[mythtv-users] SPAM-LOW: Upgrading from MythBuntu 14.04 to 16.04 - Potential issues?

[stevegoodey at spamcop.net]

On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 17:26:41 GMT Will Dormann wrote:
> With the upcoming EOL status of Ubuntu 14.04, I'm considering upgrading
> my MythBuntu box to 16.04.  I had seen a recent thread about caveats of
> upgrading to 18.04 and it was a bit too long for my liking so I'll
> probably wait until the dust settles there a bit before attempting that.
> 
> Anyway, I have an up-to-date 14.04 box with MythTV 0.28 fixes.  The OS
> itself is a bit customized over the years that I've had it, so I'd
> prefer to go the clean-install and DB-restore route.
> 
> For anybody who has gone from 14.04 to 16.04 recently (or remembers that
> it took), is there a list of gotchas or other things that may not go as
> expected?   Perhaps obviously, I'll be starting with creating a full OS
> backup, and I'll plan to stick with 0.28 until I'm comfortable that
> 16.04 is working well.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> -WD
> _______________________________________________

I went with a clean 16.04 install/mythtv 29 with a database restore.

Sound did not work so I had to cycle through Frontend, setup, audio, options until I got one 
that worked.

As others have mentioned I had to delay startup until the USB tuners had initialised. I went 
for the mythbackend.service option

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/
Systemd_mythbackend_Configuration#Delay_starting_the_backend_until_tuners_have_initi
alized

-- 
Regards, Steve Goodey
Colchester, England
mailto://steve@goodey.org
Registered Linux User #372670 http://counter.li.org

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