9 June 2008 - 1:11Yay Unexpected Results

So the big moment has finally arrived. The latest version of MythTV has been released.

I’ve been secretly working late into the night for the past couple of days attempting to update my system for this release. But I kept running into problems.

First apt-get would fail to dist-upgrade my system, as would yum. Each would fail on different dependancies. For most of it I would have to use yum to fix the apt-get dependancies, and vice versa.

After most of that non-sense was outta the way. I did a apt-get update, and everything seemed to be going ok. That’s when I noticed something that sent shivers down my spine. MythTV was being updated! “Oh no” I thought, I’m not ready. But it was too late.

I quickly shut down the backend, and the frontend hoping to recover this mess somehow. When the update was finished, I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best. I fired up the backend and it loaded ok. The proper next step would of been to run mythtv-setup, but my system auto loaded the frontend. Hey it loaded!

Best part is, everything works. All my recordings are there, the frontend looks good, my video’s play no problem.

All in all, things seemed to work out fine in the end.

[update] I lied, the frontend didn’t start right up. In fact as usually X wouldn’t start. I’ve been down this road so many times I knew right what to do. I grabbed the latest nvidia driver and reinstalled. Presto, the frontend loaded. This happens everytime I update my mythbox. Its happened so much I forgot I had to do it lastnight.