[mythtv-users] I broke my mythTV, help!

[Bill Meek]

On 11/9/18 11:47 AM, Ian Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 17:24, Douglas Peale <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> $ sudo chown -h mythtv:mythtv mythtv
>> $ ls -l
>> rwxrwxrwx  1 mythtv mythtv   53 Nov  4 16:50 mythtv ->
>> /mnt/f9d5db19-7551-41dd-ba43-9c07f0a8305e/home/mythtv
>> $ sudo -H -i -u mythtv env
>> sudo: unable to change directory to /home/mythtv: Permission denied
>> sudo: unable to execute /bin/sh: Permission denied
>>
>>
>> Nope, changing the user and group of the soft link was not sufficient to
>> fix the problem.
>>
> 
> You should check the ownership and permissions of the parent directories
> back to the root from the real location, i.e. from:
> /mnt/f9d5db19-7551-41dd-ba43-9c07f0a8305e/home/mythtv back to /.  The
> ownership isn't so important, but you'll want r-x for 'other' on each
> parent directory permission.
> 
> Cheers, Ian

I'd add using ls -ld, as in: ls -ld / /mnt /mnt/f9d5db19-7551-41dd-ba43-9c07f0a8305e etc.

Likely the cause of the config.xml not being found. So if this works, then
you can delete the override if you like.

-- 
Bill