<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">All of your storage directories (/usr/local/media/*) must be writable by the user which the backend is running as.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Running mythtv-setup usually tests this when the storage groups are set up.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">All of my storage directories are owner=mythtv, group=mythtv and for mythtv to work you need to run something like "sudo chown -R mythtv.mythtv /usr/local/media/*" <br><br>a) You must satisfy yourself that doing this meets your own security needs <br>and <br>(b) Realise that changing these permissions may "break" access to your media from other applications or devices<br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 May 2018 at 16:47, Ashu Desai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ashu.desai@gmail.com" target="_blank">ashu.desai@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div dir="ltr">On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 7:34 AM Mark Perkins <<a href="mailto:perkins1724@hotmail.com" target="_blank">perkins1724@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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it came up - but had a ton of problem getting the frontend to talk to it. Found out that the config.xml changes the password so i had to use that goofy password in the "mysql" install.</div>
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So when it finally talked from frontend, i thought yipee. </div>
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2018-05-11 18:28:14.563156 I MythCoreContext::<wbr>ConnectCommandSocket(): Connecting to backend server:
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2018-05-11 18:28:14.592341 I MythCoreContext::<wbr>CheckProtoVersion(): Using protocol version 91 BuzzOff</div>
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2018-05-11 18:29:12.307678 E MythSocket(7ff0c400b050:48): ReadStringList: Error, timed out after 30000 ms.</div>
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2018-05-11 18:29:12.308138 E MythSocket(7ff0c400b050:-1): No response.</div>
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2018-05-11 18:29:12.308161 N MythCoreContext::<wbr>SendReceiveStringList(): Connection to backend server lost</div>
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