Installing MythTV 0.25 on Fedora 17

Post date: May 31, 2012 1:33:11 AM

I have been running MythTV since 2005 and this is the latest upgrade I have done. I have done this a few times and the 1st time (back in 2005) I built everything fron source, so I have solved many issues in my time. UPDATED to add comments on intel and nvidia video issues. See bottom of this post That said, here is what I went through.

Original System:

Fedora 14
MythTV v0.24
Asus Motherboard P7H55-M Pro with integrated Intel H55 Chipset for HDMI,DVI and VGA
Intel i5 6 series (Clarkdale) 680 @ 3.6 GHz (the series 6 enables the onboard Video)
2x2TB Seagate drives
This system holds all my photos, music files and video files

New System:

Fresh install (no upgrade)
to F17 and MythTV 0.25 fixes.
Same computer as before
Restore ALL previous recordings back into MythTV
photos, music files and video files

Detailed Steps:

Full Backup of existing system including ensuring all reqious videos and recordings are backed up
double check all my photos are safe
Specific backup of mySQL database using MySQL Workbench and dump commands

get iso and double check the download checksum
1. Think about how to partition the drives
  - My partition layout
    - 1st of my 2TB drives (/dev/sda)
      - /boot - 500MB
      - / - 14000MB
      - /media1 - all the rest
    - 2nd of my 2TB drives (/dev/sdb)
      - /media2 - all the rest
2. Install F17
  - select the online updates repo
  - manually select the software packages to install
    - make sure to select mysqld plus many others
    - NO mythtv yet - do it later
  - finish install
- reboot
1. Finish install
  - setup your userID etc
  - Check that all seems to be working
2. Disable selinux
  - edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux
  - change line to SELINUX=disabled
- reboot
1. adjust/turn off firewall
- systemctl stop firewalld.service
- systemctl disable firewalld.service
  - OR If wanted you could just open vnc, smb, ssh and http ports as desired
1. Enable desktop sharing
- vino-preferences
1. Set gnome gdm to auto-login
  - change /etc/gdm/custom.conf to the following
2. Re-mount my NAS backup network shares (setup the /ets/fstab)
  - /mnt/droboShare/media
  - /mnt/droboShare/media2
  - and all my other shares
3. Copy all my user files back
4. Setup mysql database
- systemctl status mysqld.service
  - mysqld.service - MySQL database server
  - Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service; disabled)
  - Active: inactive (dead)
  - CGroup: name=systemd:/system/mysqld.service
- Start mysqld
- [tgutwin@mythtv ~]$ sudo systemctl start mysqld.service
  - [sudo] password for tgutwin:
- [tgutwin@mythtv ~]$ sudo systemctl enable mysqld.service
  - set mySQL secure settings
  - sudo mysql_secure_installation
  - mysql -u root -p
  - Enter password:
  - Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
  - Your MySQL connection id is 11
  - Server version: 5.5.23 MySQL Community Server (GPL)
  - Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  - Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
  - Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
  - mysql> grant all on *.* to root@'10.0.0.253';
  - Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
  - mysql> grant all on *.* to root@'warp4.webarts.bc.ca' identified by 'passwordHere';
  - Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
  - mysql> FLUSH privileges; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
  - mysql> quit
  - Bye
1. Reloaded the db dump from previous mythtv db (mythconverg)
2. add JDK into opt and setup paths and classpath
3. install stunnel and copy back /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
4. Add rpmfusion repo
  - restore/Copy /etc/lirc files
    - cp ~/.lircrc
    - re-create ln -s ~/.lircrc /root/.lircrc yum install lirc
    - install mythtv
    - and backend and all the plugins
    - from rpmfusion
    - do the setup for the cards
    - **** make sure the channel change script is executable by everyone that needs to exec it
    - chmod guo+x /home/share/bin/starChanChange.sh
    - BTW here is my script
    - sudo rmmod lirc_dev
    - sudo rmmod lirc_serial
    - sudo rmmod ir_lirc_codec
    - sudo /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
    - sudo modprobe lirc_dev
    - sudo modprobe lirc_serial
    - sudo modprobe ir_lirc_codec
    - sudo systemctl start lirc.service
    - sudo systemctl enable lirc.service
5. restore backed up udev rules for video devices into /etc/udev/rules.d/*
6. Install mythtv
  - Mythweb issue on F17 (PHP 5.4) See http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10504

Installing MythTV 0.25 on Fedora 17

Original System:

New System:

Detailed Steps:

Other Problems

Intel video issues