[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 20 May 2020 21:26:10 -0700, you wrote:

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>Finally got mine straightened out (using mythbackend to spawn mythfilldatabase).  In my (fedora) mythbackend.service file, the Environment=MYTHCONFDIR=/etc/mythtv tells mythbackend (and mythfilldatabase) to look in /etc/mythtv for its .xmltv file(s), which were residing in /var/lib/mythtv, which is the home directory of the mythtv user (that mythbackend runs as) as defined in /etc/passwd.  I figured out what went wrong by looking at /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase*, which told me it couldn't find the .xmltv file in /etc/mythtv.  As root, I symlinked from /etc/mythtv/*.xmltv to /var/lib/mythtv and now have SUCCESS in the mythfilldatabase results.  I don't know about other distros, but all the docs refer to /home/mythtv, which did me no good at all.  What a convoluted mess!! 
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>Dave D.

/home/mythtv is for Ubuntu, the most commonly used distro for MythTV.
Debian and Fedora use the directories you have found.