[mythtv-users] no live tv

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please help!
>
> I've had an nice running myth setup on Ubuntu since 8.04 was ready.  Today,
> I did an update that included a new kernel version, and now I have problems
> on two of my systems.  My main backend seems to run fine, but when I connect
> to it from any of my frontends, I have no live TV, and it shows that I have
> no recordings.  I've checked my recordings directory (which is on a couple
> of harddrives, LVM style, and all they do is store recordings) and
> everything appears as it should.  Otherwise, myth seems to work, I can
> connect to my videos library, and everything seems fine.  So does this mean
> my database is messed up? I've never experienced a problem like this
> before.  Also, during the same update on my main desktop machine, also
> running Ubuntu 8.04 (which also occasionally serves as a frontend on one of
> the two displays) I seem to have a different problem.  On that machine, my
> video and sound seem not to work.  I have to run the video with the VESA
> driver to load X, and I've yet to make audio work at all.
>
> Has anyone running ubuntu/mythbuntu experienced similar problems in the last
> day or so?  I download updates daily, and usually install them daily, and
> that has served me well for the last year or so (of course, the 8 of the
> last 12 months were running on 7.04 and 7.10).  Is this just a new lesson
> for why I should be constantly paranoid and terrified about updates?
>
> I'd like to simply undo the last update, but I'm afraid I don't know how to
> do that.  Any advice would be appreciated, and let me know if I can provide
> any further details.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh

Repeat after me: "I shall not fiddle with my working MythTV system!"

No, not struck this, but I don't update my 8.04 mythbuntu box. I'll
let you know if my desktop is screwed after i get home and reboot it
following the latest update.