So, you’re creating a native archive with MythArchive. You’ve never run it before, so you just give it a go. It can’t write data files to the place the videos are at, so what is it’s failure mode? Well, how about trying to change permissions on every file on the machine? Lovely.
2006-10-13 22:32:23.025 Options - createiso: 0, doburn: 1, mediatype: 3, erasedvdrw: 0 2006-10-13 22:32:23.026 savedirectory: / 2006-10-13 22:32:23.026 Saving files to : / 2006-10-13 22:32:23.077 Archiving Christmas (/share/Movies/dvd/Christmas.avi), do delete: 1 2006-10-13 22:32:23.108 Creating xml file for Christmas 2006-10-13 22:32:23.170 Created videometadata element for Christmas 2006-10-13 22:32:23.204 MythNativeWizard: Failed to open file for writing - /Christmas/Christmas.avi.xml 2006-10-13 22:32:23.204 Archiving Easter (/share/Movies/dvd/Easter.avi), do delete: 1 2006-10-13 22:32:23.204 Creating xml file for Easter 2006-10-13 22:32:23.205 Created videometadata element for Easter 2006-10-13 22:32:23.206 MythNativeWizard: Failed to open file for writing - /Easter/Easter.avi.xml 2006-10-13 22:32:23.206 Archiving Thanksgiving (/share/Movies/dvd/Thanksgiving.avi), do delete: 1 2006-10-13 22:32:23.207 Creating xml file for Thanksgiving 2006-10-13 22:32:23.207 Created videometadata element for Thanksgiving 2006-10-13 22:32:23.208 MythNativeWizard: Failed to open file for writing - /Thanksgiving/Thanksgiving.avi.xml chmod: changing permissions of `/': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/lost+found': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/lock': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/lock/apache2': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/lock/evms-engine': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/lock/lvm': Operation not permitted chmod: `/var/lock/lvm': Permission denied chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/iptraf': Operation not permitted chmod: `/var/run/iptraf': Permission denied chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/dhclient.pid': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/sudo': Operation not permitted chmod: `/var/run/sudo': Permission denied chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/console': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/console/test:7': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/console/mikal:7': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/apache2.pid': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/apache2': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/apache2/cgisock': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/crond.reboot': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/crond.pid': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/atd.pid': Operation not permitted ...snip...