[mythtv-users] Ubuntu 20.04 daily builds

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Fri Dec 13 00:27:34 UTC 2019


On 06/12/2019 13:28, Tom Bishop wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 5:31 AM Stephen Worthington
> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz <mailto:stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 19:43:22 -0600, you wrote:
> 
>     >I need to migrate from 14.04, upgraded the my virtual machine server to
>     >Centos 8 and having issues with stability with my old 14.04 running .27
>     >fixes. Hard to track down and figure it just needs to get upgraded
>     so was
>     >thinking about going to a 20.04 daily build and using the ppa for
>     .30, but
>     >was wondering if anyone has done that yet and if any major issues.
>     >
>     >I'm not in a big rush and could do 18.04 but would love to skip the
>     upgrade
>     >if possible.
>     >
>     >Thanks! :)
> 
>     If you are planning to actually upgrade the 14.04 system, rather than
>     do a new install of 20.04 daily, then you have to do the upgrades in
>     between anyway: 14.04 => 16.04 => 18.04 => 20.04.  And the LTS upgrade
>     code is not normally available until the .1 version anyway, so 18.04
>     => 20.04.1 and 20.04.1 will not be available for several weeks after
>     the release of 20.04.  So realistically, you can only upgrade to 18.04
>     at present.  If you really, really want to use 20.04 at this stage
>     when it is guaranteed to still be very buggy, your only options are a
>     new install, or do the LTS upgrades to 18.04 and then upgrade 18.04 =>
>     18.10 => 19.04 => 19.10 => 20.04.
> 
>     And you need to be wary of kernels as recent as the ones that are in
>     20.04 daily as they may well break your tuners - there have had to be
>     patches for broken tuner support in some recent kernels (in 19.10 I
>     think - I did not follow what happened except in passing).
> 
>     What video card are you using?  If you have an ancient (now
>     unsupported) Nvidia chipset, then you can not upgrade beyond 16.04
>     anyway as the older kernels in 16.04 are the last ones that the old
>     Nvidia drivers work with.  Even in 16.04 you would have had to stop
>     upgrading the kernel months ago to keep the necessary Nvidia support,
>     or manually patch and install the old Nvidia drivers.
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> 
> All good points I should have been more clear, I would not go with an in
> place upgrade but install 20.04 daily fresh and import database. This is
> also just for a backend, no frontend is needed, I use Kodi for all my
> frontends.
> 
> I started poking around 18.04 last night and not able to get the
> database to connect so I have lots more playing to do to make sure I
> understand the steps. At least with playing with it virtually I can
> snapshot and go back and try again until I can get it correct. I will
> probably just role with 18.04 but I bet I could get it working in one of
> the dailies since I could do a minimal install without a gui etc, but
> will probably just use the easy button which should be 18.04.
> 
> Thanks :)
> 

You could always start on 19.10, and upgrade to 20.04 once it's out, and
then IIRC, it'll default back to sticking to LTS releases (if not it's a
simple change)

Regards
Stuart



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