Bruce,
I am curious as to why you would ask someone to try building a mythbox on Mint (PCLinuxOS and/or Mandriva (Magiea??) when your sig shows you are using Mint. Is this just trying to find out if someone else had a hard time/easy time too?

FWIW, I've been using successive Fedora installs since about Fedora Core 4 for my box. Presently on Fedora 14 using a myth git master pull from about 2 months ago. I'm going to stay on F14 until the changeover to systemd and the lirc kernel changes all percolate through to the 3.1 kernel before I upgrade, although I used to do that quite rapidly.

And of course, after all of the digital switchover has settled out!.