[mythtv-users] Directory not writeable

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Tue Nov 3 14:11:47 UTC 2015


On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 08:13:04 -0500, you wrote:

>On 11/03/2015 07:55 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> So it looks like something happened to the backend that caused it to
>> not be able to delete the .test files originally when they were first
>> created, and since then because they already existed, the test it does
>> of creating them was failing.
>
>You probably ran mythtv-setup as a user that's not the one who runs 
>mythbackend.
>
>Mike

That makes sense.  The .test files were root:root, so I must have run
mythtv-setup as root accidentally.  I try to avoid doing that, but it
can happen.


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