[mythtv-users] Directory not writeable

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Wed Nov 4 07:22:22 UTC 2015


On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 04:00:43 +1300, you wrote:

>On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 15:37:44 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>Hoi Stephen,
>>
>>Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 3:11:47 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>Delete the .mythtv directory in /root, so you will notice immediately.
>
>Excellent suggestion, thank you.  Done.

Except it seems that mythexport requires /root/.mythtv to be
configured, so I have had to restore it.


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