[mythtv-users] Forgot password; Choose door A, B or C?

[Leif Pihl]

Arrrrrrg!!!! 

I have a "MythTV box" that I have not used for some time, partly out of frustration with not making it work, and partly out of time constraints to GET it to work.  

Now, when I want to get back to fixing or overhauling it, I can't find the keyboard I was using. 
THAT keyboard likely (but not certainly) had a sticker on it with my password for my MythTV install, and maybe even for the Ubuntu OS as well.  

Can't find it. 

It also seems that my file where I normally store my passwords, does have an entry for MythBuntu, but I never filled in the slots. 


ARRRRRRG!!!!! 


I did open a terminal window and entered the command "lsb_release -a" and got the following response: 
   Distributor ID: Ubuntu 
   Description: Ubuntu  12.04.3 LTS 
   Release:  12.04 
   Codename:  precise 

My memory (failed as it is), tells me that I did an upgrade to MythTV/MythBuntu to 0.27. 

Obviously, I've not done the recent upgrade made possible by Ubuntu's release of 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr).

so... 


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||    ***  THE QUESTION: *** 
||   Am I better off to pick door: 
||   
||   (A) 	wipe the HD clean (no significant collection of videos), do a format and re-install from scratch, 
||   
||   (B) 	do a re-install of the OS without a format, and _MAYBE_ recover what videos there were  or 
||   
||   (C) 	do some other sort of a "hack" to get around my password(s) issue(s). 
||   
#============================================================


What follows is strictly BACKGROUND INFORMATION, 
just in case it should be deemed relevant... 


Keep in mind: 
(1) 	There are likely some drivers or setting that I would (have) like(d) to record/recover.  
(2) 	I am still very much a ROOKIE at Linux,    but then again, 
(3) 	One learns by doing.  


I had a real struggle finding and installing the correct drivers for both of my Tuner cards (see below) . 
I MAY or may NOT have notes on how to re-do that part again. 


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The Hardware: 
Intel DH77KC motherboard, 
   (using on-board video hardware) 
   Video output going to a 40" HDTV, using HDMI cables, 
Intel i3-3240 C5U (LGA115) CPU, 
a pair of Kingston memory sticks: “KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G”
   (I understand this pair equals 16GB of RAM together) 
and a refurbished 1TB HD from one of the big names.

Also included would be two different Hauppage tuner cards, 
   the first Tuner card is a HVR-2250 (connected to CATV with NO converter box) 
      (It includes a IR remote control I've never been able to make work. 
       The only identifier is a sticker on the back that says "RC6".) 
   the second Tuner card is a HVR-1800 (connected to an attic Antenna).  

NOTE:  Since the original configuration was done, I went to our Comcast office and traded in a unused NTSC converter box for one that is labeled:  
   Xfinity 
   Model: DC60Xu 
   Part: C138337810 
   FCC ID: NQ80DC60XU 
      It also has a Serial Number, Unit Identifier and a MAC Address associated with it. 
      This (small) box (and remote) are directly connected to the HDTV, and NOT to the MythTV box.  
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LP
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