Monthly Archives: April 2014

mythtv upgrade April 2014

Current issues:

grub problem, require hot reboot to make grub load?
channels not quite right.

Current setup:
mythtv .2
mythbackend doesn’t autostart at present
1Tb drive has 200Gb / and 800 Gb /var partitions
(recordings are at /var/lib/mythtv/recordings)

<code>
markp@mythserver:~$ apt-cache policy mythtv
mythtv:
  Installed: 2:0.26.1+fixes.20131223.e41b710-0ubuntu0mythbuntu1
  Candidate: 2:0.26.1+fixes.20140322.1a4cebf-0ubuntu0mythbuntu1
  Version table:
     2:0.26.1+fixes.20140322.1a4cebf-0ubuntu0mythbuntu1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.26/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2:0.26.1+fixes.20131223.e41b710-0ubuntu0mythbuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:0.25.3+fixes.20130813.b5adf03-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.25/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
     2:0.25.0+fixes.20120410.1f5962a-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/multiverse amd64 Packages
</code>

Aim:

replicate current .26 install so that it starts properly and has recording on separate drive.

recordings