[mythtv-users] downloadRemoteFile(): DOWNLOAD_FILE returned ERROR!

[Martin Kleinschmidt]

apendix2:

in the verbose backend log on startup:

2011-11-26 16:16:25.721 mythbackend version: fixes/0.24 [v0.24.1-101-g5da2367] www.mythtv.org
2011-11-26 16:16:25.725 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2011-11-26 16:16:25.726 Using configuration directory = /dev/null/.mythtv
2011-11-26 16:16:25.727 (old)Settings::ReadSettings(settings.txt) - No such file
2011-11-26 16:16:25.728 (old)Settings::ReadSettings(/usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt) - No such file
2011-11-26 16:16:25.728 (old)Settings::ReadSettings(/usr/etc/mythtv/mysql.txt) - No such file
2011-11-26 16:16:25.729 (old)Settings::ReadSettings(/dev/null/.mythtv/mysql.txt) - No such file
2011-11-26 16:16:25.729 (old)Settings::ReadSettings(./mysql.txt) - No such file


(note the /dev/null) 
and later, when trying the download:

2011-11-26 16:19:31.340 MythSocket(9b5cb80:32): read  <- 32 120 DOWNLOAD_FILE[]:[]ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mythtv/themes/0.24/Mythbuntu-1.0_0.24.zip[]:[]Temp[]:[]Mythbuntu-1.0_0.24.zip
2011-11-26 16:19:31.341 ProcessAddRemoveQueues
2011-11-26 16:19:31.345 Construct FD_SET
2011-11-26 16:19:31.346 SG() Error: Could not create builtinStorage Group directory '/dev/null/.mythtv/tmp' for 'Temp'
2011-11-26 16:19:31.346 Waiting on select..
2011-11-26 16:19:31.348 Got data on select
2011-11-26 16:19:31.347 SG() Error: Could not create builtinStorage Group directory '/dev/null/.mythtv/themes' for 'Themes'
2011-11-26 16:19:31.349 Processing ready reads
2011-11-26 16:19:31.351 MythSocketThread: Total read time: 0ms, on sockets
2011-11-26 16:19:31.350 MSqlQuery::exec(DBManager1) SELECT DISTINCT dirname FROM storagegroup WHERE groupname = 'Temp' AND hostname = 'localhost' <<<< Returns 0 row(s)
2011-11-26 16:19:31.353 SG(Temp): FindNextDirMostFree: Starting
2011-11-26 16:19:31.354 SG(Temp): FindNextDirMostFree: Unable to find any directories to use.
2011-11-26 16:19:31.354 Unable to determine directory to write to in DOWNLOAD_FILE write command


so obviously this "configuration directory" is erroneously set to
/dev/null. But why is that?
/home/mythtv/.mythtv exists!