[02:38] <sabhain> sometimes I honestly want to throw this stuff through a wall.
[02:49] <sabhain> I get so close to being set and done .. and then everything goes up in smoke.
[02:49] <sabhain> no wonder I don't ever want to upgrade these things.
[03:48] <sabhain> one day I'm gonna write up a how-to for adding a slave back end to an existing / stable mythbuntu setup without nuking the existing functionality, cause best I can tell, it's not been done before (the documenting).
[04:04] <sabhain> It really is a spectacular feat of my admin skills when I can't even run mythtv-setup because it can't find the database the same machine.
[13:48] <sabhain> wow.  really bad week with ubuntu, I guess.
[13:48] <sabhain> Sorry for all the venting here.
[14:12] <rhpot1991> sabhain: can't say I share the same experience
[14:12] <rhpot1991> I did have an issue adding a slave backend recently where it was constantly disconnecting, I can't recall what the issue was though
[14:18] <sabhain> rhpot1991: I'm starting to focus on hostname resolution.  I had the tuner (HDPVR driving a STB) working on the slave backend when it was setup as  a standalone system.
[14:18] <sabhain> I followed what I thought were the right steps in shutting down the local backend and making it a slave.
[14:19] <sabhain> It showed up on the master backend, but with {ERROR} in the tuner status list.
[14:19] <sabhain> so the slave machine is "DFE" .. and in the master back end, it showed the tuner as "/dev/video0 on DFE".
[14:20] <sabhain> I typically use DHCP leases in my dd-wrt to set the machine IP's .. I never tinker with /etc/hosts
[14:20] <sabhain> just hard code things to the IP's.
[14:21] <sabhain> so I was starting to think it was a host name resolve or something, and then all of a sudden the back end started auto-expiring all my recordings and deleting them.
[14:22] <sabhain> turns out, i'm an idiot and hadn't fully killed the mysql on the slave.  After a restart, it fired up, and I think there was competing backends or something.  The slave backend calculated its space (which isn't big) and started blowing things away.
[14:22] <sabhain> I have a backup, but things cascaded from there.
[14:23] <rhpot1991> sabhain: I would have ported everything to the new master first, then did a bit of a fresh install on the old
[14:25] <sabhain> rhpot1991: the master hasn't changed, but for an upgrade to 12.04 from 10.04 and some new storage.  That stuff went well.
[14:25] <sabhain> rhpot1991: you suggesting I just do a clean install on the slave, rather than trying to move it from being a master to a slave?
[14:25] <rhpot1991> I'm confused, did you have 2 masters?
[14:25] <rhpot1991> I assumed you built a new master and wanted to make your old master a slave
[14:49] <sabhain> rhpot1991: I had 2 masters, only because I added an HD-PVR to one of my existing FE's and took it away from the rest of the system as a standalone FE/BE to test out the stability and workability of the HD-PVR
[14:49] <sabhain> my master is the same master as always, but has recently been upgraded to 12.04
[14:50] <sabhain> and now one of my FE's I want to have work as a FE/SBE.
[14:50] <sabhain> for a brief time the FE/SBE was separated from the main master and operating as a standalone FE/BE
[14:57] <TandyUK> did anyone see my questin last night
[14:57] <TandyUK> how a ehome infrared transciever seems to have mysteriously changed hardware ID
[16:37] <sabhain> rhpot1991: is there any reason I should be using a mythbuntu specific install rather than the ubuntu mini iso and then package selecting from there?
[16:44] <rhpot1991> sabhain: nope both should work just fine
[16:44] <rhpot1991> TandyUK: kernel upgrade?
[16:46] <TandyUK> i uspect so yeag
[16:46] <TandyUK> urg typos
[16:47] <TandyUK> i tried both methods in the link i posted, but neith has made any difference
[16:47] <TandyUK> but im 99.99% certain both machine used to show the reciever with the same hardware id