[mythtv-users] myth 0.25 prolific log messages

[Dan Littlejohn]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/28/2012 01:39 PM, Dan Littlejohn wrote:
> ...
>
>> These errors are not being thrown by the frontend?  Here are the complete
>>
>> log entries
>>
>> 8 6857871 bachuus mythbackend 7138 7138 CoreContext storagegroup.cpp 85
>> StaticInit 2012-05-28 13:32:34 3 SG() Error: Could not create
>> builtinStorage Group directory '/dev/null/.mythtv/themes' for 'Themes' 9
>>
> etc...
>
> Hi;
>
> The five directories you listed are created at startup if they don't
> exist, using the contents of 'confdir' plus '/themes' for exammple.
>
> How about adding the following just before your init script starts
> mythbackend, and checking the result:
>
>   echo "HOME='$HOME', MYTHCONFDIR='$MYTHCONFDIR'" >> /tmp/confdir.out
>
> Do you have a wrapper script that needs to be checked too (e.g.
> mythbackend calls mythbackend.real?)
>
> You didn't include the entire init script. If you're using the
> --user <username> argument, what is the reault of grep <username>
> /etc/passwd? Does it have its home directory set to /dev/null?
>
> I'd suggest putting the entire log output from a single run in
> http://filebin.ca/ in case there's something happening earlier
> (and to eliminate those pesky split lines in email.)
>
> --
> Bill
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It was the /etc/passwd directory.  Thanks very much.

Dan
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