[mythtv-users] Problems with Mythbuntu 14.04

[Mike Perkins]

On 24/07/14 16:06, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>>>>
>>> ***
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> ***
>> 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.
>
If the above sudo incantation is intended as proper configuration, perhaps this 
should have been applied automatically as part of the installation process?

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Mike Perkins