[mythtvnz] Mythbuntu 16.04 user experiences

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:31:11 +1200, you wrote:

>On 20/07/16 20:57, Robert Fisher wrote:
>> On 20/07/16 10:07, Nick Rout wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 8:00 AM, worik <worik.stanton at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:worik.stanton at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 18/07/16 13:07, Paulgir wrote:
>>>     > Hi All
>>>     >
>>>     > Those who have already updated to Mythbuntu 16.04,how is it going?I
>>>     > noted that people where experiencing problems,initially.
>>>     > I'm thinking of upgrading when 16.04.1 comes out shortly.
>>>
>>>     I am more interested in reasons to change.  I am on 14.04 with 0.27
>>>
>> Well I went back and did a fresh installation of MythBuntu 16.04 and I 
>> think that I am nearly there.
>> Certainly not as easy as 14.04 though.
>>
>> I can play, pause, FF etc. live TV from my Kodi frontend and also 
>> record from the frontend.
>>
>> The EPG does not seem to be fully populated even though 
>> mythfilldatabase runs with no errors.
>>
>> My main problem now is with mythweb.
>> Backend status seems OK.
>Well (further testing needed) I may have cracked it.
>
>I found this
>https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12713
>Which suggested editing /etc/mysql/conf.d/mythtv.cnf
>to
>
>[mysqld]
>#bind-address=0.0.0.0
>max_connections=100
>sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION
>
>This seems to have mythweb working OK. (I hope I am not speaking too soon)
>The EPG in Mythweb seems fine although not on my Kodi frontend yet.
>
>I also had this problem *Mythbuntu 16.04 Fresh Install - always starts 
>MythTV Setup on boot *
>and found this http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/601385
>and this https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2320224
>
>The fix for me was...
>Short version of solution that worked for me:
>copy /lib/systemd/system/mythtv-backend.service to /etc/systemd/system/
>edit /etc/systemd/system/mythtv-backend.service and insert the line 
>ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/nm-online --quiet --timeout=5 above the existing 
>ExecStartPre=... line.
>reboot

That does not sound like the correct way to do it with systemd - I
would have thought it needed to use a .target that would signal when
everything was ready.  But if it works...