Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) came out a short while ago … and because it contained new themes and the latest version of mythtv, I went and upgraded. These updates are tested by gazillions of people, any serious problems would be noticed before release .. right? right?

Well, looks like I did it again. Turned a working tv recorder into a “electronic beeping thing under the TV that doesn’t do much except show a pretty screensaver if you wait long enough”. After fixing up some stuff that the update broke (thanks for overwriting my config files. I’ll just use the version from the backup I made before the update if you don’t mind), I got almost everything up and running again. As of right now the only things broken are a) the theme not displaying any text when I’m in LiveTV or a video (yeah, try to get out of there without any menus) and b) my remote control is also not working.

At first I thought that some sonfig was just b0rked with the lirc config, but after doing a “top” and seeing that lirc_dev was consuming a modest 90% of my CPU, I decided that it was googles turn to find out what was wrong with Ubuntu 10.04. And sure enough, it seems this wa a know problem that made it into release (hooray). Anyone stumbling across this post via goole: go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/550369, there are fixes for the problem towards the end of the page. Since it looks like they will make it into the 10.04 updates you can also just wait for a few days/weeks and they will pop up as a update automatically. Anyone wanting to fix the problem now: the short version ist: go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed to set up proposed updates for lucid, and install “lirc” and “lirc-modules-source” from the proposed repository.

As for the broken themes? I’m still working on that, have a few updates and poking around to go before the system is back to the running condition it was before.

*Update*
For some strange reason, I had to set the IRQ of the serial port to 4 any specify it in the /etc/modconf.d directory (was getting busy errors with IRQ 3)

The broken themes were “only” the OSD using bold font. After changing it back to the normal version in the OSD settings everything worked fine.