[mythtv-users] About updating from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04

[Ted L]

On Friday, May 8, 2026 at 05:06:30 PM EDT, Will Dormann <wdormann at gmail.com> wrote:

>> The correct fix for mythbackend is to wait until the network is
>> actually up. What I do is to ping my Ethernet switch and only start
>> network services after I get a ping reply. Any device that is
>> pingable will do, but as you are using HDHomerun devices, pinging one
>> of them is a good choice. Also, with HDHomeruns you can detect them
>> using an hdhomerun_config command and check the results of that. That
>> works well as an ExecStartPre command - just wait until they are
>> detected by the correct hdhomerun_config command which will then
>> return and allow mythbackend to be started. There are examples of
>> these and other ways of doing it in this mailing list's archives.

>Thanks. I'll take a look to see if I can dig it up.

The wiki has links for these:
https://wiki.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Ubuntu#Install_Software

Mythbuntu Control Panel users can do this using the option to enable networking during setup:
https://wiki.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythbuntu_Control_Panel#Performing_System_Setup_Tasks