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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/03/2016 03:09 PM, Thomas Mashos
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 2:07 PM John Finlay <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:finlay@moeraki.com"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:finlay@moeraki.com">finlay@moeraki.com</a></a>>
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11/28/2016 04:04 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:<br
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> On 11/26/2016 06:50 PM, Mark Cooke wrote:<br
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>> Hi Jim,<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> I did a 0.24 to 0.28 recently as a database backup,
fresh install to new<br class="gmail_msg">
>> hardware, and a final restore.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> My storage configuration didn't change so the NFS
mounts on the backend<br class="gmail_msg">
>> servers were identical.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> The basic process I followed was the backend
migration from<br class="gmail_msg">
>> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Backend_migration"
rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Backend_migration</a>
and it worked pretty well,<br class="gmail_msg">
>> so my thanks to everyone that helped put that
together.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> Things that caught me but were very minor:<br
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>> - Channel ID numbers changed on the new system
(TBS6205) as compared to<br class="gmail_msg">
>> the old (Hauppauge dual SD tuner, and a Nova HD USB
tuner), so<br class="gmail_msg">
>> recordings made via the Nova appeared as #1234#
instead of using the<br class="gmail_msg">
>> channel name. This I fixed by editing the database
and updating the old<br class="gmail_msg">
>> tags to match the new channel IDs and this was
mostly a case of changing<br class="gmail_msg">
>> 2xxx to 1xxx.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> - Existing cutlists were lost. I didn't manage to
resolve this, but it<br class="gmail_msg">
>> was not important.[*]<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> So for me, it was relatively painless. The Mac
0.28 frontend seems to<br class="gmail_msg">
>> be a bit more glitchy on video playback and quite
annoying in sports<br class="gmail_msg">
>> programmes, but I think that's 0.28 stressing out
my 2011 mac mini's<br class="gmail_msg">
>> capabilities more than 0.24 did.<br
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>> Hope that helps, and Good Luck!<br
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>> Mark<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> [*] For anyone that does care - the cutlists appear
to still be there,<br class="gmail_msg">
>> but going into the recording starts from the very
beginning, and trying<br class="gmail_msg">
>> to edit brings up a blank cut list editor. I think
this is related to<br class="gmail_msg">
>> the direct database editing I did for the channel
number issue that goes<br class="gmail_msg">
>> something out of step in the database.<br
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> At this point, I backed up my database and went into
mcc and changed the<br class="gmail_msg">
> repository to 0.28. Then I did a sudo apt-get update,
then sudo apt-get<br class="gmail_msg">
> upgrade, then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, and finally an
sudo apt-get<br class="gmail_msg">
> autoremove.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Everything worked and the backend worked on reboot, but
mythtv-setup<br class="gmail_msg">
> would not work and mythfrontend would not work local or
remote. I found<br class="gmail_msg">
> that for remote frontends, I had to go back into MCC
and set the mySQL<br class="gmail_msg">
> setting to enable remote frontends. Somehow the
upgrade reset that.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> For mythtv-setup, I had correct the password for the
database it got<br class="gmail_msg">
> reset to mythtv, but was correct in
/etc/mythtv/config.xml<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Once I fixed those, I'm up and running.<br
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> Jim A<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> On 26/11/2016 22:19, Jim Abernathy wrote:<br
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>>> 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.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>> I’m trying to pick the best way.<br
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>>> 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.<br
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>>> 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.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>> Thoughts on how to do this right?<br
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>>> Jim A<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>> _______________________________________________<br
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On Mythbuntu 14.04 I tried to run MCC to change to 0.28 but
it failed<br class="gmail_msg">
and spit out some error messages in Python. So I removed and
reinstalled<br class="gmail_msg">
MCC and that seemed to fix the startup problem but I
couldn't get MCC to<br class="gmail_msg">
update the repositories. The message was: URL Error: Failed
to download<br class="gmail_msg">
new DB .file.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Is the mythbuntu repo download site down or in MCC broken?<br
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John<br class="gmail_msg">
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<div>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).</div>
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<div>You can always enable the repo manually from the command
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<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:12px">sudo
add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/0.28</span> </div>
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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."<br>
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John<br>
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