag that updates are in process - and not to update during that period, it seems I am not alone in having been 
caught during such a period?

One way that occurs to me is to check the dates of the source files, and if they are say 3 days old, then its probably ok, except 
that if everyone did that....we'd be no better off!