[mythtv-users] Mythweb Channel icons not showing up by frontend does.

[Mitch Gore]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 17/09/2009, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Interesting.  I am running mythbuntu weekly builds.  here is what i saw:
> >
> >
> > /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data/tv_icons ->
> > /var/cache/mythweb/image_cache
> >
> > that image_cache folder is what i cleared but no effect.  I remove the
> sym
> > link and then pointed it to my channels folder:
> > sudo ln -s /home/mitchell/.mythtv/channels/ tv_icons
> >
> >
> > changed perm of my icons:
> > sudo chown www-data:www-data
> > /home/mitchell/.mythtv/channels
> > sudo chown www-data:www-data
> > /home/mitchell/.mythtv/channels/*
> >
> > And Viola.  I have all my icons.  So what ever is filling image_cache is
> not
> > liking some images.  Anyone know what ubuntu is doing?
>
> A patch of mine (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6721) updating the
> MythWeb docs was committed to trunk (r21089) that may explain one
> reason why this situation might occur. However, if MythWeb is only
> selectively missing icons - which all have the same ownership and
> access permissions - this is not the case here.
>
> Many new distros create home directories with permissions 0700 - this
> means that if MythWeb is running as a different user/group, it will
> not have permission to the mythbackend/mythtv-setup user's icons
> directory in ~/.mythtv/channels and you will not see any icons in
> MythWeb.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
> --
> Nick Morrott
>
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I was seeing most icons but not all.  They all had identical ownership and
permissions.
-- 
Mitchell
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