[mythtv-users] Incomming WAF Problem: NFS "Crashing" on Jaunty

[Brian Wood]

On Friday 05 June 2009 19:57:00 Nick F wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Douglas Wagner <douglasw0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Did a double network upgrade (8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04).  The upgrade got
> > hung up in the 8.10 ->9.04 side with some symbolic links to NFS shares
> > and didn't install correctly.  Removing and adding a few packages
> > (basically a readd of the mythbuntu consolidated package) fixed the issue
> > and has the machine up and running.
> >
> > The root cause seems to be myth being unable to read from NFS.  I can
> > unmount but not remount the NFS shares.  Restarting NFS-COMMON doesn't
> > seem to help.
>
> I had an issue when upgrading one of my frontends from 8.10 to 9.04.  The
> network upgrade failed (with an error message about nfs).  I mucked around
> for a while - but in the end just wiped the HDD and installed Jaunty from
> scratch using a CD.  It didn't bother me too much reinstalling - being a
> frontend I was up and running in a hour or so.  I copied back my backed-up
> fstab and everything, including nfs mounts, worked fine.  I tend to leave
> this particular frontend on 24x7 and it 's rock-solid and has never dropped
> a nfs mount.

Hey folks, some of us don't run Ubuntu or Mythbuntu, so when you say something 
about "upgrading" a Myth frontend, then give a couple of Ubuntu version 
numbers, weak-minded people like me tend to get confused.

We were discussing Myth upgrades, (having wandered off topic from the initial 
NFS problem). Do you mean you upgraded the OS without touching anything Myth, 
or do you mean you upgraded from one Mythbuntu version to another, which 
would seem to include both an OS and a Myth version upgrade? Or did you mean 
upgrading the OS, then manually installing an updated Myth version?

I can see a benefit to Mythbuntu tracking Ubuntu release numbers, Mythdora 
moved to a similar scheme with FC version #s, but it means simply mentioning 
a version number could mean different things.

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