[mythtv-users] SVN trunk: frontend thinks DB schema is old?

[Tom Lichti]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> The only reasons I could think of for that to happen are if a) the directory
> doesn't exist, b) we don't have permissions to get to the directory to see
> if it exists, or c) the directory isn't a directory, but is a normal file.
>  But, since it seemed to actually work, I'm guessing it's b) where the "have
> permissions" is complicated by ACL's or some SELinux stuff or whatever.
>
> What's exceptionally strange is that we won't use the directory found to not
> exist--even if it's the only directory in the DB Backups storage group.
>  We'd actually fall back to /tmp.  For some reason, even though it
> complained the directory didn't exist, it used it.  Something about that
> directory is fooling the Qt QDir::exists() function.  Any chance you could
> post the output of:
>
> ls -ld /xxx/db-backup

[root at xxx ~]# ls -ld /xxx/db-backup/
drwxr-xr-x 2 33 65534 4096 2009-09-05 15:41 /xxx/db-backup/

I should mention that this file system is NFS mounted from a Western
Digital MyBook NAS device, if that makes a difference.

Tom