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mythtv debian package
ok so it installed well the first time.. gave me an error cause mysql
wasn't finished setting up (or hadn't been setup)

so then I tried running the config again and it keeps giving me errors. so
i tried removing and reinstalling same errors

here are the errors
any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated :)


prumedia:~# apt-get install mythtv
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mythtv
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1593kB of archives. After unpacking 3326kB will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package mythtv.
(Reading database ... 19961 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mythtv (from .../mythtv_0.7-10_i386.deb) ...
Setting up mythtv (0.7-10) ...
dpkg: error processing mythtv (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 160
Errors were encountered while processing:
mythtv
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



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Re: mythtv debian package [ In reply to ]
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:18:19PM -0500, David Vitrant wrote:

> ok so it installed well the first time.. gave me an error cause mysql
> wasn't finished setting up (or hadn't been setup)
>
> so then I tried running the config again and it keeps giving me errors. so
> i tried removing and reinstalling same errors
>
> here are the errors any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated :)

The workaround for this issue is to use "dpkg-reconfigure mythtv" to set a
password for the mythtv user. I have no idea why it is failing for some
people when generating a random password.

If I could get an account on a system where the problem is reproducible, I
can debug it.

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- mdz