This problem is in two parts: 1. You seem to be under the assumption that MythBuntu's installation is supposed to "work". From what I can tell, they're taking a completely agnostic approach to production configuration--since they can't satisfy everyone, they don't even try to accommodate a basic configuration. Think of it as a vehicle for installing the right packages so you can make it work.
2. MythBuntu devs need to man up and accept that people *will* actually configure it after installation, which means they need to enable a freaking include= directive for Samba to avoid this (which would mean oh gosh modifying the default Ubuntu package and pushing that argument upstream). Otherwise you as the end user *always *have to tell the package manager to ignore a non-default configuration and overwrite the changes. On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > Yet again I am reminded of why I don't like those little auto-update > programs that run largely by themselves when you start X. > > I had just installed Mythbuntu (not overly enamored of the *buntu family, > but being specifically built for MythTV, it seemed easiest...) I made some > configuration changes. It kept popping up with could not connect to > backend. Rebooted. Continued and kept asking to configure the front end > (step 1 and 2 of 2). Saw MySQL stopped working, couldn't get it started. > > I'd only been working on installing and configuring it for about 90 > minutes so I figured installing again would be best. > > On the second try, I saw the updater (which I probably said fine, go > update) had stopped in the middle of doing an update. Front end kept > asking to be configured again. > > Might could have figured how to recover, but I installed Mythbuntu yet > again. Did a command line update. The place where it hung before (which > was on Samba, nothing directly to do with Myth or MySQL) asked about > replacing or keeping the config file. > > This isn't the first time I've been bitten by such. I don't like those > tools. You don't always know where they are in the update process. Also > if there's an issue, or question, they don't report it and hang. > > Off my soap box now. > > Paul Boniol > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from an actual computer. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
