[mythtv-users] Mytharchive issue- No themes to select from
Paul Harrison
mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
Sun Sep 23 09:03:27 UTC 2007
CTD wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I installed the mytharchive plugin from compiling the 0.20.2 source on a
> Mandriva 2007 based system. When I finally got around to attempting to
> use this plug-in for the first time I am having issues.
>
<snip>
> It appears that I have themes in the mytharchive directory:
> [root at localhost mythplugins-0.20.2]# ls -al
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/mytharchive/themes/
> total 7
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Jan 24 2007 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 1024 Jan 24 2007 ../
> drwxr--r-- 3 root root 1024 Jan 24 2007 Compact/
> drwxr--r-- 3 root root 1024 Jan 24 2007 G.A.N.T./
> drwxr--r-- 3 root root 1024 Jan 24 2007 MythCenter/
> drwxr--r-- 3 root root 1024 Jan 24 2007 MythCenter - Autoplay/
> drwxr--r-- 3 root root 1024 Jan 24 2007 Simple - Autoplay/
>
> Any ideas? I bet it is something basic. I could not find any other
> posting for a "no theme" issue.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>
Looks like it's a permissions problem. If you're running mythfrontend as
a not root user then it wont be able read any files in those theme
directories you have listed above. You need to add the 'x' bit so non
root users can see the files in those theme directories.
Paul H.
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