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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> |
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Date: 26 February 2010 04:52 |
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Subject: Re: [RFC] News item: 2010-03-01 MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption |
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To: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> |
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Cc: pr@g.o |
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Is there a simple way for users to determine what client versions they may have? |
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-A |
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> Forgot to send it to pr@ |
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> From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> |
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> Date: 26 February 2010 02:19 |
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> Subject: [RFC] News item: 2010-03-01 MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption |
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> To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
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> I think this is good to go, let's get some comments from the list. |
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> Ben |
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> From: Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> |
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> Date: 24 February 2010 16:57 |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Pending mask of Qt3 and MythTV |
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> To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
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> How about this revised news item: |
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> Title: MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption |
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> Author: Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> |
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> Content-Type: text/plain |
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> Posted: 2010-03-01 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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> Display-If-Installed: <media-tv/mythtv-0.22 |
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> Due to an incompatibility between MythTV 0.21 and the default Gentoo |
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> MySQL configuration, it is likely that long-time MythTV users will |
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> have databases with a mixture of locale encodings. If you upgrade to |
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> 0.22 without following these directions carefully, you could end up |
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> with a database that contains errors that are extremely difficult to |
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> fix. |
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> Note that not all mythtv users need to modify their databases, and |
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> this should only be performed at the time of the upgrade. The guide |
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> below contains instructions that can be used to determine if this |
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> problem pertains to you. |
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> Please see the MythTV Upgrade Guide for instructions: |
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> http://wiki.mythtv.org/wiki/Fixing_Corrupt_Database_Encoding |
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> Be sure to save a database backup before upgrading. Also, be sure to |
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> upgrade any other clients/backends you are using to 0.22 at the same |
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> time. The upgrade instructions need to be followed once per database |
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> - individual client/backend upgrades do not require these steps. |
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> If you do run into problems with your upgrade, there is a forum thread |
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> where you may be able to find help: |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-816566-highlight-.html |
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> -- |
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> Ben de Groot |
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> Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) |
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