<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 9:55 AM Jan Ceuleers <<a href="mailto:jan.ceuleers@gmail.com">jan.ceuleers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 21/11/2018 18:26, Will Dormann wrote:<br>
> With the upcoming EOL status of Ubuntu 14.04, I'm considering upgrading<br>
> my MythBuntu box to 16.04. I had seen a recent thread about caveats of<br>
> upgrading to 18.04 and it was a bit too long for my liking so I'll<br>
> probably wait until the dust settles there a bit before attempting that.<br>
> <br>
> Anyway, I have an up-to-date 14.04 box with MythTV 0.28 fixes. The OS<br>
> itself is a bit customized over the years that I've had it, so I'd<br>
> prefer to go the clean-install and DB-restore route.<br>
> <br>
> For anybody who has gone from 14.04 to 16.04 recently (or remembers that<br>
> it took), is there a list of gotchas or other things that may not go as<br>
> expected? Perhaps obviously, I'll be starting with creating a full OS<br>
> backup, and I'll plan to stick with 0.28 until I'm comfortable that<br>
> 16.04 is working well.<br>
<br>
I have done this a few months ago and it was quite painless. Even IR<br>
blasting still works properly.<br>
<br>
The only issue I still have to this day is linked to the use of systemd:<br>
I have not been successful at getting systemd to wait for the tuners<br>
before starting the backend. I managed it on my slave backend (which has<br>
the same type of tuners as the ones connected to the master backend),<br>
but the master's mythtv-backend.service starts without waiting for the<br>
tuners despite the near-identical configuration with the slave.<br>
_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I had lots of problems many of which were solved with help from various people on this list. Here are some notes I just compiled. Hope this helps you</div><div><br></div><div>HowTo Mythbuntu 16.04</div><div><br></div><div>Have at least 4GB Memory. I upgraded to 6GB. System did not work well with 2GB</div><div><br></div><div>If settings are lost and TV starts up blank</div><div>Get video set as desired</div><div>Run nvidia-settings and saved xorg.conf.</div><div>Disable xfsettingsd in the GUI Settings under "Session and Startup": That fixed the TV power cycle problem.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>To get mythweb to work edit mythtv.conf to look like this</div><div>$ more mythtv.cnf</div><div>[mysqld]</div><div>#bind-address=::</div><div>max_connections=100</div><div>sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION</div><div><br></div><div>To install a video card driver</div><div> 1) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa </div><div> 2) sudo apt update</div><div> 3) Then launch Software & Updates -> Additional Driver utility, choose the new driver from the list and apply changes.</div><div><br></div><div>Re VDPAU.</div><div>Set VDPAU Normal, Auto, and Video override to 16:9 and it plays</div><div><br></div><div>EIT disabled as when it was enabled it overwrote my Schedules Direct listings so I only got listings for a day or so.</div><div><br></div><div>I had issues with sound but my setup might be unique.</div><div><br></div><div>edited rc.local</div><div><br></div><div><b>#!/bin/sh -e</b></div><div><b>echo -n 15 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold</b></div><div><b>hdhomerun_config 10137DC1 set /ir/target "<a href="http://192.168.1.111:5000">192.168.1.111:5000</a> no_clear"</b></div><div><b>#this is a hack. I dont' know what is starting lircd</b></div><div><b>killall lircd</b></div><div><b>lircd -H udp -d 5000</b></div><div><b>exit 0</b></div><div> </div><div>Allen</div></div></div></div>