[mythtv-users] upgrading from mythbuntu 14.04/0.27 to 0.28 vs. mythbuntu 16.04 install

[John Finlay]

On 12/03/2016 03:09 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 2:07 PM John Finlay <finlay at moeraki.com 
> <mailto:finlay at moeraki.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/28/2016 04:04 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>     >
>     > On 11/26/2016 06:50 PM, Mark Cooke wrote:
>     >> Hi Jim,
>     >>
>     >> I did a 0.24 to 0.28 recently as a database backup, fresh
>     install to new
>     >> hardware, and a final restore.
>     >>
>     >> My storage configuration didn't change so the NFS mounts on the
>     backend
>     >> servers were identical.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> The basic process I followed was the backend migration from
>     >> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Backend_migration and it worked
>     pretty well,
>     >> so my thanks to everyone that helped put that together.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Things that caught me but were very minor:
>     >>
>     >> - Channel ID numbers changed on the new system (TBS6205) as
>     compared to
>     >> the old (Hauppauge dual SD tuner, and a Nova HD USB tuner), so
>     >> recordings made via the Nova appeared as #1234# instead of
>     using the
>     >> channel name.  This I fixed by editing the database and
>     updating the old
>     >> tags to match the new channel IDs and this was mostly a case of
>     changing
>     >> 2xxx to 1xxx.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> - Existing cutlists were lost.  I didn't manage to resolve
>     this, but it
>     >> was not important.[*]
>     >>
>     >> So for me, it was relatively painless.  The Mac 0.28 frontend
>     seems to
>     >> be a bit more glitchy on video playback and quite annoying in
>     sports
>     >> programmes, but I think that's 0.28 stressing out my 2011 mac
>     mini's
>     >> capabilities more than 0.24 did.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Hope that helps, and Good Luck!
>     >>
>     >> Mark
>     >>
>     >> [*] For anyone that does care - the cutlists appear to still be
>     there,
>     >> but going into the recording starts from the very beginning,
>     and trying
>     >> to edit brings up a blank cut list editor.  I think this is
>     related to
>     >> the direct database editing I did for the channel number issue
>     that goes
>     >> something out of step in the database.
>     > At this point, I backed up my database and went into mcc and
>     changed the
>     > repository to 0.28.  Then I did a sudo apt-get update, then sudo
>     apt-get
>     > upgrade, then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, and finally an sudo apt-get
>     > autoremove.
>     >
>     > Everything worked and the backend worked on reboot, but mythtv-setup
>     > would not work and mythfrontend would not work local or remote. 
>     I found
>     > that for remote frontends, I had to go back into MCC and set the
>     mySQL
>     > setting to enable remote frontends.  Somehow the upgrade reset that.
>     >
>     > For mythtv-setup, I had correct the password for the database it got
>     > reset to mythtv, but was correct in /etc/mythtv/config.xml
>     >
>     > Once I fixed those, I'm up and running.
>     >
>     > Jim A
>     >
>     >> On 26/11/2016 22:19, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>     >>> I have about 500GB of recorded TV on my mythbuntu 14.04
>     backend on version 0.27 of mythtv. I’m ready to upgrade to 0.28.
>     >>>
>     >>> I’m trying to pick the best way.
>     >>>
>     >>> I know I can use MCC and change the repository from 0.27 to
>     0.28 and do an upgrade in place (making sure I have a current
>     backup of the database).  I could then do a "do release upgrade"
>     and bring the OS to 16.04.
>     >>>
>     >>> Is that better than doing a fresh install of mythbuntu
>     16.04.1??  I’m worrying about restoring the 0.27 database backup
>     to 0.28 after I install 16.04 from scratch? I have my recording on
>     2 separate disk that will not be erased by a fresh install.
>     >>>
>     >>> Thoughts on how to do this right?
>     >>>
>     >>> Jim A
>     >>>
>     >>> _______________________________________________
>
>     On Mythbuntu 14.04 I tried to run MCC to change to 0.28 but it failed
>     and spit out some error messages in Python. So I removed and
>     reinstalled
>     MCC and that seemed to fix the startup problem but I couldn't get
>     MCC to
>     update the repositories. The message was: URL Error: Failed to
>     download
>     new DB .file.
>
>     Is the mythbuntu repo download site down or in MCC broken?
>
>     John
>     _______________________________________________
>
>
> The download URL changed in 16.04, which is why it's not working for 
> you in 14.04 (14.04 points to the old URL).
>
> You can always enable the repo manually from the command line by running
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/0.28

Thanks I enabled the repo manually and was able to update mythtv using 
software-updater but when I started myth-backend-setup it fails with a 
lot of messages in the terminal window "Failed to create OpenGL texture."

John
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