Comment 4 for bug 546616

No luck. I also have user directories for mythtv and root at /home/mythtv and /root, respectively, and in those, I have .mythtv/config.xml files that symlink back to /etc/mythtv/config.xml.

This:

2010-03-24 21:44:18.345 Using configuration directory = /.mythtv

Does not seem right. I feel like that should be /home/mythtv/.mythtv or /etc/mythtv or /home/geoff/.mythtv.

Have a look at mythdirs.cpp, line 62.
http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#-zNo3rQOo4A/mythtv/libs/libmythdb/mythdirs.cpp&q=myth%20%22using%20configuration%20directory%22&sa=N&cd=1&ct=rc