[mythtv-users] using mythtv
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
Tue Jul 18 20:46:11 UTC 2006
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:04:53PM -0400, Phill Wiggin wrote:
> > Starting last Saturday afternoon I've been trying to upgrade from
> > 0.18 to 0.19. It's now Tuesday morning. Nearly 3 days and I cannot get
> > it to work. I cannot get the backend to run and connect to the
> > database. I had problems with MySQL updates. No fun at all and 3 days
> > of missed recordings.
> I'm going to put in a counter-point here. I also run Gentoo and
> upgraded from 0.18-0.19. I run multiple frontends (dedicated HTPC,
> laptop, xbox, XBMC) and my upgrade went very smoothly.
My experience was a mix between the two. On my backend machine I
was able to upgrade from 0.18 to 0.19 in just a few hours. The
database conversion went off without a hitch. The biggest problem
I ran into was the ever-changing library dependencies which
required me to uninstall a lot of programs and then reinstall them
again later.
My frontends are both broken right now, so my system is happily
recording lots of shows that I can't watch. The problem on my XBox
is that the Myth upgrade destroyed X11 and I haven't found an
Xorg-compatible device driver yet. On my desktop machine I have a
fully-functional X desktop that plays videos and music using every
other program, but when I launch Myth it locks up about 3 seconds
into the playback. When it locks up the mouse still works and I
can ping the box, but that's it. Everything else is dead so I
can't ssh in to see what's happening.
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