[mythtv-users] ATRPMs upgrade issue.

Roy Lofthouse lofty69 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 19:40:16 UTC 2008


On 25/02/2008, Shawn Flynn <sflynn1 at rogers.com> wrote:
> >Roy Lofthouse schreef op 25-2-2008 14:03:
>  >> On 25/02/2008, Jos Hoekstra <joshoekstra at gmx.net> wrote:
>  >>> Roy Lofthouse schreef op 25-2-2008 12:31:
>  >>>
>  >>>> On 25/02/2008, Jos Hoekstra <joshoekstra at gmx.net> wrote:
>  >>>  >> Roy Lofthouse schreef op 25-2-2008 11:51:
>  >>>  >>
>  >>>  >>> Just updated my backend to the latest ATRPM's version and now I
>  can't
>  >>>  >>  > start the backend.
>  >>>  >>  >
>  >>>  >>  > I keep getting the following error:
>  >>>  >>  >
>  >>>  >>  > /Mythtv/Recordings/nfslockfile.lock: Permission denied
>  >>>  >>  >
>  >>>  >>  > I've not changed any permissions and I've had to set the
>  permissions
>  >>>  >>  > on the recordings directory so the mythtv group has write access.
>  >>>  >>  >
>  >>>  >>  > Has the user changed in the startup scripts at some point?
>  >>>  >>
>  >>>  >>
>  >>>  >> Same here, since the version 0.20.2-174.fc8 I upgraded to this
>  morning.
>  >>>  >>  Reverting tot 173 seems to have solved it.
>  >>>  >>
>  >>>  >>  Regards,
>  >>>  >>
>  >>>  >>
>  >>>  >>  Jos Hoekstra
>  >>>  >
>
> >>>  > Can you check your /etc/init.d/mythbackend file for the following
>  >>>  > lines (on .173):
>  >>>  >
>  >>>  >   # Does not work on Red Hat, do to to missing audio/video groups.
>  >>>  >   daemon --user mythtv $binary $OPTIONS
>  >>>  >   daemon $binary $OPTIONS
>  >>>  >
>  >>>  > what is your --user set to?
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> At .173 it is:
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>    # Does not work on Red Hat, do to to missing audio/video groups.
>  >>>
>  >>> #  cd $MYTHTV_HOME && daemon --user mythtv $binary $OPTIONS
>  >>>    cd $MYTHTV_HOME && daemon $binary $OPTIONS
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>  So the user isn't set there...
>  >>>  at .174 it is?
>  >>>
>  >>>
>
> >> it may default to root if it's not set?  Would explain the issue.
>  >
>  >Affirmative.
>
>
> Commenting out the ' cd $MYTHTV_HOME && daemon --user mythtv $binary
>  $OPTIONS ' line worked for my master backend machine, but the slave backends
>  still could not connect to the master. My machines used to grab their mysql
>  settings from /.mythtv/mysql.txt but they now appear to be defaulting to
>  /var/lib/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt
>
>  I had to edit the /etc/sysconfig/mythbackend file on each of my backends to
>  point $MYTHTV_HOME to the correct location for the mysql.txt file.
>
>
>  Shawn Flynn
>
>
>
>
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Just done another update and all seems well again :) (Thanks Axel)


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