themecache - Failed to save cached image

[Caysho]

mythbuntu 8.10, current updates, described in the mythbuntu forum at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=640337

From the mythfrontend.log:

==> /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log <==
2009-02-20 18:11:23.381 Failed to save cached image: /home/mythtvuser/.mythtv/themecache/Mythbuntu-8.04.1920.1080/news-info-bg.png
2009-02-20 18:11:23.385 Failed to save cached image: /home/mythtvuser/.mythtv/themecache/Mythbuntu-8.04.1920.1080/next_button_off.png
2009-02-20 18:11:23.388 Failed to save cached image: /home/mythtvuser/.mythtv/themecache/Mythbuntu-8.04.1920.1080/next_button_on.png

~/.mythtv/ needs to be read/write by group mythtv. A default install has it read only.

[Caysho (caysho)]

Bug still present in the 9.04 beta (daily build 9th April 2009).

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

Thank you for reporting this issue. I'm marking as triaged since you were kind enough to include a possible fix.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

By "group" mythtv? Isn't it normally just ran by your user? Can you show the permissions on the directory? (ls -alhR ~/.mythtv)

[Caysho (caysho)]

The user created at install time is part of the mythtv group.

mythtvuser@pvr:~$ ls -alhR ~/.mythtv
/home/mythtvuser/.mythtv:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 mythtv mythtvuser 4.0K 2009-04-13 16:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 mythtvuser mythtvuser 4.0K 2009-04-14 17:31 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mythtv root 15 2009-04-13 16:57 lircrc -> ../.lirc/mythtv
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mythtv root 21 2009-04-13 16:49 mysql.txt -> /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

See, now that's odd. I just did a fresh install and it came out
differently:
testtest@testtest-laptop:~$ ls -alhR .mythtv/
.mythtv/:
total 64K
drwxr-xr-x 3 testtest testtest 4.0K 2009-04-13 14:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 28 testtest testtest 4.0K 2009-04-14 23:14 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 testtest testtest 424 2009-04-14 23:05 config.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 testtest testtest 46K 2009-04-13 14:32 errorlogs.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2009-04-13 19:17 lircrc ->
../.lirc/mythtv
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-04-13 19:14 mysql.txt ->
/etc/mythtv/mysql.txt
drwxr-xr-x 3 testtest testtest 4.0K 2009-04-14 19:31 themecache

.mythtv/themecache:
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 3 testtest testtest 4.0K 2009-04-14 19:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 testtest testtest 4.0K 2009-04-13 14:32 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 testtest testtest 4.0K 2009-04-14 19:31
Mythbuntu-8.04-wide.1280.720

.mythtv/themecache/Mythbuntu-8.04-wide.1280.720:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 testtest testtest 4.0K 2009-04-14 19:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 testtest testtest 4.0K 2009-04-14 19:31 ..

Can you please indicate what options you picked during install?

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:34, Caysho <email address hidden> wrote:

> The user created at install time is part of the mythtv group.
>
> mythtvuser@pvr:~$ ls -alhR ~/.mythtv
> /home/mythtvuser/.mythtv:
> total 8.0K
> drwxr-xr-x 2 mythtv mythtvuser 4.0K 2009-04-13 16:57 .
> drwxr-xr-x 25 mythtvuser mythtvuser 4.0K 2009-04-14 17:31 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mythtv root 15 2009-04-13 16:57 lircrc ->
> ../.lirc/mythtv
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mythtv root 21 2009-04-13 16:49 mysql.txt ->
> /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt
>
> --
> themecache - Failed to save cached image
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332736
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--
Mario Limonciello
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[Caysho (caysho)]

The options:
GMT+8 timezone (Perth locale)
I created a user called mythtvuser and set the machine name to pvr.
I selected an MS MCE Philips remote.
For the rest of the screens, I went with the defaults.

Would the ubiquity log contain the right details ?
Should I try it with a current build ? if so, http://www.mythbuntu.org/ is timing out, so please supply a mirror to get it.

NickGray on the ubuntu forum also encountered this problem (see the linked thread), but I have not seen an update there.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Are you allowing it to re-use your home directory?
Did you run mythtv-setup before or after the reboot?

I'm still struggling to find the exact option that would cause this. Unfortunately the bug can lie anywhere in:
ubiquity, mythbuntu-common, mythbuntu-lirc-generator

The website is temporarily down. Please grab ISOs from http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu for now. There hasn't been any recent activity that should change "this" bug's behavior however from the last one you tested.

The syslog gets stored in /var/log/installer/syslog on the finished system.

[Caysho (caysho)]

Sorry, consider this a user error for now - I thought mythtv-setup only covered tuners, guide data and storage areas, not the front end configuration.
I have been unable to get the nvidia drivers working yet ( bug 328305 and bug 333048 ), so I have not yet been going through the full setup process while I work on that.
I will provide an update if I get the problem after running mythtv-setup.

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

Thank you for reporting back on this issue. If it turns out to be a real problem, feel free to re-open this report.