mythtv-backend fails to install in Hardy->Jaunty upgrade

[Alex Lowe]

Binary package hint: update-manager

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139

[Alex Lowe (lengau)]

Once I have finished the upgrade, I will try that install again.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

The error was
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Setting up mythtv-backend (0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu8) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/logrotate.d/mythtv-backend ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend ...
 * Starting MythTV server: mythbackend
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
invoke-rc.d: initscript mythtv-backend, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mythtv-backend (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139

Affecting to mythtv.

Are you able to reproduce it with a newer release ?

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This is generally caused by attempting to run mythbackend on an unsupported CPU. Newer builds are more strict upon their optimizations and require extra extensions to be supported that are not part of the standard x86 instruction set.

Additionally, your issue with the initscript failing has been resolved as we now use upstart.