First, I just wanted to say thanks to rfpeake for posting the work around. That also worked for me.
For further collaboration, I was experiencing the same exact scenario on a newly setup KVM box running Ubuntu 12.04.4 with ubundu-desktop installed followed by mythtv-backend, mysql-server, and mythtv-database. Nothing else had been installed at this point. Clean fresh setup. I went one step further to verify gksudo by using this command to launch a clock requiring the GUI. $ gksudo xclock the graphical interface did accept my sudo member password and launch the clock, but the graphical password verification that is launched by myth backend setup never would accept the correct password. I did notice that the password prompt brought up by the clock test did not have the option to save the password, which the prompt for MythTV did. So I'm assuming MythTv is using a different interface for password verification then gksudo. One last observation if it helps. MythTV would never acknowledge that my user was in the group called mythtv. It would prompt me to add myself which of course launches a graphical password prompt which fails. After manually adding myself to the group using command... $ sudo adduser steve mythtv verifying success with $ cat /etc/group and then logging out and back in. MythTV continued to balk that I needed to be in that group. It's almost as if the interface between MythTV and the local security systems of Ubuntu is in some part disconnected. I chose to disable the message and MythTV seems to work after I completed the configuration. Once again, thanks to rfpeake for taking the time to post your workaround for those of us that didn't come up with that on our own. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1203184 Title: MythTV backend does not recognize valid password: no GUI To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wvdial/+bug/1203184/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
