On 04/02/14 11:07, Jon N wrote: > Hi, > > I've built a new machine and installed 64bit Debian testing on it. I > also installed MythTV from the *deb-multimedia repository*.
<snipped> > > I did read the README.Debian file for MythTV and tried running 'sudo > -u mythtv mythtv-setup, but get the message "mythtv-setup: cannot > connect to X server :0.0". To make matters perhaps a little more > troublesome there seems to be a little trouble with the new computer's > hostname so when I try the suggestion in README.Debian, 'xhost +local' > (as is, or substituting my hostname for 'local') i get a "...bad > hostname..." error message. What does:- $ hostname give you? Does it match the value in /etc/hosts ? Have you checked the mythtv config file/s for a hostname setting? > > So, my main question is, other than just convenience how much > difference does it make to be able to run mythtv-setup as myself > rather that as user 'mythtv'? Does it not being able for it to access > the database mean that if I run the frontend as myself it also won't > be able to access the database? As Chris pointed out - this is the wrong list problems with packages from an unofficial repository of Debian packages. If you have a problem with something other than "which user should you run the installer at" it's statistically likely the problem will be a result of an incompatability between debian-multimedia, rather than a problem with Debian. But you can ask - just don't expect a lot of people to know the answers. That said, running a gui app as root 'might' be the cause of your X server error message. I'd suggest asking on the Christian's debian-multimedia.org mailing list:- http://www.deb-multimedia.org/lurker/splash/index.en.html and/or the mythtv list:- http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users/ After searching those lists for existing answers to that question and reviewing your logs of course. :) > > Thanks, > Jon > > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52f05911.4010...@gmail.com
