[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase failing after OS upgrade

Bill Meek keemllib at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 17:44:48 UTC 2023


On 1/6/23 11:34, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 12:30 PM Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com <mailto:keemllib at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 1/6/23 11:20, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>      >
>      > here are the permissions from the 20.04 system:
>      >
>      > daryl at trieli:/media/daryl/b48b3666-5550-4407-859d-74f11d287875/home/mythtv$ ls -al .mythtv
>      > total 52
>      > drwxr-xr-x 8 gdm  lxd   4096 Oct  5 15:37 .
>      > drwxr-xr-x 5 gdm  lxd   4096 Apr  9  2022 ..
>      > drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm  lxd   4096 Nov  7  2020 3rdParty
>      > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gdm  lxd    143 Apr  9  2022 antenna.xmltv
>      > drwxr-xr-x 6 gdm  lxd   4096 Mar  1  2021 cache
>      > drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm  lxd  12288 Oct 15 17:42 channels
>      > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 Nov  7  2020 config.xml -> /etc/mythtv/config.xml
>      > drwx------ 2 gdm  lxd   4096 Nov  7  2020 HardwareProfile
>      > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gdm  lxd    143 Oct  5 15:37 intenna.xmltv
>      > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gdm  lxd    143 Apr  9  2022 SD.xmltv
>      > drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm  lxd   4096 Nov  7  2020 themes
>      > drwxr-xr-x 4 gdm  lxd   4096 Nov  7  2020 tmp
>      > daryl at trieli:/media/daryl/b48b3666-5550-4407-859d-74f11d287875/home/mythtv$
>      >
>      >
> 
>     That looks like the 20.04 system was mounted while on the 22.04 system and
>     the user names and group names are from your 22.04 /etc/{password,group}
>     files.
> 
>     Did you use: chown -R mythtv:mythtv ~mythtv on your 22.04 system?
> 
>     -- 
>     Bill
> 
> 
> I think so:
>   daryl at trieli:~$ ls -al ~mythtv
> total 28
> drwxr-x--- 5 mythtv mythtv 4096 Jan  6 08:22 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root   root   4096 Dec 23 09:54 ..
> -rw------- 1 mythtv mythtv   20 Jan  6 08:17 .lesshst
> drwxr-xr-x 8 mythtv mythtv 4096 Jan  6 08:48 .mythtv
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mythtv mythtv   48 Jan  6 08:23 .mythtv.xmltv.TMP
> drwx------ 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Jan  6 09:47 .smolt
> drwxrwxr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Jan  6 11:39 .xmltv
> daryl at trieli:~$

OK, then that makes Hika's original response to this thread correct.

The files above were likely had owner:group gdm:lxd . That means
everything that was owned by mythtv on the 20.04 system is now
wrong. That includes recordings/banners/fanart/very long list.

What do these return:

   sudo find / -user lxd -ls 2>/dev/null | wc
   sudo find / -user lxd -ls 2>/dev/null

The output from the 1st command and just a few lines from
the 2nd are all that are needed.

Based on that, some suggestions can be made.

-- 
Bill



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