I have everything else enabled except source code, so I don't think that is the problem.
>From the distro upgrade logs (/var/log/dist-upgrade/) I deduct that the problem is caused by the fact that I've changed the password, the security paranoid that I am, for root in mysql database from nothing to something else. Anyway, the details: The packages that failed to install are: mythtv-database (couldn't be configured because of failed connection to mysql db) mythtv (depends on mythtv-database) relevant bits from the end of the attached (/var/log/dist-upgrade/term.log) log: Errors were encountered while processing: mythtv-database mythtv Traceback (most recent call last): File "logging/__init__.py", line 740, in emit File "logging/__init__.py", line 718, in flush IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor feisty: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server :0.0. Setting up mythtv-database (0.20-svn20070122-0.0ubuntu6) ... Failed to connect to database: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) at -e line 5, <> line 1. Failed to create database (incorrect admin username/password?) It's also possible that mysql-server wasn't running. After install is completed, you will need to make sure mysql-server is running and that you supplied correct information. Try: sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database cp: cannot create regular file `/var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/mythtv-reconfigu re-required': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing mythtv-database (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv: mythtv depends on mythtv-database (= 0.20-svn20070122-0.0ubuntu6); however: Package mythtv-database is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing mythtv (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Output from sudo apt-get install mythtv Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mythtv is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-2.6.17-11-generic linux-headers-2.6.17-11 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up mythtv-database (0.20-svn20070122-0.0ubuntu6) ... Failed to connect to database: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) at -e line 5, <> line 1. Failed to create database (incorrect admin username/password?) It's also possible that mysql-server wasn't running. After install is completed, you will need to make sure mysql-server is running and that you supplied correct information. Try: sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database cp: cannot create regular file `/var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/mythtv-reconfigure-required': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing mythtv-database (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv: mythtv depends on mythtv-database (= 0.20-svn20070122-0.0ubuntu6); however: Package mythtv-database is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing mythtv (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: mythtv-database mythtv E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ** Attachment added: "/var/log/dist-upgrade/term.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8519949/term.log -- myth-tv failed to upgrade properly on distribution upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126781 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs