Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mythtv-backend
I've been having some difficulty with the filesystem I'm using for
/home. This means that that filesystem has occasionally failed to
mount. This is annoying, but it interacts with /etc/init.d/mythtv-
backend in a bad way too...
If /home doesn't mount, the mythtv-backend startup script runs anyway.
And that startup script, on line 51, does this:
mkdir -p $USER_HOME/.mythtv
which, because of the -p option, creates files in /home even if
$USER_HOME doesn't exist (because the mount failed).
This causes all future attempts to mount /home to fail! (until the
newly created files are removed.)
Might I suggest that the '-p' option here be removed. If $USER_HOME
exists, this will still create the .mythtv directory, but if /home isn't
mounted then nothing bogus will be created.
This is on jaunty with mythtv-backend version 0.21.0+fixes19556-0ubuntu6
** Affects: mythtv (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: mythtv-backend
I've been having some difficulty with the filesystem I'm using for
/home. This means that that filesystem has occasionally failed to
mount. This is annoying, but it interacts with /etc/init.d/mythtv-
backend in a bad way too...
If /home doesn't mount, the mythtv-backend startup script runs anyway.
And that startup script, on line 51, does this:
mkdir -p $USER_HOME/.mythtv
which, because of the -p option, creates files in /home even if
$USER_HOME doesn't exist (because the mount failed).
This causes all future attempts to mount /home to fail! (until the
newly created files are removed.)
Might I suggest that the '-p' option here be removed. If $USER_HOME
exists, this will still create the .mythtv directory, but if /home isn't
mounted then nothing bogus will be created.
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+ This is on jaunty with mythtv-backend version 0.21.0+fixes19556-0ubuntu6
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MythTV creates files in /home even if mount /home fails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326702
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