Opened 9 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

#12604 closed Bug Report - General (Unverified)

Mythtv 0.28pre Upgrade and new install from ppa 0.28 fails

Reported by: mike.bibbings@… Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: unknown
Component: Packaging Version: Unspecified
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

The following error happens on either upgrade or new install on Ubuntu 15.10 of 2:0.28.0~master.20160113.a0debad-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2

sudo dpkg -i mythtv-database_2%3a0.28.0~master.20160113.a0debad-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2_all.deb 
(Reading database ... 333906 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack mythtv-database_2%3a0.28.0~master.20160113.a0debad-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2_all.deb ...
Unpacking mythtv-database (2:0.28.0~master.20160113.a0debad-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2) over (2:0.28.0~master.20160113.a0debad-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2) ...
Setting up mythtv-database (2:0.28.0~master.20160113.a0debad-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2) ...
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mythtv.cnf’: File exists
dpkg: error processing package mythtv-database (--install):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mythtv-database

Looks like recent change to mythtv packaging has broken things commit 5bdf696e5a6478908742b123cfc1a37ff551d1f9

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by mike.bibbings@…

Sorry, forgot to mention the error leaves mythbackend in inconsistent state so it does not run.

comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by superm1@…

comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by Stuart Auchterlonie

Resolution: Unverified
Status: newclosed

Closing all old tickets in trac.

If your issue still persists, please open an issue in Github https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues

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