[mythtv-users] Theme question

[Mike Carron]

That explains everything, thanks.

mike

On 12/21/2014 09:41 AM, John P Poet wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net 
> <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 12/20/2014 10:53 PM, John P Poet wrote:
>
>
>         On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Mike Carron
>         <jmcarron at starstream.net <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net>
>         <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net
>         <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net>>> wrote:
>
>             Is there a reason why I should expect that installing the same
>             version of Mythbuntu (12.04 and promptly upgrading Myth to
>         27.4)
>             from the same USB stick onto two different machines would
>         product
>             a different selection of available themes in Setup ->
>         Theme Chooser?
>
>             On one machine, a Zotac ID36, I get what is apparently the
>         full
>             catalog of themes, including MythCenter, MythCenter-Wide,
>             Arclight, Mythbuntu, Terra and several others. On the other
>             machine, a Zotac AD03, I get Mythbuntu, MythCenter,
>             Mythcenter-Wide and Terra, none of the others. I can
>         re-install on
>             the AD03 and get exactly the same result so it shouldn't be a
>             matter of a botched install. Is there something in the install
>             process that prevents certain themes from being installed on
>             certain hardware?
>
>             Incidentally, prior to upgrading the MythTV from 0.25 to
>         0.27 all
>             front ends presented the same themes in Theme Chooser.
>
>
>         It is probably a permission issue.   Make sure that the
>         ~/.mythtv directory (and all of it sub-directories) are
>         writable by whatever user(s) is running mythbackend and
>         mythfrontend.
>
>         John
>
>     ***
>     Different themes can have different permissions?
>
>
> MythCenter, Mythcenter-Wide and Terra ship with myth by default.   
> Since you are running Mythbuntu, I am guessing that is being included 
> by default as well.   All other themes are downloaded "on demand".  I 
> am guessing that myth does not have permission to download the 
> requested themes to the directories it wants to download them to.
>
> Assuming your myth user is 'mythtv', try something like:
>
> $ sudo chown -R mythtv:mythtv /home/mythtv
> $ sudo chmod -R ug+rwX /home/mythtv
>
> and see if that fixes the problem.
>
> John
>
>
>
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