[mythtv-users] Fresh Install From Scratch
Myth Man
mythtv at pln.cc
Sat Dec 20 11:53:37 EST 2003
Hello Myth,
Saturday, December 20, 2003, 11:40:40 AM, you wrote:
MM> Hello mythtv-users,
MM> I am doing a completely virgin install of RH9 and MythTV using
MM> Jarod's
MM> http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-page.php?pageName=rh9pvr250
MM> Ran into a little snafu...
MM> The RH9 install went fine. I created a 'mythtv' user. I then SU'd
MM> to 'mythtv' to continue the rest of install.
MM> Well, I couldn't go any further as mythtv, so I continued as root
MM> until such time as I would switch back to mythtv user. I figured
MM> right before I did the apt-get mythtv-suite.
MM> Well, suffice it to say, I forgot. :^(
MM> I have gone past that part as root. And now I am at the spot where
MM> I am configuring the ivtv drivers and it's not working.
MM> As 'mythtv' I do a '/sbin/depmod -a' and I get
MM> depmod: Can't open
MM> /lib/modules/2.4.20-24_31.rh9.at/modules.dep for writing
MM> So, I am guessing that I have to be at 'mythtv' user from the get
MM> go, just like it said in Jarod's docs. Imagine that! :^(
MM> My question is, how can I get back to that point, w/o having to
MM> whack everything and start over. Or would that be the best course
MM> of action? Simply to whack the drive and start over.
MM> Thanx...
UPDATE:
This is what happened when I tried to proceed as 'mythtv' user at
STEP #6:
[root at myth root]# su mythtv
[mythtv at myth root]$ cd /
[mythtv at myth /]$ rpm -ivh http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-19-1.rh9.at.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-19-1.rh9.at.i386.rpm
error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
[mythtv at myth /]$
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Best regards,
Myth mailto:mythtv at pln.cc
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