I came across this one... It has to do with $HOME not being defined. My fix was to put at the start of the script:
HOME=/home/mythtv and then it all started working. Nasty gotcha Andrew On 15/12/05, Adam Egger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/13/05, Marius Schrecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks everyone who answered this. My backend now starts as I want it. > > So what is actually the solution for this "Failed to init > MythContext"? There are very often people asking why the init script > doesn't start for them on debian with the default init script from > Matt Zimmerman: > > 2005-12-15 09:07:39.327 Using runtime prefix = /usr > 2005-12-15 09:07:39.646 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt > 2005-12-15 09:07:39.745 Trying to create a basic mysql.txt file > 2005-12-15 09:07:39.824 Could not create //.mythtv > 2005-12-15 09:07:39.939 Failed to init MythContext, exiting. > > Adam > _______________________________________________ > 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
