[mythtv-users] Fedora 16 for mythTV
Alec Leamas
leamas.alec at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 11:52:48 UTC 2011
Seems that a lot of folks have upgraded without much trouble to F16, I
wish I could say the same ...:)
An incomplete list what I ran into during the upgrade F14-F16. I usually
lag one major version, this should be the time for F15 for me. However,
new hardware (DVB/T2) made me take this step now.
An incomplete list o problems I ran into, hopefully helpful to someone (?):
Mythtv on Fedora 16
Preupgrade failed hard due to /var on separate partition:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748119
Bluetooth problems on my hardware:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733847
Ethernet problems on my hardware
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719449
Before update, mythbackend refused to start. Related to that it is now
by default run as mythtv, not root. Seems OK after update(?)
After update: segmentation faults related to nvidia driver:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737223
On my combined frontend/backend/db server, frontend is started before
mysqld is initiated -> DB connection errors. Had to add code in
frontend startup script to wait for DB.
Similarly, when irexec is invoked in autostart it fails because lirc has
yet not created the /var/run/lirc/lircd socket. Code needed to wait for
socket...
Earlier, I could set up the myth user so that it was automatically logged
in when it was logged out (or killed), creating a soft, fast reset without
complete reboot. This seems not possible any more, automatic login after
boot is OK but not after logout (?). This is not really a bug, the pre-F16
behaviour was undocumented (?)
Thinking about it, the whole idea of something like GDM is more trouble than
its worth. It should be possible to define a runlevel (systemd target) which
just starts the mythtv user and the services it needs (irexec, licmd etc).
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