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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/14/20 7:00 AM, Ian Evans wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 4:20
AM Mike Bibbings, <<a
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> Trying to do some repack stuff via mythtv setup.<br>
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> I'm running XMing and Putty to handle the X
forwarding. Hve no problem <br>
> running something like thunar and getting the dialog.<br>
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> just ran mythtv-setup. After a countless number of
lines of:<br>
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> (gksu:20869): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to
connect to the D-BUS <br>
> daemon:<br>
> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-n23xcAVQWt:
Connection refused<br>
> GConf Error: No D-BUS daemon running<br>
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> The dialog box appears asking me to type the mythtv
password to <br>
> shutdown the backend. I type the password, but
nothing gets entered in <br>
> the dialog box.<br>
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> I've never seen this error message before. Doing a
quick Google <br>
> search, I'm still not sure what to do.<br>
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If you are running mythtv fixes/31 under Ubuntu/Debian ,
the password <br>
required is your user login password, not the mythtv
database password.<br>
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This is because mythtv uses systemctl commands (which
require sudo <br>
permission) to stop/start mythbackend.<br>
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<div dir="auto">29-fixes and yes was entering the user password
like I do if I'm on the machine itself. </div>
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<div dir="auto">My point was that nothing was being recognized
by the login box. Typing on the remote keyboard didn't result
in black password cloaking dots and enter did nothing. That's
why I gave up and ran VNC. </div>
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I would guess the sudo password or systemctl password has some
security protections against being entered over a possibly unsecure
connection. Anither alternative is just shutting down the backend
via a systemctl command before running the remote mythtv-setup if
you are doing this.<br>
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