[mythtv-users] FE instability - time to start fresh on new install?

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 16/11/17 20:18, Tim Draper wrote:
> i've been doing a number of changes to my primary FE recently which includes the following:
> - in place upgrade mythtbuntu 14.04LTS to 16.04LTS
> - migrate from IR to bluetooth signal from myharmony remote
> - move from power-off IR wake to s3 sleep/resume from USB (bluetooth module is classed as USB)
> 
> unfortunately, thats shown a number of bugs.
> 1) 16.04 has a 'wont fix' suspend bug where it appears to crash/freeze during the S3 state so is essentially useless to rely upon.
> 2) i try to switch to keeping the FE on 24/7, but so far has resulted in it randomly freezing up between using the FE - no network connectivity or display on the TV. so far since change to always-on, if i leave it overnight+work and come home in the evening it means a hard power-off of the FE to make it useable.
> 
> instead of trying to fix this, i think starting from scratch would be best - no residual stray hacky scripts running that i've forgotten about, and a fresh clean start on the OS to eliminate any potential upgrade related issues that may be causing the long term instability.
> 
> problem is, which distro to move to? i've never been much of a fan of ubuntu since about 2years into my linux dabbling (i always seem to encounter long standing bugs). My current distro of choice is Fedora. but the high release rate is starting to grind a bit, so probably not the best for hassle free TV. 
> i'm thinking centos due to the long release cycles, but short of playing with each potential distro on the mythtv wiki (theres a big list of them), i'm not sure if this is the right way. I do use centos at work so fairly familiar with it and will likely use it for the BE when i rebuild that from a fedora26 build (yeah, in hindsight, fedora probably isnt the best choice for a server!)
> 
> probably doesnt matter, but FE hardware is a 2820 celeron NUC.
> 

There is nothing wrong with running things on Fedora, provided
you don't mind doing an upgrade every 6 months or so.

The majority of our users are on Ubuntu, primarily I believe
because of MythBuntu. Even though MythBuntu has ceased to be
built, the mythtv packages continue to be built for Ubuntu.

I run both Ubuntu and Fedora, my backend system runs
Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS and I have frontends on Ubuntu LTS,
f25 and f26

So it's really down to what you prefer.

Although there is currently one caveat on Fedora 26 I need
to sort out, which is VAAPI doesn't work when you use wayland [1]
but if you use Xorg it works just fine.
(For the NUC this does matter)


Regards
Stuart

[1] - https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13104