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

[Peter Bennett]

On 3/14/20 7:00 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 4:20 AM Mike Bibbings, <mike.bibbings at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mike.bibbings at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 14/03/2020 00:53, Ian Evans 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.
>
>
>     If you are running mythtv fixes/31 under Ubuntu/Debian , the password
>     required is your user login password, not the mythtv database
>     password.
>
>     This is because mythtv uses systemctl commands (which require sudo
>     permission)  to stop/start mythbackend.
>
>
>
> 29-fixes and yes was entering the user password like I do if I'm on 
> the machine itself.
>
> My point was that nothing was being recognized by the login box. 
> Typing on the remote keyboard didn't result in black password cloaking 
> dots and enter did nothing. That's why I gave up and ran VNC.
>
>
>
I would guess the sudo password or systemctl password has some security 
protections against being entered over a possibly unsecure connection. 
Anither alternative is just shutting down the backend via a systemctl 
command before running the remote mythtv-setup if you are doing this.

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