[ATrpms-users] Issue at boot MYTHCONFDIR error

[Nick Morrott]

On 16/05/2008, Joseph Flack <jflackmd at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I uncommented all sort of lines.  No difference.
>
>  I notice there is a message immediately before the error message:
>
>  .....  using runtime prefix = /usr,libdir = /usr/lib
>
>
>  any significance?

No, only that your MythTV compilation/installation prefix was set to
/usr (typical when installing from prebuilt packages such as those
from atrpms.net) and not /usr/local, which is more common when
compiling from source yourself.

>  Also:
>
>  > One approach would be to export the HOME variable from the init script
> > before the mythbackend service is started, and see whether this fixes
> > the problem. I could not tell from your initial post whether you had
> > explicitly exported HOME or just set it.
>
>
>  I think I set HOME in my various changes.
>
>   Could you explain how to export HOME and in what file?

If you want to use /home/mythtv as your $HOME, put

export HOME=/home/mythtv/

on (for example) line 42 of the init script from contrib
(http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/branches/release-0-21-fixes/mythtv/contrib/init_scripts/fedora.init.mythbackend#L42)

If this doesn't work, my only other suggestion would be to consider
re-installing the OS (you might consider CentOS in lieu of Fedora for
a more stable and longer-supported OS).

-- 
Nick Morrott

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