Does work in 810/1004

I would be very interested to hear if it works in 710. If you run the script without the --dodbdelete option it is non-destructive. It will either spit a list (which means it will work) or it will break.

Would appreciate your feedback.

I am working on putting a button in web admin under the "Delete ALL missing files from database". The first click runs the script to detect in an execute log window, then a popup confirmation should actually delete. I figure this is better than two separate buttons.

I don't know how people will hose their db in the future, and believe there should be a way to preview the changes before committing them.

Change lines 51 and 52 from:

Code:

my $opt_user = "mythtv";
my $opt_pass = "mythtv";

to

Code:

my $opt_user = "";
my $opt_pass = "";

and run

Code:

./myth.find_orphans.pl --dodbdelete

If you are trusting. Running the file by itself will first show you the list of orphans/unregistered files. Works well. Output is too verbose to show.
 

All better now on my end of the pike.

I keep upgrading, and reverting back because I continue to have this problem.

Everyone is listening, however the problem persists. Something is wrong. I thought initially that rebuilding the MDs, including hybrid, would solve the issue, however it does not.

I can tell you that when DVD menus hit the orbiter, the orbiters lock up, and eventually crash. The MD continues to play for about 30 seconds, but control is eratic, and even if you manage playback, it crashes and reloads. You can circumvent this by playing chapters from orbiter on left hand side. At least on series, you must head off ending by moving to the next chapter before previous chapter end.

The left side menu does not populate unless you hit menu a few times through initial play, and appears to be dependent on the type of DVD.

Hello,

I freshly install Kubuntu 10.04 i386 then for LMCE 0810, I following instructions from here:

               http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Installing_1004



1) No sound over HDMI

    What am I suppose to submit in terms of information hopefully to get a fix in the next release?

    GIGABYTE GA-MA78GPM-DS2H (AMD 780G + SB700 Chipset)

     Update: I cancel the Wizard and went in KDE Desktop.  I receive a pop up saying :

     KDE Detected that one or more internal sound devices were removed.
     Do you want KDE to permanently forget about these devices.
       Output: HDA ATI HDMI , ATI HDMI (HDMI Audio Output)

ATI + HDMI. Yuck.
Do not interrupt the wizard. If you want to try something, that may help both of us, http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=11743.0
Download that attached script, when you get to wizard, open a shell and edit that file into existence somewhere, follow the directions to run it, and please paste the output. This will A) tell me what hardware is seen, and B) quite possibly resolve your issue.

2) Alarm Panel

    According to the setup, there are Plug n Play Alarm Panel?  I went to the Tutorial found here :

    http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Category:Tutorials

    Regardless if it's plug n play or not, there's not a single tutorial on the alarm panel and can't find a page that lists those 'plug n play' panels.

The VistaICM2 driver controlls Honeywell/Ademco panels. A thousand years ago when I looked, the specific models were no longer being manufactured.

3) Home Automation Adapter

    When it was time for me to 'select' my adapter, I forgot to plug my Insteon adapter... so a message showed up on the screen telling no home auto modules could be found but there was a list of supported adapters.  I didn't see Insteon in the list.  Is it officially supported or not, if so why not put it in the list?


Thank you.

Someone has just recently implemented a lot of Insteon stuff (like this week). I have seen chatter about it but know almost nothing.

Found out there are no stock numbers on discontinued items.  The fellow there told me that they are only at corporate stores and not franchise stores.  I have looked at other stores but have not found any more z-wave stuff. 
Randy

HOWEVER...

They do store to store shipping for free. So buy corporate and have it shipped locally.

The backup/restore process is a little more tricky. 

The database is updated as the core is upgraded...  Subsequent MD updates may have minor updates/changes applied to the database.  Restoring the database from a backup would mean that the database information will be out of sync with the installed packages on the core.  So a database restore should only be performed if the CORE packages would be restored to their original state as well.  This is probably best done, by the user, through a clonezilla image or other external backup system.  Perhaps there is a way to store a list of the upgraded packages to restore them at the same time as a database restore...  This seems like it'd be pretty flaky.

Restoring a 'live' MD (one that is running) that had been upgraded through SSH means that the MD in question cannot simply be 'restored' from the backup directly.  The machine would have to be powered down for the /usr/pluto/diskless/XX directory to be removed and then un-tar'd.  Tricky, especially if someone is using the MD in question at the time.

Restoring an MD that is not running (updated through chroot) is trivial.  The directory can be removed and restored from the .tar archive.  Unless the MD is booted partway through the update/restore process...  This would present an issue.

Yes. I have to do something much more substantial to prevent this from occurring. I am intending now to use the General_Info_Plugin to show progress in pending tasks, and I need to lock certain tasks like reboots, and work out a scheme to prevent MD booting while this process happens.

I think there are some big issues that would need to be addressed before any kind of restore capability could be implemented.

I think you are right. That is now backburner, and once I get everything else licked I will look at it again.

Other notes:
Use a variable for the DATE in your script, otherwise it is possible for a user to start the script one day and have the initial tar-ing of the backup archive, or the upgrades, take long enough it rolls over to the next day.  For instance, lets say I start the script at 11:55pm, it tars for 20 minutes, and upgrades for 20 minutes.  Later in the script the backup archive and the backed-up sources.list files will not be found because the date has rolled over to the next day...  Perhaps just don't use the date in the backup name, unless you see a need for it to be there.

The problem I was trying to overcome by using the date, was in which people did an upgrade, and it did not produce the desired results, and they ran it again, it would hose the good backup. The worst thing to happen from the backup not being found, over the midnight hour, would be that a second backup would occur. This also protects the original sources.list from being overwritten... of course that could happen a different way.

Code:

mv /usr/pluto/diskless/$moonDir/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d{,.lmce-update}
mv /usr/pluto/diskless/$moonDir/sbin/start-stop-daemon{,.lmce-update}
echo -en '#!/bin/bash\necho "WARNING: fake invoke-rc.d called"\n' > /usr/pluto/diskless/$moonDir/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
echo -en '#!/bin/bash\necho "WARNING: fake start-stop-daemon called"\n' > /usr/pluto/diskless/$moonDir/sbin/start-stop-daemon
chmod +x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
chmod +x /sbin/start-stop-daemon

The first 4 lines, above, affect the desired scripts in the MDs directories.  The 2 final 'chmod' lines unfortunately are affecting the files on the core, not the MDs where you just created the diversion scripts.  Those two lines need to point to the /usr/pluto/diskless/XX/... structure so the appropriate files are affected.

Yes... I thought I fixed that... and I am also moving those on the core because I believe something in them affects the MDs... but I was confused on this issue. I will figure out exactly what they do and what I need to do. Thank you very much.

Code:

rsh moon$moonDir apt-get update || /bin/true
rsh moon$moonDir apt-get -f -y upgrade
rsh moon$moonDir apt-get upgrade -f -y --force-yes

In this code the middle line should be 'apt-get upgrade -f -y install', rather than the two 'upgrade' commands.

Yes... yes it should.

Code:

cat /usr/pluto/diskless/$moonDir/etc/apt/sources.list-`date +%Y%m%d`.bak > /usr/pluto/diskless/$moonDir/etc/apt/sources.list

Are you using 'cat' here for a specific purpose?  I would use 'mv' here rather than cat.  Unless you see a need to maintain lots of chronological backup files.  Again, perhaps drop the date portion and use another file extension (such as .lmce-update) or something else.  This can be done with the 'mv' command and using {..}, like the backup of the scripts.

I tend to use cat to avoid confirmation issues. That just overwrites the file.

Code:

cp -ru /var/cache/apt/archives/* /usr/pluto/deb-cache

This line doesn't need the 'r' option.  I would also alter this and 'mv' (move) the files rather than duplicating them and comsuming the extra HD space.  The only files that need to be affected here are the '*.deb' files, you don't want to move any sub-directories from ../apt/archives/ to ../pluto/deb-cache/ -- just the .deb files.

I had a weirdo nVidia folder so I did for good measure... I went back and forth on cp vs mv. I am not a big fan of duplication. I will change it.

The cleanup trap should probably umount the bound deb-cache folder for the chroot updated MDs.

Wow, lots to look at!  Keep it up!

J.

You are right... it should. I thought:

Code:

            umount /usr/pluto/diskless/$moonDir/usr/pluto/deb-cache

would do that.
It is so incredibly helpful to have fresh eyes reading giving feedback.

The latest script has a cheap global alert up to remind not to interfere with the process. I actually built a ridiculous graphic progress meter for it... but didn't bother including it because I need to do it the right way.

http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/ticket/341

There is no management. There cannot be by virtue of the medium. Do what you want. Those who maintain and hold licenses will accept or reject your work. If that hurts your feelings, go do something else.

I want this project to exist. I am a pretty good manager. I could not have managed this project into existence.

A poor workman blames his tools.

It is not the fault of "management" that you aren't doing your job.

That goes for me too.


*I'll also tell you something else... if you develop something brilliant, and integrate it properly... and execute it flawlessly... it will make it in, feature freeze or not.

Of course there is little risk of me being a liar, because nobody is integrating things properly even on a pedestrian level. In my esteem there is a feature freeze because bugs need to be quashed. There are programming tasks because eventually there will not be a feature freeze, and the tasks are designed to teach you the fundamentals of the system, which should help you quash bugs.

Manage that.

Maybe stupid question.
But why not leave everything unmuted?

In my past experience, leaving channels open that are not used causes some low level cross hum. I haven't had that experience in linux... but old habits die hard. I also assume that some level of energy is being used unnecessarily, no matter how minute. I also have a superstition that multiple cards compound this issue. Just leaving everything open felt like a cheap hack not worthy of LMCE.

In truth there is probably no issue doing it... it just felt weak... with theoretical downsides, and a clear solution using the existing elements to eliminate it.

I am running out the door, but just wanted to comment on the Packages thing...

It does indeed create a Packages file, then zips it up.

Code:

# dpkg-scanpackages /usr/pluto/deb-cache /dev/null | gzip -9c > /usr/pluto/deb-cache/Packages.gz
  ** Packages in archive but missing from override file: **
  acpi-support acpid adept akregator alsa-base alsa-modules-2.6.27-15-
  generic alsa-source alsa-utils amarok amarok-common amarok-engine-
  xine ansi2html ansi2html-source apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-
  utils apache2.2-common apparmor apparmor-utils apport apport-qt apt
  apt-utils apturl ark asterisk-perl asterisk-pluto attr autofs avahi-
  autoipd avahi-daemon avahi-utils base-files bin86 bind9 bind9-host
  bind9utils build-essential busybox-initramfs ca-certificates chan-
  sccp cmake comerr-dev command-not-found command-not-found-data
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  source fglrx-modaliases file firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.0-
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  libbind9-40 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0
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  libcups2 libcups2-dev libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-dev libcurl3
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  libdns44 libdv4 libesd0-dev libevent1 libexpat1 libexpat1-dev
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  libokularcore1 libopenexr6 libopenobex1 liborbit2 libossp-uuid15
  libpam-ck-connector libpam-gnome-keyring libpam-modules libpam-
  runtime libpam0g libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpangomm-1.4-1
  libparted-1.8-8 libparted-1.8-dbg libparted-1.8-dev libparted-1.8-
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  nvidia-180-modaliases nvidia-195-kernel-source nvidia-195-libvdpau
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Yes... this is all correct. The problem with the current script is that it only affects a couple of devices, as you said, and does not take into account multiple cards. While I am sending commands that cannot be used by certain devices, it causes no problems. Many things cannot be muted/unmuted or levels set. For everything else... there's this.

A lot of people report HDMI sound is not working simply because the proper channels are not unmuted. My idea was to blow everything open that can be open, and then after AVWizard sets device data in the DB, to mute everything except Master* and the used channels. Everything has different nomenclature for Alsa by manufacturer, so this seemed the best way to me to ensure that whatever is chosen is available... then on AVWizard close, rewrite the unmute script to mute save those listed as necessary.

Your help and insight is always appreciated.

Your first, and deal killing, problem will be the wifi. It simply isn't strong/consistent enough to do what you want.

They make awesome orbiters though.

Hi Josh,

As posde said, the automation portions of the system are available, by design, to visually impaired people. Integrating voice is something I have been flirting with, but opens a big can of worms in a system that does not have a release candidate yet. This would be a feature enhancement, and feature enhancements are verboten until we make it to release. On that magic date, voice integration is on my personal list of things to explore, but we are also a worldwide project. Everyone does not speak English. Everyone does not speak English with an American accent. It starts to get big quickly, especially if your media is in a language other than your own.

That being said, people are free to alter the software to suit their needs. If you would like to dig in, I will help in any way I can. One of my favorite software developers is blind. I do not view a blind user as any different than any other user. If you want it, like any other user, you are free to build it. I hope you take this in the spirit intended.

Had you been in KDE and switched back to the orbiter?