[mythtv-users] Ubuntu restore & unable to get past "select your preferred language" screen

[Rodney D. Myers]

On Mar 10, 2009, at 1:38 PM, jarpublic at gmail.com wrote:

>> What are the permissions supposed to be? Mine are;
>>
>> cd .mythtv/
>> sh-3.1$ ls -la
>> total 80
>> drwxr-xr-x  9 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-07-14 09:35 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 34 mythtv mythtv  4096 2009-03-09 18:49 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-07-11 23:20 channels
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 mythtv mythtv    11 2009-02-16 20:40 lircrc -> /etc/ 
>> lircrc
>> -rw-r--r--  1 mythtv mythtv   981 2009-03-09 16:55 mysql.txt
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-07-14 09:35 MythFlix
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-07-12 21:09 MythNews
>> drwxr-xr-x  4 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-07-12 18:03 MythPhone
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-08-17 14:44 MythWeather
>> -rw-r--r--  1 mythtv mythtv 28786 2006-07-12 21:10  
>> MythWeatherradar.jpg
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 12288 2009-03-09 18:54 osdcache
>> drwxr-xr-x  3 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-11-21 15:16 themecache
>
> Mine are all owned by me rather than mythtv. Are you logging in as
> user 'mythtv'? Unless you are logging in as user 'mythtv' then you
> don't have write permissions on that directory, which could be your
> problem. Normally you should log in as a normal user (rather than
> mythtv) that is a member of the mythtv group. Then everything in
> ~/.mythtv should be owned by that user.

My bad, in an earlier message I did mention this was the mythtv user  
account