Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems

[Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.com>]

On 10/26/11 11:36, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.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 think that sounds like a config file
directive.  I'll probably do a rebuild of mysql as well...