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

[Mike Perkins]

On 25/04/2023 12:24, James Abernathy wrote:
> 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
>
Alternatively you could just create the mythtv user yourself (with sensible arguments) before 
running that step.

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Mike Perkins