[Mageia-dev] help with update/testing needed / freeze exception for me-tv

Wed May 9 12:44:07 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 05/05/12 21:06 did gyre and gimble:
+> 2012/5/5 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+>> 2012/5/5 Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de>:
+>>> Am 05.05.2012 21:04, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath:
+>>>> 2012/4/4 Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de>:
+>>>>> Hi all,
+>>>>>
+>>>>> me-tv (a really nice and easy to-use DVB viewer with EPG guide)
+>>>>> totally went under my radar and it has not been updated nor
+>>>>> rebuild yet for cauldron since quite some time, seems i forgot
+>>>>> to commit my local update to 2.x branch, and me-tv was not
+>>>>> covered by check.mageia.org updates report, and i've to update
+>>>>> it when i was still apprentice.
+>>>>>
+>>>>> But as me-tv development was suspended, and now restarted
+>>>>> (2.0 branch was complete rewrite, with differing features, f.ex.
+>>>>> server/client based) so that 1.4 branch is the followup to what
+>>>>> we have in cauldron: https://launchpad.net/me-tv/+announcement/9377
+>>>>>
+>>>>> FWIW, me-tv-1.3.6 in cauldron was built last time beginning of last july.
+>>>>> I'd like to get some sort of freeze exception for me-tv, but primarily
+>>>>> help with testing this in cauldron, i've just pushed a rebuild of it,
+>>>>> could all who possess a DVB-receiver and a physical cauldron
+>>>>> installation please test it, should be available soon, rebuild went
+>>>>> through.
+>>>> What exactly do you need (sorry for picking this up so late)?
+>>>>
+>>>> Todays experience as posted in the forum:
+>>>>
+>>>> Cauldron 64-bit with all updates. KDE. "Real" installation on a Samsung R530.
+>>>> Adapter Happauge Nova-T, firmware: dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw in
+>>>> /lib/firmware, plugging in the adapter gives success message in
+>>>> syslog: "Hauppauge Nova-T in warm state"
+>>>>
+>>>> Installed is me-tv (including dependencies):
+>>>>
+>>>>     me-tv-1.3.6-3.mga2
+>>>>     dvb-apps-1.1.1-8.hg1465.1.mga2
+>>>>     lib64unique1.0_0-1.1.6-6.mga2
+>>>>     lib64dvbapps-1.1.1-8.hg1465.1.mga2
+>>>>
+>>>> After installation and starting the application me-tv shows a message
+>>>> that the existing Me-Tv database is to old to be used by this version.
+>>> This sounds like complete bogus to me, as the only version of
+>>> me-tv for Mageia 1 and cauldron is 1.3.6, there should be no
+>>> difference at all.
+>>
+>> But different builds.
+>>
+>>> This cauldron install, was it upgraded from mga1, or where did
+>>> the old .me-tv config come from?
+>>
+>> Fresh Beta3 installation. The database (NOT config!) file is me-tv.db
+>> and it is installed by the package. I also tried erasing the file
+>> after installation before starting the application - the message about
+>> the old db persists. See below
+>>
+>>
+>>> But if this problem persists, mostly all me-tv users should face
+>>> it after upgrading from Mageia 1 to Mageia 2, so we probably
+>>> need some kind of fix for this ...
+>>>
+>>>> Option "Cancel" ends the whole application, clicking on "Erase old
+>>>> Me-Tv data" the messagebox runs into a freeze which crashes the whole
+>>>> application. In the konsole this looks like:
+>>>>
+>>>>     $ me-tv -v
+>>>>     Me TV 1.3.6
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:02:55: Application constructor
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:02:55: sqlite3_threadsafe() = 1
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:02:55: Database 'exists'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:02:55: Opening database file
+>>>> '/home/alfred/.local/share/me-tv/me-tv.db'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:02:55: Loading UI files
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:02:55: Application constructed
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:02:55: Initialising table 'version'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:02:55: Required Database version: 6
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:02:55: Actual Database version: 0  <<--- here the
+>>>> message box pops up and I click on "Erase old data"
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping Me TV schema
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping table 'channel'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping table 'epg_event'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping table 'epg_event_text'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping table 'scheduled_recording'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping table 'version'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:26: Vacuuming database
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:27: Initialising table 'channel'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:27: Initialising table 'epg_event'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:27: Initialising table 'epg_event_text'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:27: Initialising table 'scheduled_recording'
+>>>>     05.05.2012 15:03:27: Initialising table 'version'
+>>>>
+>>>> and that's it.
+>>>>
+>>>> In MGA1 Me-TV works nicely with the same adapter. In MGA1 the package
+>>>> is me-tv-1.3.6-1.1.mga1 - in MGA2 the packages is me-tv-1.3.6-3.mga2
+>>>>
+>>> Can you please try again after removing ~/.local/share/me-tv/ ?
+>>
+>> - removed ~/.local/share/me-tv/ (including the me-tv.db)
+>>
+>> Result: Starting me-tv runs into a timeout. Message in konsole:
+>>
+>> (me-tv:1956) : Unique-DBUS-WARNING **: Error while sending message:
+>> Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include [followed by the
+>> generic causes ( message bus security block, reply timeout expired,
+>> network connection broke, etc.)]
+>>
+>> After reboot I started me-tv again, the message about the old database
+>> appears - ~/.local/share/me-tv/ is there again, including the
+>> database.
+>>
+>> ----------------
+>>
+>> Now I installed me-tv (plus dependencies) on a Cauldron which has been
+>> updated since Alpha stage: exactly the same result.
+> 
+> Another user posted his erg.txt for me-tv - the relevant difference is
+> clear to see. His text says:
+> 
+> 05.05.2012 21:18:38: Required Database version: 6
+> 05.05.2012 21:18:38: Actual Database version: 6
+> 
+> Another user and I have the following text:
+> 
+> 05.05.2012 15:02:55: Required Database version: 6
+> 05.05.2012 15:02:55: Actual Database version: 0
+> 
+> "How come?" is the big question. This database is generated at the
+> start of me-tv. As you can see from the previous mail I erased the
+> whole directory in my home but it was regenerated including the
+> database by starting me-tv.
+
+What kind of database is this? Is it sqlite maybe... there was a post
+about sqlite earlier that had some strange issues with some join
+conditions. While I wouldn't expect this to be a problem for a query
+that checks a version number... you never know.
+
+Col
+
+
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+Colin Guthrie
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