[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4787: No error shown if storage groups are not writeable
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Mar 3 18:32:47 UTC 2008
On 02/26/2008 10:58 AM, MythTV wrote:
> #4787: No error shown if storage groups are not writeable
>
> It was not very obvious what was going wrong until I found the logs. But
> for some reason the security setting were not set correctly for my only
> storage group. thus when I went to start livetv it just exited out
> straight away yet scheduled recording were ok.
>
> As soon as I fixed the permissions it was ok.
>
> Should there be a check in mythtv setup to ensure that the storage groups
> have write access?
This already exists.
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/libs/libmyth/storagegroup.cpp#L277
> Or when you try to start livetv and it has a problem
> with permissions to the hard drive it throws up and error instead of jsut
> exiting with out any reason.
>
> Looks pretty good so far, very happy.
Sounds like you may have run mythtv-setup as a user with write
permission to the directory (i.e. root), but you're running mythbackend
as a user without write permission (i.e. mythtv).
Mike
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