[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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