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

[Douglas Peale]

On 11/9/18 9:55 AM, Bill Meek wrote:
> 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.
>
How should I delete the override? I tried running

sudo systemctl edit mythtv-backend.service

and deleting the lines I added, but it gave an error message about the temp file being empty, and refused to save the changes.


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