[mythtv-users] Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS do-release-upgrade with Mythtv

[Jim Abernathy]

On 11/5/18 3:48 PM, James Abernathy wrote:
>> On Oct 7, 2018, at 11:37 AM, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 08:02:02 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>> Has anybody who has a working Ubuntu 16.04.5 system with mythtv backend
>>> V29 been brave enough to run do-release-upgrade and see what happens?
>>>
>>> And No I'm not that brave.
>>>
>>> Jim A
>>
> After getting 18.04 working on my test system with Mythtv v29 I did the upgrade in place on my production system.
>
> Most things are working. My RAID 1 with all my shows come over okay. My frontends can watch live and recorded shows.
>
> We’ll see tonight if the scheduled shows get recorded.
>
> The only thing I see issues with is mythweb.  If I try to go to 192168.0.250 using Chrome, I get Connection refused. On my clean install of 18.04 and mythtv, mythweb worked fine.
>
I got an absolutely brilliant idea :-) and removed mythweb with 'sudo 
apt remove mythweb'.  Then I 'sudo apt install mythplugins'

Now mythweb works fine on 18.04 just like it did on the fresh install.

Jim A


>>
>> 12) anacron seems to be running the daily cron jobs at a different
>> time - about an hour earlier than it used to.  I have changed the
>> /etc/crontab settings back to the old times, but I will have to wait
>> until tomorrow to see if that fixes it.  The old times were normally a
>> time when I do not have any recordings happening, or only one
>> recording.  Having the cron jobs run earlier was a problem as the
>> system could be too busy at the time and have recordings fail due to
>> the huge overheads on the database when it is checked and backed up by
>> anacron.
> This I will have to play with
>
> Jim A
>
>