I changed the ownership of the dir (recursively) to mythtv:mythtv - now after having run the setup as prompted the error has gone away.
-- mythtv-frontend not detecting previous runs of mythsetup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145714 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs