[mythtv-users] To me this is a new introduced bug, or did something change

[James Abernathy]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023, 7:32 PM Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Monday 24 April 2023 04:27:10 PM (-05:00), James Abernathy wrote:
>
>  > I tried to install mythtv on a Ubuntu 23.04 RPI4. Everything went as
>  > expected until I tried to set up XMLTV according to the wiki. Lots of
>  > problems.
>  >
>  > Turns out the new Ubuntu PPA for v33 on Ubuntu for 23.04 install creates
>  > the user "mythtv" with a home of /nonexistent as the directory. This
> messes
>  > everything up. All the current instructions for setting up a backend
> with
>  > XMLTV have to be changed or do as I did and fix the user mythtv back to
>  > /home/mythtv as normal per the documentation.
>  >
>  > What am I missing?
>  >
>  > Jim A
>  >
>
> Not a change in the v33 PPA. But it is now.
> In 23.04, the adduser command creates system users with /nonexistant
> unless
> the --home <dir>
> option is specified (and it wasn't in mythtv-common.postinst).
>
> Just pushed the fix for v33 and master.
> --
> Bill
>

Thanks. I'll retest tomorrow. I'm trying to update my RPI4 instructions for
Ubuntu 23.04 and MythTV v33. Should be almost identical to Ubuntu 22.10.

Jim A
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