[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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