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

[Rodney D. Myers]

On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Sascha Vogt wrote:

>>>
>>> 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-


What are the permissions supposed to be? Mine are;

cd .mythtv/
sh-3.1$ ls -la
total 80
drwxr-xr-x  9 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-07-14 09:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 34 mythtv mythtv  4096 2009-03-09 18:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-07-11 23:20 channels
lrwxrwxrwx  1 mythtv mythtv    11 2009-02-16 20:40 lircrc -> /etc/lircrc
-rw-r--r--  1 mythtv mythtv   981 2009-03-09 16:55 mysql.txt
drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-07-14 09:35 MythFlix
drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-07-12 21:09 MythNews
drwxr-xr-x  4 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-07-12 18:03 MythPhone
drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-08-17 14:44 MythWeather
-rw-r--r--  1 mythtv mythtv 28786 2006-07-12 21:10 MythWeatherradar.jpg
drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 12288 2009-03-09 18:54 osdcache
drwxr-xr-x  3 mythtv mythtv  4096 2006-11-21 15:16 themecache