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

[James Abernathy]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 7:44 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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
>

Not sure if I waited long enough? but at 7:20AM EDT this morning I tried
again on a fresh install of Ubuntu23.04 on my Raspberry Pi 4 and got the
same /nonexistent/.mythtv directory stuff.  When should I try??

Jim A
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