Mythmusic installer tries to create /var/lib/mythtv/music

[MarkG]

When installing mythmusic on 9.10 (using the latest Mythbuntu release as of today), the installer tries to create /var/lib/mythtv/music. There are two bugs I've found with this, on two different systems:

1. If /var/lib/mythtv/music is a symbolic link, as it is on my backend, the installer replaces the link with an empty directory. It shouldn't be replacing files that already exist.
2. If /var/lib/mythtv is read-only, which it is on my netbook which uses read-only NFS mounts from the backend, then the installer aborts when it can't create the directory. The only way to get the installer to run is to manually create the directory on the NFS server.

Now, I can see that there are good reasons to want that directory to exist, but the installer shouldn't delete existing files or refuse to install if it can't be created.

[MarkG (movieman523)]

Oh, this is 0.22, I forgot that there is also a 0.23 branch now.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Can you please clarify what you're meaning by installer? Do you mean the
live cd installer, or the postinstall scripts for the mythmusic package?

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 23:47, MarkG <email address hidden> wrote:

> Oh, this is 0.22, I forgot that there is also a 0.23 branch now.
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> Mythmusic installer tries to create /var/lib/mythtv/music
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[MarkG (movieman523)]

I mean installing the package from synaptic.

[MarkG (movieman523)]

Looks like the installed version I have here is 0.22.0+fixes22890-0ubuntu0+mythbuntu3, if that helps.

[Thomas Mashos (tgm4883)]

I cannot reproduce this on 9.10 using mythmusic 0.22.0+fixes23230 Please let me know if this is still an issue.

[MarkG (movieman523)]

I'll try uninstalling MythMusic on my netbook and reinstalling it in the next day or two; hopefully that would hit the same code as a clean install.

[MarkG (movieman523)]

I tried the latest version: fixes23230:

1. Installing with /var/lib/mythtv/music being a symbolic link worked: the link wasn't deleted.
2. Uninstalling deleted the symbolic link at /var/lib/mythtv/music.
3. Mounting /var/lib/mythtv/music as read-only and installing produced 'read-only file system' errors while attempting to chown and chmod the directory, but did install.
4. Uninstalling apparently tried to delete the /var/lib/mythtv/music directory but gave 'device or resource busy' errors.

So it looks like install now works OK but deleting the music directory when uninstalling seems a bit extreme!