[mythtv-users] mythvidexport was working now errors out

[Mike Perkins]

On 14/09/13 07:52, William Jacoby wrote:
>
> Genius.  Did this and was able to see that it wasn't able to access the DB, I
> needed to copy the contents of my config.xml file from my home-.mythtv directory
> to mythtv's home-.mythtv directory. Now it all works.  In fact I may of had this
> same problem via the 10.04 to 11.04 upgrade and had this same conversation with
> Raymond Wagner on irc then. So I'm off to put this in my install notes so I
> don't need to ask again. This was definitely embarrassing.
>
On my system I make all .mythtv references symlinks to /etc/mythtv. That way 
there can be no confusion as to where things are and what values they contain.

If the system updates those files for any reason I know that the values will 
still be consistent whatever user I am currently running as.

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Mike Perkins