[mythtv-users] using mythtv

[chris at cpr.homelinux.net]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:04:53PM -0400, Phill Wiggin wrote:
> >    Starting last Saturday afternoon I've been trying to upgrade from
> > 0.18 to 0.19. It's now Tuesday morning. Nearly 3 days and I cannot get
> > it to work. I cannot get the backend to run and connect to the
> > database. I had problems with MySQL updates. No fun at all and 3 days
> > of missed recordings.
> I'm going to put in a counter-point here.  I also run Gentoo and
> upgraded from 0.18-0.19. I run multiple frontends (dedicated HTPC,
> laptop, xbox, XBMC) and my upgrade went very smoothly.

My experience was a mix between the two.  On my backend machine I 
was able to upgrade from 0.18 to 0.19 in just a few hours.  The 
database conversion went off without a hitch.  The biggest problem 
I ran into was the ever-changing library dependencies which 
required me to uninstall a lot of programs and then reinstall them 
again later.

My frontends are both broken right now, so my system is happily 
recording lots of shows that I can't watch.  The problem on my XBox 
is that the Myth upgrade destroyed X11 and I haven't found an 
Xorg-compatible device driver yet.  On my desktop machine I have a 
fully-functional X desktop that plays videos and music using every 
other program, but when I launch Myth it locks up about 3 seconds 
into the playback.  When it locks up the mouse still works and I 
can ping the box, but that's it.  Everything else is dead so I 
can't ssh in to see what's happening.