[mythtvnz] Moment of insanity

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:06 PM, toby at np.co.nz <toby at np.co.nz> wrote:
>
> 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 am contemplating doing an LTS->LTS upgrade on my backend, then
frontends to follow. What sort of problems did you have (other than
the ones you have listed, or that were peculiar to your wireless
linked backends setup)

>
> 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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