[mythtv-users] Zap2IT->SD upgraded MythTV 0.20 to 0.20.2 on FC6 kernel 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 SUCCESS

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:24:04PM -0400, Fred Firestine wrote:
> Thanks to all the people who were involved in making this a smooth
> transition. In my case, the upgrade from FC5 to FC6 was horrible, with
> every kernel-related component giving me trouble, and I had downtime
> for a month. Last night I started taking the steps towards "the
> switch" to SD and just thinking about the possibility of a kernel
> upgrade was giving me stress. Yeah, it's just TV, but it took a lot of
> work and time to get that last upgrade done. All this to express my
> great excitement that it took the following steps and I was done:
> 
> service mythbackend stop
> mysqldump -u root -p mythconverg -c > mythtv_backup20.sql
> yum -y upgrade \*myth\*
> service mythbackend start
> mythfilldatabase
> 
> There was a little trial and error about upgrading myth (upgrading
> mythtv-suite didn't work for me). I lost my channel icons a while ago,
> maybe in the FC5-FC6 upgrade, and I can't seem to get them back. No
> big deal. I'll keep an eye on the schedule for a while (all of
> September I guess) but it looks great so far.

Yes, that's actually worth posting on the wiki, believe it or not.  :-)

	http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Upgrading

Cheers,
-- jra
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