[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:
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> 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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