[mythtv-users] Problem controlling external tuners in new upgrade using mythtv V0.25.3

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 28 May 2014 13:27:45 +0930, you wrote:

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>>> I know that it will get more stable with the first point release (14.04.01?) so if you were already happily on Mythbuntu 12.04 + fixes/0.27 there would be nothing to gain going now, but there are a lot of improvements since 10.04 + fixes/0.23.
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>>> I assume the next Mythbuntu release is still 4 months or so away?
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>> The upgrade path for Ubuntu/Mythbuntu between LTS releases normally
>> requires the .1 release now.  So you can upgrade 13.10 to 14.04 LTS
>> now, but the upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS is supposed to wait
>> for 14.04.1.  Upgrade directly from prior LTS releases is also
>> supposed to wait for the .1 release.  My 12.04 systems are not
>> offering the 14.04 upgrade option yet.  My 13.10 on my laptop is.
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>But technically is this an upgrade? I assume that the recommended path from 10.04 + fixes/0.23 (particularly given that Craig has the spare disk for the new o/s) would be clean install  on the new disk. I would then probably mount the old disk in a USB enclosure and move across the database for upgrade and any scripts that I wanted to try and keep etc.
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>Although thinking about it I guess (in theory) there is no reason not to clone the old disk to new disk and then do successive in place upgrades with fallback to old disk if problems arise. I think I would still personally go with the clean install option though.
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>I need to go back and re-read the OP.

Given the large number of changes between the OP's running system and
a 14.04 + 0.27 system, if I were updating, I would go for a clean
Mythbuntu 14.04 install on a new disk or new partition and then
migrate the database and other things from the old partition.  I have
done that before and it works pretty well, although I have the
advantage that I originally partitioned my disks so that I have three
boot partitions just so that I could do this.  That means that I can
keep the old boot partitions online where I can copy things from them
as needed, and also search them when I can not remember where
something was.