NextTool merge error

[Jack_Burton505]

Hello

I am attempting to complete the move of NextPVR from version 4 on a Windows computer to version 7 on linux.  I've got NextPVR up and running on the linux computer and everything is great.  Now I'm attempting to get my library of recordings from the Windows computer to show up on the linux system.  So far what I've done is:

Add a NAS to the network, create a shared folder for the old NPVR recordings, and copy all of the recordings to the new share.
Copy the old NPVR database and other config and backup files to a different shared folder on the NAS (the copy was updated immediately prior to attempting to run NextTool).
Make sure there are no permission issues with any of these file shares (all good).
Add the NextTool files to /opt/nextpvr/system and create the soft links as instructed in the wiki.
Reboot the linux system.
Backup the database, config, etc files on the new linux setup (immediately prior to attempting to run NextTool).
Attempt to run NextTool with the following command:

sudo -u nextpvr /opt/dotnet/dotnet /opt/nextpvr/system/NextTool.dll --merge /mnt/badcorginas_share/Configuration

This was the result:

A fatal error was encountered.  The library 'libhostpolicy.so' required to execute the application was not found in 'opt/nextpvr/system/'.
Failed to run as a self-contained app.
 - The application was run as a self-contained app because '/opt/nextpvr/system/NextTool.runtimeconfig.json' was not found.
 - If this should be a framework-dependent app, add the '/opt/nextpvr/system/NextTool.runtimeconfig.json' file and specify the appropriate framework.

(Note:  any typos in those results are mine since I'm logged in here on a different computer and I couldn't just cut and paste.)

So where do I get the libhostpolicy.so?  Is that a standard linux download from somewhere?
Also, in the zip file I downloaded to get NextTool the runtimeconfig.json file is called NextEnd.runtimeconfig.json.  Is that a typo?

Any help you can give me is much appreciated.

[mvallevand]

This is confusing NextTool.runtimeconfig.json' was not found.

Does that file exist in /opt/nextpvr/system where you extracted the 2.50 zip?

You are missing the npvr.db3 on the --merge too but that is unrelated.

Martin

[Jack_Burton505]

Hi, sorry for the delay. Because of the permissions on /opt/nextpvr/system I extracted the four files in the zip to a directory in the home folder, then did a sudo copy of the three (not the .exe), which are NextTool.dll, NextTool.deps.json, and NextEnd.runtimeconfig.json.

As for the npvr.db3, I did copy it to the location I used in the command. Do I need to run the command pointed at the location where the original V4 installation is running now?

[mvallevand]

Sorry my mistake I missed that, the file should be renamed form NextEnd.runtimeconfig.json to NextTool.runtimeconfig.json.

Martin

[Jack_Burton505]

I'll give it a go.

[Jack_Burton505]

Okay, I changed the file name and re ran the command from the original post. This time I got:

Error:
An assembly specified in the application dependencies manifest (NextTool.deps.json) was not found:
package: 'ExifLib.Standard', version: 'EsifLib.Standard'
path: 'ExifLib.Standard.dll"

[Jack_Burton505]

Sorry, version is also 'ExifLib.Standard"

[mvallevand]

I guess I uploaded the wrong zip to GitHub. Use the dll from 2.4 https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/uti...-2.4.0.zip they are the same.

Martin

[Jack_Burton505]

Will do, trying it now.

[Jack_Burton505]

Okay, this time got this:

Error:
An assembly specified in the application dependencies manifest (NextTool.deps.json) was not found:
package: 'Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions', version: 'Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions'
path: 'Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions.dll"