[mythtv-users] Problems with Mythbuntu 14.04

[Thomas Mashos]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
>
> On 07/24/2014 06:51 AM, Brian Steele wrote:
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> Hi Mike,
>
> I addressed the exit and shutdown issue in the first response to your
> message.  I'm pasting here for convenience:
> You need to add your user to the sudoers file and give them permission to
> run the shutdown command you have defined in the mythtv settings without
> being prompted for password.  Usually it looks something like this:
>
> user_name ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/poweroff, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/shutdown
>
> See also
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/168879/shutdown-from-terminal-without-entering-password
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 07/15/2014 09:44 PM, Mike Carron wrote:
>>>
>>> ***
>>> Please accept my sincere apologies for starting a version war, that was
>>> not my intent. I was merely hoping for some assistance in a couple of
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> mike
>>>
>> ***
>> Evidently the version war took the thread completely off track. Still
>> unsolved is the issue of Exit and Shutdown which worked properly in
>> Mythbuntu 12.04/0.27.3 and quit working in Mythbuntu 14.04/0.27.3. Has that
>> been dealt with somewhere I haven't seen? Am I the only one to encounter the
>> problem?
>>
>>
>> mike
>
> ***
> Your solution provided a workaround so maybe I didn't word the question
> quite properly: Why is it necessary to apply a workaround for 14.04 when
> none was needed for 12.04? Was that intentional?
>
> mike
>
>
> _______________________________________________

Workaround? That just seems like proper configuration to me.


Thanks,

Thomas Mashos