[mythtvnz] Moment of insanity

[toby at np.co.nz]

After 2 years of running my myth setup as solid as a rock, I had a moment
of insanity and decided to do a major upgrade.

I had been running Mythbuntu 8.04 with Myth 0.20. No reboots in over 6
months and the whole thing was running pretty sweet.

I decided I was getting a bit behind the times so made the leap, two ubuntu
major versions to 10.04 and all the way up to the latest stable + fixes
myth 23.

As far as upgrades go, it was pretty painless, sure everything broke, but
getting it all running again hasn't been too bad. Its not quite as stable
yet, but I think I'm getting there and its really only been a days work to
get it all running again.

I have quite a complex setup, I have one master backend and my friend (who
lives 1km away via a 24Mbps wifi link) is running a secondary backend. We
use cross mounted storage groups so that each of our recordings are stored
and streamed locally but we can still both access each others recordings.
All that is working fine and is much cleaner under 0.23. Clients are all
diskless and booting much faster as well but be warned, 10.04 drops support
for the gui based diskless configuration which was so sweet under 8.04. You
have to all the ltsp stuff by hand which is fine but a bit painful.

I have an outstanding nvidia driver issue on my main client but I'm sure I
will get this sorted. All my sky irblaster stuff still works and lirc seems
much easier to get running under 10.04 as well.

My only issue is that my PVR150 card keeps disappearing, the OS can see it,
but myth can't find it unless I go into mythtv-setup and exit out again and
then all of a sudden it springs into life with nothing of any note
appearing in any logs. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what is going
on with this? Its been nearly 5 years since I installed and configured it
and it kind of just worked back then so I'm at a bit of a loss on it.

Cheers
Toby


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