[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase failing after OS upgrade

[Daryl McDonald]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 3:18 PM Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/6/23 13:57, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 1:56 PM Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com <mailto:
> keemllib at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 1/6/23 12:53, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> >      >
> >
> >      > daryl at trieli:~$ sudo find / -user lxd 2>/dev/nul | wc
> >      > bash: /dev/nul: Permission denied
> >      >        0       0       0
> >      > daryl at trieli:~$ sudo find / -user lxd -ls 2>/dev/n
> >      > bash: /dev/n: Permission denied
> >
> >     /dev/null, sorry.
> >
> >     --
> >     Bill
> >
> >   daryl at trieli:~$ sudo find / -user lxd -ls 2>/dev/null
> > daryl at trieli:~$
> >
> >     no prob
>
> I'll try again, with the right user name gdm not lxd and add a check
> for group lxd:
>
>    sudo find / -user gdm 2>/dev/null | wc
>    sudo find / -user gdm 2>/dev/null | tail -5
>    sudo find / -group lxd 2>/dev/null | wc
>    sudo find / -group lxd 2>/dev/null | tail -t
>    egrep "^gdm|^lxd" /etc/{passwd,group}
>
> The goal here is to see if gdm:lxd have any files/directories/etc. in use.
> Then move them to new userid:groupid and convert mythtv to the old ids
> which would leave everything that MythTV created as it was on the 20.04
> system.
>
> --
> Bill
>

 daryl at trieli:~$ sudo find / -user gdm 2>/dev/null | wc
[sudo] password for daryl:
   1489    1503  123922
daryl at trieli:~$ sudo find / -user gdm 2>/dev/null | tail -5
/var/lib/gdm3/.cache/tracker3/files/no-need-mtime-check.txt
/var/lib/gdm3/.cache/tracker3/files/locale-for-miner-apps.txt
/var/lib/gdm3/.cache/tracker3/files/first-index.txt
/var/lib/gdm3/.cache/tracker3/files/http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.api.gnome.org
%2Fontology%2Fv3%2Ftracker%23Pictures.db
/var/lib/gdm3/.cache/tracker3/files/http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.api.gnome.org
%2Fontology%2Fv3%2Ftracker%23Audio.db
daryl at trieli:~$    sudo find / -group lxd 2>/dev/null | wc
   1209    1223  107305
daryl at trieli:~$ sudo find / -group lxd 2>/dev/null | tail -t
tail: invalid option -- 't'
Try 'tail --help' for more information.
daryl at trieli:~$ egrep "^gdm|^lxd" /etc/{passwd,group}
/etc/passwd:gdm:x:127:133:Gnome Display Manager:/var/lib/gdm3:/bin/false
/etc/group:gdm:x:133:
/etc/group:lxd:x:134:daryl
daryl at trieli:~$

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