Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#11830 closed Bug Report - General (Invalid)

mythconverg_backup.pl in 0.27 doesn't support prior config.xml versions

Reported by: skd5aner@… Owned by: sphery
Priority: minor Milestone: unknown
Component: Contributed Scripts & Apps Version: Master Head
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

I just upgraded to 0.27-fixes. I compile from source, so I did a make uninstall on 0.26-fixes, compiled and installed 0.27-fixes, then tried to run mythconverg_backup.pl prior to running any mythtv executable for the first time to backup the database. Unfortunately, it can't properly parse the config.xml file in my home directory. When I run the version of mythconverg_backup.pl that ships with 0.26, it works just fine.

The output from running the mythconverg_backup.pl version that ships with 0.27-fixes is:

mythconverg_backup.pl --verbose                          
Configuring environment:
  -    username: mythtv
  -        HOME: /home/mythtv
  - MYTHCONFDIR: /home/mythtv/.mythtv

Parsing configuration files:
  - checking: /home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml
     parsing: /home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml
  - checking: /home/mythtv/.mythtv/backuprc
     parsing: /home/mythtv/.mythtv/backuprc

Applying command-line arguments.

Checking configuration.

WARNING: DBName not specified. Using mythconverg

WARNING: DBHostName not specified.
         Assuming it is specified in the MySQL options file.

WARNING: DBUserName not specified.
         Assuming it is specified in the MySQL options file.

WARNING: DBPassword not specified.
         Assuming it is specified in the MySQL options file.

Database Information:
         DBHostName:
             DBPort: -1
         DBUserName:
         DBPassword:
             DBName: mythconverg
        DBSchemaVer:
  DBBackupDirectory: /mythtv/DBBackup
   DBBackupFilename: mythconverg-20130907213135.sql

Executables:
          mysqldump: mysqldump
           compress: gzip

Executing command:
'/usr/bin/mysqldump' --add-drop-table --add-locks --allow-keywords --complete-insert --extended-insert --lock-tables --no-create-db --quick --add-drop-table 'mythconverg' 2>&1 1>'/mythtv/DBBackup/mythconverg-20130907213135.sql'

mysqldump exited with status: 2
mysqldump output:
mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using password: NO) when trying to connect

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by sphery

Resolution: Invalid
Status: newclosed

After debugging on IRC, we found an old, pre-config.xml-changes mythconverg_backup.pl in the user's PATH that was being executed. The reason the 0.26-version backup script worked properly before creating the bug was because its path was specified directly (ensuring the right script was run). At this point, both 0.26- and master-/0.27-version backup scripts were confirmed to work properly.

Since make install installs the backup and restore scripts to the share dir, and not to any bin dirs, the copy of the old script in the bin directory wasn't overwritten. Users wanting to make the backup script accessible without specifying its full path may want to use a link in the bin directory to ensure they're always using the current version of the script.

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