[mythtv-users] debian multimedia screw-up

[Doug Larrick]

Yan Seiner wrote:
> I've been building my own versions from source.  This time I tried to 
> install .debs from debian-multimedia.org
> 
> I am getting these errors, and I can't figure out how.  When I first 
> installed these, I got some messages that a part of the configuration 
> has to be done as a member of the group 'mythtv'.  Silly me, I figured I 
> could always find that in an FAQ somewhere.  No joy.  Now I have a 
> broken myth install, and I can't figure out how to fix it...  Anyone out 
> there using debian-multimedia?


> dpkg: error processing mythtv-common (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

mythtv-common's postinst script is failing.  You can find this script
at/var/lib/dpkg/info/mythtv-common.postinst .  It's doing things like
make sure the MythTV user is set up properly.  You might take a look and
see if you can figure out what's going wrong.

-Doug

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