[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu question

[Nicolas Krzywinski]

Am Dienstag, den 31.03.2015, 15:03 +0000 schrieb
mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org:
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> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:02:53 +0200
> From: Andr?as K?hne <andreas at kuhne.se>
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbuntu question
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> 2015-03-31 16:52 GMT+02:00 Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net>:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----From: Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>
> > Reply-to: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbuntu question
> > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 04:41:31 +0000
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 1:56 PM Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >         > On 28 Mar 2015, at 12:00 pm, "Stephen Worthington"
> >         <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> >         >
> >         >> On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:32:55 -0700, you wrote:
> >         >>
> >         >> I'm currently running Mythbuntu 0.28 / 14.04.  I'd like
> to do
> >         a clean
> >         >> install starting with 15.04 (want the newer linux core
> for
> >         its enhanced
> >         >> btrfs support).  I also use the machine as an Ubuntu
> Desktop.
> >         >>
> >         >> In the past, I've installed Mythbuntu and used Mythbuntu
> >         Control Centre to
> >         >> add the Ubuntu Desktop "role".  But I've occasionally had
> >         configuration/use
> >         >> issues (relating to some combination of gdm/lightdm and
> >         gnome/xfce/kde and
> >         >> auto-login) that made me think it's not exactly a
> "standard"
> >         Ubuntu
> >         >> install, i.e. the fixes for my problems were different
> than
> >         the fixes were
> >         >> for people with the same version vanilla Ubuntu).  But I
> >         really like the
> >         >> MythTV "environment" controlled by Mythbuntu Control
> Centre.
> >         Also when I
> >         >> try to upgrade distributions it just flat-out fails.
> >         >>
> >         >> So I'm thinking I will install the standard Ubuntu 15.04,
> >         then add
> >         >> Mythbuntu Control Centre/Myth after that.
> >         >>
> >         >> My question is: Is there anything wrong with that plan
> (like
> >         I'll miss some
> >         >> feature of Mythbuntu)?  Or am I just wasting my time and
> I
> >         should just
> >         >> install Mythbuntu 15.04 to begin with?
> >         >
> >         > Mythbuntu is only supported on LTS versions, so installing
> it
> >         on 15.04
> >         > might be problematic.  Have you considered whether you
> could
> >         get the
> >         > btrfs improvements by installing the Hardware Enablement
> Stack
> >         to get
> >         > a later kernel?  That allows you to still use a supported
> >         Mythbuntu
> >         > 14.04 version:
> >         >
> >         > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
> >         > _______________________________________________
> >
> >         So what will Mythbuntu do? Will there be a 14.04.02
> Mythbuntu or
> >         will it stick to 14.04.01 until 16.04?
> >         _______________________________________________
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> >         http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> >         MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org
> > There already is a 14.04.2
> >
> > ***
> > That is true but it still uses the same kernel as 14.04.1. It signs
> on
> > as:
> > Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-48-generic x86_64)
> >
> > mike
> >
> >
> >
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> > MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org
> >
> 
> 
> Ubuntu 14.04.2 comes with a 3.16 kernel according to the official
> release
> notes (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes). Are you sure
> you
> have updated the kernel on the machine (sometimes they are not updated
> automatically).
> 
> // Andr?as

My non-Mythbuntu (but Ubuntu) system is running on this configuration as
well:
        nsk at sesta09:~$ uname -a
        Linux sesta09 3.13.0-48-generic #80-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 12
        11:16:15 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
        nsk at sesta09:~$ lsb_release -a
        No LSB modules are available.
        Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
        Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
        Release:	14.04
        Codename:	trusty
        nsk at sesta09:~$ 

The 3.16 kernel is available via synaptic as well, but not installed
automatically on my system (installed updates yesterday and re-checked
this just now).

Not being the perfect Ubuntu software repository professional, I assume
this is because of the (meta?)package "linux-image-generic" that still
points on 3.13.0.48.55
There are other (meta?)packages, named
"linux-image-lowlatency-lts-utopic" and
"linux-image-generic-lts-utopic" (amongst others) that point to
3.16.0.33.26

So I may easiestly be possible to try out a newer kernel and switch back
to the older one, if there are problems.

Good luck,
Nicolas