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Theme Chooser not downloading

Submitted by clayton.erickson on February 28, 2011 - 9:02pm

I am trying to use the new theme chooser to download a new theme but having no luck. I get a few different results. First error message is "error downloading theme package on master back end". The other result is that the downloader simply does nothing and times out.

I have tried tailing both the mythfrontend and mythbackend logs but am not seeing anything.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
Clayton

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I had this same problem and

Submitted by dgnt on December 8, 2011 - 7:49pm.

I had this same problem and the problem and figured it out. Theme Chooser downloads the files to /usr/share/mythtv/themes

On my machine, the 'mythtv' user did not have privileges over this directory so it couldn't download anything to this directory. I changed the ownership and group permissions of this directory from 'root' to 'mythtv'. In a terminal shell type the following:

sudo chown -R mythtv /usr/share/mythtv
sudo chgrp -R mythtv /usr/share/mythtv

Good luck!!

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I've had the same problem

Submitted by jpatmore on February 28, 2011 - 10:24pm.

I've had the same problem with "error downloading theme from master backend". I get this whenever I try to download a theme, but if I try again immediately after getting the message, then it works. Not sure about the timeout issue though.

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