I'm running mythbackend as root and mythfrontend as my everyday user "patrick", since the myth folder is in patrick's home directory, I don't think there should be any problems with it.
On 7/9/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Cudahy wrote: > > >I've got what seems to be a simple problem, but I guess I'm too tired > >to see the solution. I've just gone through setting up my first myth > >box but when I go to watch live tv I get a blank screen. The log says > >that it can't read ringbuf1.nuv in /home/patrick/myth (The directory > >I've created for myth and entered in mythsetup). > > > >2005-07-09 23:12:18.612 RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read(). > >Couldn't read file: rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/home/patrick/myth/ringbuf1.nuv > >2005-07-09 23:12:18.629 LiveTV not successfully started > > > >In all the message boards I've searched in it says this is a simple > >permissions problem. But "ls -l /home/patrick" gives > > > ><snip> > >drwxrwxrwx 2 patrick root 4096 Jul 9 23:29 myth > > > >And the actual folder doesn't have a ringbuf1.nuv in it (or any files > >for that matter). But the directory should be accessible to mythtv. > >What am I missing? Any help for a lowly n00b would be appreciated. > > > > > What user is myth running as and do they have permissions to all the > folders leading up to the one you posted? > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
