I hope someone can help point me in a direction...

I was configuring Mythburn on my working Knoppmyth box. Everything appeared fine but when I tried to create an ISO I got an error saying there was a problem with projectx. The KnoppMythWiki mentioned needing to install Xvfp in that instance to I did a apt-get install xvfp.

Now MythTV won't start. When I boot the machine, I get a message saying it cannot start the X server. Viewing the X server output shows another message stating:

GDM: Xserver not found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/
Error: Command could not be executed!
Please install the X server or edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf to point to the ri

Hopefully there is an easy way to fix this without having to reinstall or anything.

Thanks,
Scott

Nope, if you search for apt-get install on the forum you will see (certainly with R5B7) that for some installs, it removes a lot of packages which you cannot do without. So no, there's no easy fix AFAIK, you gotta reinstall/upgrade.

Basically, if you run apt-get install on R5B7, check very carefully what packages it wants to remove BEFORE you give it the go ahead...

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I also ran into this very problem tonight. I've tried the auto-upgrade to get it back together. X now starts... but just about everything else is broken. Both PVR-150s can't be loaded, the sound card isn't found.. everything is broken.

MythRestore appears to successfully copy everything back into place, but nothing's in the database, no settings are retained, nothing. Basically, I'm left with a non-functioning system.

Any input on what to do, without losing all of my recordings? And hopefully, retaining the database with all the schedules and all?

Dan

No, once you've upgraded you need to restore from a backup. Before you upgrade I guess you could do a manual backup. Check the forum and wiki for pointers on this. If you've already upgraded then I think you're sunk without a backup.

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Thanks for the reply. I ended up reinstalling and upgrading to R5B7 and, so far, things are working okay.

I had several recordings that I didn't want to lose and after the upgrade I see that the NUV files for these are still in the /tv directory even though they no longer show up in my recordings. Is there a way to import these NUV files back into Myth so I don't lose them?

Thanks,
Scott

Yes, although they will only be recovered as files with no metadata (descriptions etc). There is a script (probably already installed) that will do this, but you'll have to search the forum/wiki for the name of it. It works out the date and time and channel from the file name, but the rest you have to do by editing the DB directly.

Alternatively you can mv them to the myth/video directory and import them as videos instead. Its pretty easy to edit descriptions then, through Mythvideo or Mythweb.

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HP VL400 (PIII 866), Skystar2 2.6D, PVR350, Nvidia FX5200, 384MB, 200GB, KnoppMyth R5.5

Perhaps I'm missing something: I ran MythBackup, which appears to have successfully backed everything up. Then I did the upgrade. Then I ran MythRestore. But the database didn't restore. I wonder if I can just inject the new database with my backed-up sql files?

I'm guessing hardware isn't working because I didn't back up modules.list--so of course can't restore it. Though I figured that since everything was correctly autodetected for the install, it would be the same for the upgrade.

There should be no need to run mythrestore after doing an auto-upgrade. Restoring is part of the auto-upgrade process. unless you've tweaked a previous install, auto-upgrade should just work. Seems the original issue has been resolved... Move on folks.

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