[mythtv-users] Ubuntu restore & unable to get past "select your preferred language" screen

[Sascha Vogt]

Hi Rodney,

Rodney D. Myers schrieb:
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 03/09/2009 12:16 PM, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
>>> Every time I reboot, or logout from the mythtv user, and log back in,
>>> I get the "Select your preferred language" screen. I do as asked, but
>>> makes no difference.
>>> [snip]
>>> I have no idea how to get the account to remember the settings each
>>> and every time.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Your system is using different identifiers on startup (i.e. DHCP is
>> causing the IP address to change or ...) or your ~/.mythtv/config.xml
>> or mysql.txt (which could exist in any number of places) is wrong.
>>
>> I don't know how Ubuntu does their config.xml/mysql.txt stuff, so I'll
>> let an Ubuntu user help.
>>
>> Mike
> 
> Static IP.
> 
> I'll look at the files you mentioned, and see what is happening.

Maybe some of these files are not writeable? And so the save is only
temporary... Did you check file access rights after restoring your backup?

Greetings
-Sascha-