I had Mythtv 0.28 working fine on Ubuntu 16.04. After updating Ubuntu to 18.04 my system was deemed unstable and so I formatted my hard disk and loaded Ubuntu 18.04 from USB stick
Sudo ltsp-build-client -mythbuntu -mythbuntu-user-credentials='your-user-id-here:your-password-here' For the credentials do not use 'mythtv' it will already be created. Later we will setup mythtv ID to auto-login. This will install the image to /opt/ltsp/i386. This will take awhile! Configure the DHCP server. For Untangle do the following. MythTV packages and Mythbuntu PPA, however, will continue to be available and updated at the same existing rate. The program developers encourage users who want to use MythTV to download a slim distro, like Xubuntu, and add the Mythbunutu Repos. Then, you can install and configure MythTV.
Mythbuntu can be used to install a full MythTV system on a single device (acting as both a client and a server). The front-end is the software required for the visual elements (or the GUI ) and is utilised by the common user to find, play, and manipulate media files.
Installing Mythbuntu The K45 doesn't have a slot for a CD drive, so I decided to install from a USB drive (my MP3 player). I downloaded the Mythbuntu 8.10 x86 ISO, and tried to use usb-creator to write it to the MP3 player.
I have followed the Mythtv installation instructions but have been unable to get Mythtv 0.29 to work on this new build with a Mythtv startup status of 'Waiting for database to start', changing to 'Database failed to start' I have reloaded Ubuntu maybe 20 times and tried various methods to load Mythtv but to no avail I have updated all the software to the latest versions. I have tried everything that I can think of including changing the Mythtv database password to that in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml but have exhausted my knowledge
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I am at my wits end and hoping that someone on the forum could advise what tests I could run to identify why Mythtv 0.29 will not work --- any help would be appreciated!