I decided to do some server maintenance today, so I upgraded my Mythbuntu client to version 11.04. I upgraded the backend server as well, but that went smoothly, so I guess that isn’t of public interest.
The client is based on the Asus AT3ION-I Deluxe motherboard. Having upgraded the client, the boot time went from seconds to minutes, and the remote stopped working. After some dmegs, lsmod and Google action it turned out that this was due to the mceusb driver. It loads when the remote is detected, it then crashes, makes the hid-philips-asus.sh script lock the boot process for about three minutes and prevents the correct driver from being loaded. The fix, to blacklist mceusb, is described in the ArchLinux wiki.