[mythtv-users] Front end only works as root?

[Michael J Luich]

I had some similar probles. I found there were files in /root/.mythtv not 
in my other user check that all your files are in both places and READABLE 
as mythtv.

Michael Luich

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:09:04 -0500, Joshua Pollak 
<pardsbane at offthehill.org> wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> I finally have gotten most of my setup-bugs worked out, and now I'm
> making some progress. I've got the mythbackend running as user mythtv,
> but when I run mythfrontend as the same user and then try and watch
> Live TV, I just get a blank screen which I can't do anything will,
> except SSH in and kill the process (or Ctrl-Alt-Fx).
>
> Strangely, mythfrontend runs as root though. Also, mplayer and xawtv
> run fine as user mythtv.
>
> Any ideas?
>



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