[mythtv-users] Running mythtv-setup over X as mythtv user

[Another Sillyname]

OK, sorry to be anal but I want to make sure we're both on the same page.

1.  Are you logged into the remote box as your 'normal' (i.e. non root) account?

2.  When you run mythfrontend does it crash immediately?

3.  If answer to 2 above is no can you go into setup (should be 6th
item on list) and see in there who you're logging onto the backend as.



On 28 January 2014 16:03, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 8:49, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>> In windoze running putty, so I'm not seeing the ssh command line
>>>>> directly. Just have 'Enable X11 forwarding' set.
>>>>>
>>>>> Try bypassing it.  On your server, open a terminal and run "xhost
>>>>> +machine_running_mythtvsetup".  On your client, run "export
>>>>> DISPLAY=machine_running_server:0.0", and then run mythtv-setup.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Again may be the lack of caffeine but...
>>>>
>>>> a) ssh'd into my myth server ran xhost +the_name_of_my_myth_server and
>>>> got xhost:  unable to open display "localhost:10.0"
>>>>
>>>> b) since I'm using Putty on windoze I don't have a client window to run
>>>> the export in before the ssh connection is made.
>>>>
>>> Ah...never mind...I see that xhost +machine_running_mythtvsetup is the
>>> name of the machine that I'm using to connect to the myth box. I'll give
>>> this a whirl in mobaxterm
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Wirth MobaXterm, you don't need to do any of that, it automatically sets
>> up the right environment variables and port forwards, as I recall. Just open
>> a terminal, ssh to the box you want, and it should 'just work'
>>
>
> Okay...I keep getting fatal errors and Mobaxterm crashes when I try to run
> mythtv-setup.
>
> VNC method:
> In response to Another Sillyname, I run VNC as well. I can also run
> mythtv-setup from the program menu when I VNC in but mythbuntu runs it as me
> and not as mythtv.
>
> If I open a terminal on the mythbox (that is VNC in, and mouse over to
> Applications>System>Terminal) I can try sudo su - mythtv -c "mythtv-setup"
> but then I get a bunch of protocol errors and "cannot open display: :0.0"
> Again this is with VNC and not ssh.
>
> Again, in the VNC method I can run mythtv-setup as me, but not as the mythtv
> user.
>
> One of those little annoyances. I've only needed to run mythtv-setup a few
> times over the years, but another OTA signal has just become available in my
> neck of the woods.
>
>
>
>
>
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