[mythtv-users] fail to shut down

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 03:32:11 UTC 2014


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/01/2014 08:32 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> > I've looked at the setwakeup.sh in Precise and Trusty and they look the
>>
>>> same to me, same ownership and same permissions. Where should I go from
>>> here?
>>>
>>
>> Test it from the command line. First, become the mythtv user:
>>
>>     sudo --set-home --login --user=mythtv
>>
>> Then execute the failing command using the current time + 120 seconds:
>>
>>     sudo /usr/bin/setwakeup.sh $((`date +'%s'` + 120)) ; echo $?
>>
>> You want to see a 0 returned from the echo $? command.
>>
>> Note that you shouldn't be prompted for a password,
>> assuming /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv is setup properly. If
>> you still have your old root partition available, you
>> can mount it and look at what was there before.
>>
>> When you're done testing, don't forget to press control-d
>> to become yourself again. Or just close the terminal window.
>>
>> --
>> Bill
>>
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>
> Well I'm scratching my head, I thought we'd found it because after
> becoming mythtv user I was asked for a password after entering the next
> command, so I mounted the Precise root and the comparison follows:
>
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ cd
> /media/daryl/10b4bdaf-d0f0-4f4d-b003-8049f075c12a
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:/media/daryl/10b4bdaf-d0f0-4f4d-b003-8049f075c12a$
> sudo cat /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv
> [sudo] password for daryl:
> #%mythtv ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown, /usr/bin/setwakeup.sh
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:/media/daryl/10b4bdaf-d0f0-4f4d-b003-8049f075c12a$ ls
> -l /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv
> -r--r----- 1 root root 63 Aug 29 09:29 /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:/media/daryl/10b4bdaf-d0f0-4f4d-b003-8049f075c12a$ cd
> ~
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv
> #%mythtv ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown, /usr/bin/setwakeup.sh
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv
> -r--r----- 1 root root 63 Aug 29 09:29 /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>
> I've got Precise and Trusty in dual boot at the moment, and I went back to
> the wakeuptest.sh you pastebined for me last year Bill and put it in each
> systems home directory, It works perfectly from Precise and fails from
> Trusty. I have looked at the wiki and the 107 post "carbon footprint"
> thread at least three times each and I'm stymied. As always, open to
> suggestions.
>

I should have included this earlier:

 daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo --set-home --login --user=mythtv
$  sudo /usr/bin/setwakeup.sh $((`date +'%s'` + 120)) ; echo $?
[sudo] password for mythtv:
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