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lost mythfrontend.sh

Submitted by aussienewby on October 7, 2011 - 4:55am

So i exited the frontend to shuffle some video files and cant get mythtv to start back up.

It says that child process failed

/usr/share/mythdora/mythfrontend.sh cant be found.

I checked the mythdora folder and the file is gone.

Can i get a copy off the install disk?
If i ran the mythdora first boot / setup / config would it reinstall it?
---- if so how do i run that from outside the front end?
---- would that mess up my DB?
Can i get a copy from anyone for mythdora 10:21 (64bit) ?
Can i just copy it in place?
What permissions do i need to tweak?

Thanks
AN

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You can get the RPM off the

Submitted by pisani on October 7, 2011 - 6:34am.

You can get the RPM off the install disk, then you have 2 choices.

1) Re-install the RPM. But this will also reinstall the entire contents of /usr/share/mythdoa.

2) Provided that the only thing that is somehow missing is the mythfrontend.sh, you can just extract the binary rpm, with something like rpm2cpio mythdora-xxx.rpm | cpio -iv (syntax might be a little off). What this will do is extract the directories & paths and content of the rpm, you'll want to do this in TMP or a new empty directory you create somewhere. Then just copy the script in place and make sure it's 755 permissions.

Pisani

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Ok i have the package...

Submitted by aussienewby on October 8, 2011 - 1:04am.

I compared the mythdora folder on my 64 bit master FE/BE to the 32 bit FE in the sunroom and the mythdora folder is almost empty, so i will reinstall it and see how i go.

Thanks AN

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worked like a charm...

Submitted by aussienewby on October 8, 2011 - 1:25am.

Thanks for your help.

AN

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