[Bug 326702] [NEW] MythTV creates files in /home even if mount /home fails

[Mario Limonciello]

Perhaps a check to see if $USER_HOME exists first is better.  If it doesn't
exist, then abort the init script.  Worse things can happen if that home
directory isn't around I think.

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 16:24, Will Uther <willu.mailingLists at cse.unsw.edu.au
> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: mythtv-backend
>
> I've been having some difficulty with the filesystem I'm using for
> /home.  This means that that filesystem has occasionally failed to
> mount.  This is annoying, but it interacts with /etc/init.d/mythtv-
> backend in a bad way too...
>
> If /home doesn't mount, the mythtv-backend startup script runs anyway.
> And that startup script, on line 51, does this:
>
> mkdir -p $USER_HOME/.mythtv
>
> which, because of the -p option, creates files in /home even if
> $USER_HOME doesn't exist (because the mount failed).
>
> This causes all future attempts to mount /home to fail!  (until the
> newly created files are removed.)
>
> Might I suggest that the '-p' option here be removed.  If $USER_HOME
> exists, this will still create the .mythtv directory, but if /home isn't
> mounted then nothing bogus will be created.
>
> This is on jaunty with mythtv-backend version 0.21.0+fixes19556-0ubuntu6
>
> ** Affects: mythtv (Ubuntu)
>     Importance: Undecided
>         Status: New
>
> ** Description changed:
>
>  Binary package hint: mythtv-backend
>
>  I've been having some difficulty with the filesystem I'm using for
>  /home.  This means that that filesystem has occasionally failed to
>  mount.  This is annoying, but it interacts with /etc/init.d/mythtv-
>  backend in a bad way too...
>
>  If /home doesn't mount, the mythtv-backend startup script runs anyway.
>  And that startup script, on line 51, does this:
>
>  mkdir -p $USER_HOME/.mythtv
>
>  which, because of the -p option, creates files in /home even if
>  $USER_HOME doesn't exist (because the mount failed).
>
>  This causes all future attempts to mount /home to fail!  (until the
>  newly created files are removed.)
>
>  Might I suggest that the '-p' option here be removed.  If $USER_HOME
>  exists, this will still create the .mythtv directory, but if /home isn't
>  mounted then nothing bogus will be created.
> +
> + This is on jaunty with mythtv-backend version 0.21.0+fixes19556-0ubuntu6
>
> --
> MythTV creates files in /home even if mount /home fails
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326702
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>


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