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

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Jan 28 16:50:01 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:41:37AM -0500, Ian Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:
> 
> > On 01/28/2014 11:24 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
> >
> >> When I VNC, I'm logged in as 'ian' not 'mythtv'. Mythfrontend is already
> >> running on combined fe/be and Setup/General shows the mythtv user running
> >> it.
> >>
> >
> > FWIW, it may be a lot quicker--since you're just trying to run
> > mythtv-setup--to just download a live DVD (like http://www.ubuntu.com/
> > download/desktop ), then boot it up, start a terminal, then:
> >
> > ssh -l mythtv -Y backendserver
> >
> > The problems you're having are due to the complexity of making an X server
> > work on Windows.  Since mythtv-setup is generally a "once and done" thing,
> > you shouldn't need to keep going back to mythtv-setup, so it may make a lot
> > more sense to try the easy way--even if it requires booting from a live DVD.
> >
> 
> I finally broke down --  since the missus was asking about a show on the
> new channel -- and ran mythtv-setup from the mythbuntu menu. I exited w/o
> running mythfilldatabase (as that would run it as me) and sudo su'd it as
> the mythtv user to grab the listings. I hand copied a channel logo over to
> the /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels dir.
> 
> Since I don't see any more OTA channels popping up in the near future (this
> one recently got a power boost approved to reach into Toronto) that and the
> WAF made me do it.
> 
> I guess I should make my desktop dual boot to Ubuntu...get around all the
> Windoze shenanigans when ever I do need to run this.

    No need for that. Just run it in a VM.

    Plus VMs are handy for trying out new versions of stuff before you go
to the trouble of upgrading something and it becomes a disaster. 

    New versions of Linux distros. 
    Alternate HTPC software (like MCE). 
    New versions of Windows.	
    New versions of MythTV.



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