[mythtv-users] Theme question
Mike Carron
jmcarron at starstream.net
Sun Dec 21 18:00:13 UTC 2014
That explains everything, thanks.
mike
On 12/21/2014 09:41 AM, John P Poet wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net
> <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net>> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/20/2014 10:53 PM, John P Poet wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Mike Carron
> <jmcarron at starstream.net <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net>
> <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net
> <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net>>> wrote:
>
> Is there a reason why I should expect that installing the same
> version of Mythbuntu (12.04 and promptly upgrading Myth to
> 27.4)
> from the same USB stick onto two different machines would
> product
> a different selection of available themes in Setup ->
> Theme Chooser?
>
> On one machine, a Zotac ID36, I get what is apparently the
> full
> catalog of themes, including MythCenter, MythCenter-Wide,
> Arclight, Mythbuntu, Terra and several others. On the other
> machine, a Zotac AD03, I get Mythbuntu, MythCenter,
> Mythcenter-Wide and Terra, none of the others. I can
> re-install on
> the AD03 and get exactly the same result so it shouldn't be a
> matter of a botched install. Is there something in the install
> process that prevents certain themes from being installed on
> certain hardware?
>
> Incidentally, prior to upgrading the MythTV from 0.25 to
> 0.27 all
> front ends presented the same themes in Theme Chooser.
>
>
> It is probably a permission issue. Make sure that the
> ~/.mythtv directory (and all of it sub-directories) are
> writable by whatever user(s) is running mythbackend and
> mythfrontend.
>
> John
>
> ***
> Different themes can have different permissions?
>
>
> MythCenter, Mythcenter-Wide and Terra ship with myth by default.
> Since you are running Mythbuntu, I am guessing that is being included
> by default as well. All other themes are downloaded "on demand". I
> am guessing that myth does not have permission to download the
> requested themes to the directories it wants to download them to.
>
> Assuming your myth user is 'mythtv', try something like:
>
> $ sudo chown -R mythtv:mythtv /home/mythtv
> $ sudo chmod -R ug+rwX /home/mythtv
>
> and see if that fixes the problem.
>
> John
>
>
>
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