I did a pacman -Syu tonight just for fun and, for the first time in a long while, there are updated packages, which include the next version of myth, 0.24. So I panicked and didn't go ahead with the upgrade.

Is it OK to just go ahead and upgrade using pacman -Syu, or should we be waiting for LH7?

I would say wait. I setup a frontend last night, which grabbed mythtv .24, which was not compatible with my mythtv .23 backend.

I posted the following message in the Installation forum:

http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22014

Yes, it is ok. You should note, configuration under the Service Menu will be broken.

sudo mythbackup
sudo sv stop mythbackend
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo sv start mythbackend (give it a minute to upgrade the schema)
start the frontend and answer yes to upgrading the schema

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Thanks for the heads up and what to expect. I assume you'll let everyone know when the Service Menu fixes will be available.

Thanks for all your work and support...

Should we fiddle with 6 (on the way out), or prepare for 7 (on the way in) ?

i did the exact same thing i paniced and said no. i just got this box working i wasnt about to break it already.

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I just (accidentally) upgraded to 0.24 and while it is working I would recommend waiting. Most of the themes just aren't quite there yet and you can no longer select a separate OSD theme so you are stuck with whatever the theme developer included unless you want to edit xml. Also you no longer have any control over font sizes in the menus and several of the themes do not have their font sizes right. Again the only fix I've found is editing the xml.

The theme engine does appear to be improved and I'm sure the end result will be positive but right now the theme developers (again) appear to be on the step upward slope of the learning curve.

my $0.02

Martian

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Vizio 37" LCD HDTV (1080p)

Wrong thread:

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Vizio 37" LCD HDTV (1080p)

Since I ran the upgrade, I noticed the issue of mythweb broke via the php.ini file. I also noticed an issue today during a testing install that when you go to setup --> linhes setup to adjust the remotes for my blaster, it was asking for libmyth-0.23.1.so in the mythfront log. I tried copying it from another system I have setup not upgraded yet and didnt fix it. It may be something that I goofed but I'm not upgrading my back box until I figure out all the details whats going on.

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MBE/FE: Source 24.2, AMD 64 X2 4400+ 2gb 1.5 Tb Dual PVR 500 + Motorola STB
MBE: R6, AMD 64 X2 4400+ 3gb 2 Tb HDPVR + Motorola STB
FE: Custom AMD FX 55 2 Gb
Dev: Custom 0.25 from source MBE/FE

Does your php.ini have these lines?

If not, add them, restart lighttpd and try again.


If that's not it, articulating what php errors you're seeing would be helpful.

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My Hardware Profile

Yep I seen Cecil say tonight that the Service menu would be broken which now is understandable. Its looking for a lib under myth 0.23. I figured out the php.ini by doing a sdiff against the original. I was just mentioning it on the forum in case someone else seen the issue.

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MBE: R6, AMD 64 X2 4400+ 3gb 2 Tb HDPVR + Motorola STB
FE: Custom AMD FX 55 2 Gb
Dev: Custom 0.25 from source MBE/FE

Looks like another upgrade got pushed out tonight and I've confirmed that the service menu is working again.

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MBE/FE: Source 24.2, AMD 64 X2 4400+ 2gb 1.5 Tb Dual PVR 500 + Motorola STB
MBE: R6, AMD 64 X2 4400+ 3gb 2 Tb HDPVR + Motorola STB
FE: Custom AMD FX 55 2 Gb
Dev: Custom 0.25 from source MBE/FE

Any more feedback from those that have tried the update? Should I still expect mythweb to be busted? Anything else to report?

Considering updating tomorrow as i'm dying to get the .24 update and audio over HDMI working.

I upgraded yesterday and had two problems. The main one was, as reported before, the php.ini extension dir was set incorrectly. The other problem was that LIRC got set up with a double entry for my remote. LIRC had two remotes listed it had the configfile and the vi backup configfile~, so any keypress was duplicated.

Other those two things everything went smoothly

As a followup, I hit the same mythweb problems. I was missing
extension=session.so

and my extension_dir was set to "usr/lib/php/20060613". Changed that to "/usr/lib/php/modules".

Everything i've tried so far seems to be ok.