[mythtv-users] Fresh Install From Scratch

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Sat Dec 20 12:39:16 EST 2003


On Saturday 20 December 2003 11:53, Myth Man wrote:
> 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 /]$ 

You typically need to be root to install or update packages with rpm.

-JAC



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