Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems

[Michael Sullivan]

On 10/26/11 13:31, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On 10/26/11 11:36, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/26/11 11:07, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:23:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> At first I thought that sometime that installed since Oct 12 was causing
>>>>> the segfault, so I tried unmerging the 350+ packages that had installed
>>>>> since then and listing them in package.mask, but that blew up in my face
>>>>> because I don't know a command that forces portage to ignore masked
>>>>> packages and install next-highest stable versions.
>>>>
>>>> Mask higher versions in package mask
>>>>
>>>>> cat/pkg-version.you.want
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I did, but as I said there where 350+ of them.  And every time I tried
>>> to emerge anything else, I couldn't because some package I needed was
>>> listed in package mask.  I got the package list that I added to
>>> package.mask from /var/log/portage-logs for files dated from October 12
>>> till 24.  It was an epic fail. I couldn't even emerge -e world because
>>> of those stupid masked package versions...
>>
>> OK, I haven't used Myth now in over a year so take this with a grain
>> of salt. From the log file it appears that your client isn't
>> connecting to the server which likely explains why you don't see the
>> programs. I wonder if you've tested connecting to mythconverg manually
>> via a terminal? Maybe something like /etc/my.cnf or one of the Myth
>> config files got messed up in the update.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Mark
>>
>
> Mysql on camille is broken:
>
> camille ~ # mysql -u root -p
> mysql: unknown variable 'expire_logs_days=10'
>
> I'll do some googling, but I thinmichael@camille ~ $ sudo mythbackend
2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 mythbackend version: branches/release-0-23-fixes
[27077] www.mythtv.org
2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv
2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Empty LocalHostName.
2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Using localhost value of camille
2011-10-26 13:48:02.176 New DB connection, total: 1
2011-10-26 13:48:02.223 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-26 13:48:02.223 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2011-10-26 13:48:02.231 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-26 13:48:02.344 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1254
2011-10-26 13:48:02.348 MythBackend: Running as a slave backend.
2011-10-26 13:48:02.384 mythbackend: MythBackend started as a slave backend
2011-10-26 13:48:02.390 New DB connection, total: 2
2011-10-26 13:48:02.401 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-26 13:48:02.426 New DB connection, total: 3
2011-10-26 13:48:02.462 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 MediaServer:: Loopback address specified -
127.0.0.1. Disabling UPnP
2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2011-10-26 13:48:03.773 Connecting to master server: 192.168.2.3:6543
2011-10-26 13:48:03.773 Connected successfully
2011-10-26 13:48:12.673 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread
2011-10-26 13:48:33.781 MythSocket(8219290:23): readStringList: Error,
timed out after 30000 ms.
QMutex::unlock: mutex lock failure: Invalid argument
k that sounds like a config file

It's been up for about 20 minutes and it hasn't crashed.  None of the
things I mentioned before work, but at least it's not crashing, right?
This is a good step forward...
> directive.  I'll probably do a rebuild of mysql as well...


I googled the expire_logs thing and what I found said to comment it out
and restart mysql.  I did that, and now the output of mythbackend says: