[mythtv-users] Anyone using/upgraded to Fed17 for Myth yet?

[Eric Smith]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Mark <markhsa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12-05-31 12:31 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Richard Shaw<hobbes1069 at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Mark<markhsa at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Experiences or feedback?
>>>
>>> You may want to ask on the RPM Fusion mailing list. I do maintain
>>> packages for F17 and rawhide so chances are someone has installed
>>> them...
>>>
>>> Richard
>>
>> I did a complete rebuild this weekend moving my database to a ssd and
>> upgrading from f14 to f17.  For the most part the upgrade was smooth
>> and myth seems to be running well.  (The upgrade to ssd made a huge
>> difference for me).  I have two outstanding issues only the 2nd is
>> probably truly a f17 issue.
>>
>> 1. Somehow during my initial setup I created a user mythttv with an
>> extra t typoed.  I thought no big deal, I'll just rename the user when
>> I'm done.  Nope, when I try to rename it, it tells me the user mythtv
>> already exists.  (Eh?)  This caused some issues I had to work through
>> with making sure permissions were correct for the user mythttv.  (Not
>> necessarily a f17 issue, but with the upgrade, mythbackend is now
>> being executed by mythtv (the user that shouldn't exist?) and not by
>> root as it has been for me for many years.  While I'm sure this is a
>> "good thing" it did add to my permissions issues I had to work though.
>>
>> 2. f17 comes with php 5.4 which doesn't seem to play well with
>> mythweb.  I found one post referencing the issue but haven't been able
>> to come up with a fix yet short of downgrading to php 5.3.
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>
> Interesting.  What difference did the SSD make?  I was thinking of
> rebuilding and using an SSD as well.
> I would be interested to know your experience on that.
> What did you use?  A 128 gig SSD?  MySql on the SSD?  Storage elsewhere?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark

I went with a 120G sandisk extreme with os and mysql both on the ssd.
There have been several threads on implementing SSD that pushed me to
decide to go that direction when I was ready for my next upgrade.  You
may want to read through
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/508621 or
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/500301.  Like most
of the experiences reported in those threads I'm finding both
mythfrontend and mythweb to be much quicker.  I have a reasonably
large database (~1000 channels across 3 lineups - hdhomerun, prime,
hdpvr, ~4tb of media) and performance with things like loading the
program guide and the list of recordings is significantly improved.  I
couldn't be happier.  SSDs seem to be showing up every day on the deal
websites right now... I can't think of a good reason not to be using
one.

To folllow up on the mythweb issue -- there is a ticket open for it
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10504.  And a simple patch that got
me up and running with no troubles so far.