One of my frontend's started to act up this evening so I decided to try the upgrade from R8.02. I didn't realize the update was quite a change (Myth 27), As I got into it I decided to just wipe out my ssd and reload the frontend from scratch. Had a little trouble getting a good cd but once past that the install was straightforward. Once the machine was finished I noticed that my frontend would not come up. I manually kicked it off and got a message that schema on the backend was too old. So I knew I had to also do the MasterBE/FE. On the Master box I just did did it through
Code:
Pacman -Syu
and it updated Linhes/Myth/Xbmc/Google-Chrome without a hitch.The frontend was a little more work. I had to configure sound for my Logitech Z5 USB Speakers in Myth Setup, Alsamixer. and Xbmc. When I updated Xbmc I got an old error about duplicate file and just deleted it and reinstalled the package. Once inside XBMC I had work through and XBMC error 2 when trying to connect my shares. I installed samba and configured the workgroup name but this did not fix it. Finally on google it was suggested to manually map the share and this works
Thoughts
Do the upgrade via pacman and it a lot less work. So far I like the new theme for Linhes, Now my frontend boots faster than ever and shuts down clean no sql messages.
Thanks for the upgrade to 27 much appreciated