general advice for rolling back yum updates?

[Suvayu Ali]

On 06/03/10 04:50 PM, Mark Andrew Miller wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 10:47 -0500, Mark Andrew Miller wrote:
>> Hello, all.
>>
>> I recently ran a<yum update>  on my mythdora server, which updated my myth
>> applications from 0.22-1 to 0.22-5.  Now the mythfrontend application
>> terminates right after being launched and the log ends with
>>
>>
>> 2010-02-28 10:27:10.774 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
>> Floating point exception
>
> Try 'yum downgrade<list-of-apps>'.
>
> poc
>
> ---
>
> Thanks, Patrick.  After navigating a few circular dependencies, your
> suggestion allowed me to downgrade to the 0.22-2 versions of the myth
> applications.  (Maybe that's what I ran last, instead of my claimed 0.22-1.)
>
> However, I'm getting the same error message when launching mythfrontend.  I
> am reading various posts from mythtv discussion groups, but they haven't led
> to a solution yet.

I have no experience with myth tv, but how about eliminating 
misconfiguration as the cause? You could try creating a new user and 
running from there ...

>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

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