[mythtv-users] Upgrading from 0.21 to 0.23 = failure

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/13/2012 02:25 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> I've been running MythTV very happily for several years now, with
> version 0.21 on an old powerbook and a Hauppauge Nova TD usb stick and
> feeling no need to upgrade.  A few weeks ago, maintenance work on the
> building's arials left me unable to lock on some channels.  After
> finding no other solution, I thought I'd upgrade.  The most resent
> version for the Debian distribution running on the mac is 0.23.1, so I
> upgraded to that.  I know the latest is 0.24, but I thought this would
> be less likely to see awkward upgrade issues and that I could then go on
> to 0.24 if needed.
>
> After the upgrade, I couldn't watch any LiveTV at all.  So I ran
> mythtv-setup to rescan the channels - at which point the whole thing
> completely fails.  It doesn't matter if I run the scan from the Input
> connections screen or the Channel editor.  It doesn't matter if I use a
> channels.conf file (no problem generating that with the scan utility) or
> just have it do a full scan of the europe-west frequencies.  It doesn't
> matter if I run mythtv-setup as the mythtv user or as root.  What
> happens is that it finds 60 or 90 channels, asks me to assign unique
> numbers to them - *and then does absolutely nothing*, leaving me with an
> empty channel list.  What the hell is it doing with all those unique
> numbers I type in (I've tried choosing numbers myself and letting it go
> with suggested numbers), if it then just throws away all the channels?
>
> Is 0.23.1 just known to be broken?  Or does it require me to upgrade the
> kernel and the DVB drivers as well?  Should I just give up and go find
> the old 0.21 binaries?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034

At this point, you should probably do both the Capture Card and the 
Video Source portions.

Mike