Mythtv on dapper

[Matt Price]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:31:44PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
> Ben Edwards writes:
> 
> > I have been running mythtv on dapper.  The front end crashes if it is
> > running for about 8 hours and periodically (every couple of days) the
> > back end dies.
> > 
> > Is anyone else running Mythtv on Dapper and if so are they having smiler
> > problems.
> 
> I am lucky if the front end lasts 8 hours, but the back end does
> periodically die for me.  The log file says the database went away,
> although mysqld is still running.  Add to that incompatibility (but no
> explicit Conflicts) between MythTV 0.18.1 and MySQL 5.0; the latter
> adds reserved words that the former uses as unquoted identifiers in
> certain tables.
> 
> This does not seem specific to Ubuntu; reports I hear from users of
> other distros make MythTV sound like nothing I would want to use on
> any distro.  Unfortunately, the alternatives all seem worse -- at
> least for Hauppage WinPVR family cards.
> 
> Michael Poole
> 

for what it's worth, I run mythtv on breezy -- it stays up for months at a
time, back andfront, on an old dell optiplex.  problems may come form myth
0.19, hwich seems lessstable.

matt


> -- 
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

-------------------------------------------
Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
History Department, University of Toronto
(416) 978-2094
--------------------------------------------