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

[Johnny]

2009/3/28 Rodney D. Myers <rod_myers at fastmail.fm>:
> On Mar 10, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> I'm still having problems getting the mythtv account working.
>
> Everytime I boot or log back in, I get the "Select your preferred language"
> screen. I do as asked, but makes no difference.
>
> I have checked all permissions in the ~/mythtv directory, and they are owned
> by mythtv.
>
> Is there somewhere else that this may be a problem?

Have you tried using some other account? I think the mythtv user is
supposed to be a system account that is used by mythtv. You are
supposed to create a regular user and setup and start mythtv from that
account. At least that is how all my systems have been setup by the
various installers or guides that I have used over the years. I don't
remember what steps you took earlier. Have you made sure you can
connect to the database from the command line and made sure you have
the right stuff setup for database access.