<div dir="ltr"><div>I had issues with the actual upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 on every machine I've done (including two desktops). I didn't have any issues with mysql, but I did have problems with LIRC on the frontends, and ended up dropping it.</div><div>I've also had some odd delays when starting playback and when exiting the "watch recordings" menu. No one else seems to be having these particular issues, though--or at least no one has said so.</div><div>I don't remember the order I worked with the PPAs, except I rebuilt my backend from scratch since I had a hardware issue that prompted the upgrade in the first place.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Jason Zarin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason@zarin.org" target="_blank">jason@zarin.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Anyone make the leap yet?<div><br></div><div>So last time I went through this process (14.04 --> 16.04) it was a total unmitigated disaster as nothing worked afterwards. Apparently the combination of switching to systemd and a major upgrade to a new version of mysql just broke everything. I restored from backup and stayed on 14 for a while longer. waited until a slow weekend to do a complete 16.04 install from scratch and restored all the recordings and mythtv database and everything has been smooth sailing ever since.</div><div><br></div><div>Hopefully with fewer drastic changes under the hood, in-place upgrading to 18.04.1 will be less dramatic....</div><div><br></div><div>But what would be the best way to go about it given that the mythtv PPA is not part of the ubuntu distribution?</div><div><br></div><div>Options:</div><div><br></div><div>1. do an in-place do-release-upgrade, re-add the mythbuntu PPA afterwards and hope for the best?</div><div><br></div><div>2. remove the mythbuntu PPA before doing the upgrade, do-release-upgrade, and re-add the ppa? </div><div><br></div><div>3. apt remove (or purge?) mythtv* and other myth-related packages before doing the upgrade, do-release-upgrade, add the PPA and reinstall all the packages?</div><div><br></div><div>or 4. LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE and stay on 16.04 until 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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