[mythtvnz] Mythbuntu 16.04 user experiences

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:33:24 +1200, you wrote:

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>>
>> I have not found anything else that is a problem, so far.  I am sure
>> you can upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS if you do it in two steps
>> by upgrading to 14.04 first.  With an SSD that might not take too long
>> to do so it could be worth trying.  Running 12.04 from an SSD is
>> probably not a good thing to try as it does not have full support for
>> SSDs.  If the SSD is a SATA one, it will likely work, but I think
>> there will not be any fstrim support.  If the SSD is NVME (PCIe), it
>> likely will not have the right drivers.  Even with 16.04, the version
>> of smartmontools is not new enough to support my SSD Samsung 650 Pro
>> NVME SSD, so I had to manually install a newer version.
>>
>> With the MythTV upgrading, make sure you read all the release notes
>> for all the new versions between your current version and 0.28.  There
>> are some manual things you need to do on some upgrades, such as
>> install the extra timezone support needed for when MythTV converts to
>> using UTC instead of local time.
>>
>> Using the SQL command line need not involve fear, as you can easily
>> use it completely safely for queries without ever doing anything that
>> changes the database.  If you only use the show, desc and select
>> commands, there is no danger.  My most frequent use of SQL commands is
>> to do searches of the recorded, oldrecorded and program tables to see
>> if I have previously recorded or watched something.  I find that the
>> EPG here in NZ is so bad at times that MythTV will be re-recording an
>> entire series of something that has different EPG but I already have a
>> copy of.  An example is New Tricks, where the current series on UKTV
>> is the same as one I already have, and the descriptions mostly match,
>> but there are enough differences that mythbackend is re-recording them
>> all.
>>
>I'll look at the upgrade process again,but if I recall correctly, the  
>option was not available when I checked in April.I may be confusing it  
>with upgrading to 0.28 on 12.04 though.
>As it is I prefer to do fresh installs.Especially if I'm installing onto a  
>new drive.

One thing I have just thought of - if my memory is correct, it was in
the upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 that the changes to lirc happened,
where the drivers moved into the kernel.  So you may find that you
will have lirc problems after upgrading and will need a new lirc
config.