[mythtv-users] 0.26 and Fedora 18 crash-n-burn?
Rich West
Rich.West at wesmo.com
Mon Apr 15 17:05:37 UTC 2013
On 04/13/2013 09:46 PM, Rich West wrote:
> On 4/13/2013 6:06 PM, Jerry wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com
>> <mailto:Rich.West at wesmo.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/13/2013 3:50 PM, HP-mini wrote:
>> > This pops up..
>> > http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2013-January/345762.html
>> > The advice was:
>> >>>> There was a significant fix for PVR-XXX cards that went into master
>> >>>> and 0.26-fixes and 0.25-fixes on or about 29 November last year
>> >>>> [2012]. Anyone with one of these cards should ensure they are
>> >>>> running reasonable current code.
>>
>> Thanks! Reading that post sounds exactly like what I am going through, so
>> there might be hope yet...
>>
>> All I can think of, though, is "Oh, great.." :(
>>
>> I'm running 0.26 via RPMfusion RPMS which are supposedly from April of
>> this
>> year. I looked at going back to atrpms, but I'm only seeing 0.25.3 built
>> back in October over there. Gahh.. the though of having to go back to
>> 0.25.3 after having upgraded *everything* in the house (that's four
>> clients)
>> and the database..
>>
>> ugh.. this.. is.. terrible... doesn't look like I have a lot of options..
>> downloading the 0.26.0 fixes branch and rolling my own RPM is probably the
>> better method but equally as painful.
>>
>>
>> My two cents:
>>
>> I'm fairly certain that the newer 0.26.0-7 RPMs on rpmfusion have
>> incorporated the PVR-XXX fix. I was having live TV issues until the most
>> recent RPM build. They have gone away. I have a PVR-500 for my analog
>> channels. I don't have any PVR-150s so I can't give you any more input
>> than that.
>>
>> Good luck!
>> Jerry
> Thanks, Jerry. Believe it or not, the 0.26.0-7 RPMS were the ones I was
> running. After dabbling with rolling my own (and dieing inside a little
> just at the thought), I gave it a shot at rolling back to the 0.26.0-4 RPMS
> from RPMfusion. Amazingly, it worked.. I'm getting recordings now and able
> to view LiveTV (don't normally use LiveTV at all, but it is a good test)..
> I'm not keeping my hopes up just yet, though.. I'm keeping a close eye on
> things before I celebrate.
Just to close the loop on this entirely..
I continued to experience weird problems with Fedora 18 and mythtv for
the backend, even with the older RPMS. I finally tossed my hands up in
the air and gave it one last shot: I pulled out an old drive and
installed Fedora 17 on it with the latest RPMfusion RPMS.
I've had the system running for about a day without it locking up or
crashing. *phew*
So.. long story short, after more pain than it was worth, I have joined
the camp of people who have been saying that F18 is too buggy.
-Rich
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