[mythtv-users] can't enter mythtv password for mythtv-setup when I X in via ssh

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 01:22:39 UTC 2020


Tried Mobaxterm. Was able to get into setup, but couldn't navigate.

I gave up and used VNC. Still interested to understand what happened.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 8:53 PM Ian Evans, <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> Trying to do some repack stuff via mythtv setup.
>
> I'm running XMing and Putty to handle the X forwarding. Hve no problem
> running something like thunar and getting the dialog.
>
> just ran mythtv-setup. After a countless number of lines of:
>
> (gksu:20869): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS
> daemon:
> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-n23xcAVQWt: Connection refused
> GConf Error: No D-BUS daemon running
>
> The dialog box appears asking me to type the mythtv password to shutdown
> the backend. I type the password, but nothing gets entered in the dialog
> box.
>
> I've never seen this error message before. Doing a quick Google search,
> I'm still not sure what to do.
>
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