sendProfile.py doesn't generate a uuid when the directory HardwareProfile is missing

[dekarl@…]

just noticed this on a Mythbuntu frontend

user@myth-fe1:~$ /usr/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/sendProfile.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/sendProfile.py", line 420, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/sendProfile.py", line 403, in main
    profile = read_profile(gate, smolt.read_uuid())
  File "/usr/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/smolt.py", line 1271, in read_uuid
    raise UUIDError, 'Unable to save UUID to %s.  Please run once as root.' % hw_uuid_file
smolt.UUIDError: Unable to save UUID to /home/user/.mythtv/HardwareProfile/hw-uuid.  Please run once as root.
main()
  File "/usr/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/sendProfile.py", line 403, in main
    profile = read_profile(gate, smolt.read_uuid())
  File "/usr/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/smolt.py", line 1271, in read_uuid
    raise UUIDError, 'Unable to save UUID to %s.  Please run once as root.' % hw_uuid_file
smolt.UUIDError: Unable to save UUID to /home/user/.mythtv/HardwareProfile/hw-uuid.  Please run once as root.

looking at ~/.mythtv the permissions are there but no directory "HardwareProfile?"

drwxrwuser@myth-fe1:~$ ls -la ~/.mythtv/
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 11 user user  240 Aug 31 10:44 .

manually creating that directory "fixed" it

user@myth-fe1:~$ mkdir .mythtv/HardwareProfile
user@myth-fe1:~$ /usr/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/sendProfile.py
Processing MythTV Data
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Smolt has collected four types of information:

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In 10be7341345986d4c0e508c0a9791d35dca43770/mythtv:

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[Raymond Wagner <rwagner@…>]

In 7cb39410374153a685fc70376637e889684a0e9a/mythtv:

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