Cannot connect to set up – FireFly Media Server

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17/09/2006 at 2:02 PM #592

KeithO

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I’m trying to set up a Firefly media server. my system is already a working LAMP server with Ubuntu Breezy up to date. I went through the steps i found here however when I go to http://localhost:3689, I get an “unable to make connection” error. I looked in my active services and do not see the daemon listed on there.

Any ideas?

17/09/2006 at 11:38 PM #6435

rpedde

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@KeithO wrote:

I’m trying to set up a Firefly media server. my system is already a working LAMP server with Ubuntu Breezy up to date. I went through the steps i found here however when I go to http://localhost:3689, I get an “unable to make connection” error. I looked in my active services and do not see the daemon listed on there.

Any ideas?

You can run



/usr/sbin/mt-daapd -d9 -f -y -c /etc/mt-daapd.conf

and it will churn out a bunch of stuff, including why it didn’t start. That will probably give you a place to start.

— Ron

18/09/2006 at 1:01 AM #6436

KeithO

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Read web_root: /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root
Read port: 3689
Read admin_pw: mt-daapd
Read db_dir: /var/cache/mt-daapd
Read mp3_dir: /storage/Music
Read servername: My Music
Read runas: nobody
Read playlist: /etc/mt-daapd.playlist
Read extensions: .mp3,.m4a,.m4p
Read rescan_interval: 3600
Checking existence of /storage/Music
Checking existence of /var/cache/mt-daapd
Starting rendezvous daemon
Could not open songs database (/var/cache/mt-daapd/songs.gdb): Permission deniedAborting

i tried chmod’ing the file and the folder and get a ‘no such file or folder’ error.

18/09/2006 at 2:16 AM #6437

rpedde

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@KeithO wrote:

Could not open songs database (/var/cache/mt-daapd/songs.gdb):

rm -rf /var/cache/mt-daapd
mkdir -p /var/cache/mt-daapd
chmod 777 /var/cache/mt-daapd

that should do it. You can use less permissions permissions, but you’ll have to see what user the daemon is running as and set the permissions accordingly.

— Ron

18/09/2006 at 3:01 AM #6438

KeithO

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same thing happens. restarted the daemon too.

Read web_root: /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root
Read port: 3689
Read admin_pw: mt-daapd
Read db_dir: /var/cache/mt-daapd
Read mp3_dir: /storage/Music
Read servername: My Music
Read runas: nobody
Read playlist: /etc/mt-daapd.playlist
Read extensions: .mp3,.m4a,.m4p
Read rescan_interval: 3600
Checking existence of /storage/Music
Checking existence of /var/cache/mt-daapd
Starting rendezvous daemon
Could not open songs database (/var/cache/mt-daapd/songs.gdb): Permission denied
Aborting

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18/09/2006 at 3:49 AM #6439

rpedde

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@KeithO wrote:

same thing happens. restarted the daemon too.

what if you:



strace /usr/sbin/mt-daapd -d9 -f -y -c /etc/mt-daapd.conf

— Ron

18/09/2006 at 10:29 PM #6440

KeithO

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wow. never seen this command before. here’s the output.

execve("/usr/sbin/mt-daapd", ["/usr/sbin/mt-daapd", "-d9", "-f", "-y", "-c", "/etc/mt-daapd.conf"], [/* 30 vars */]) = 0

uname({sys="Linux", node="keith-desktop", ...}) = 0

brk(0)                                  = 0x808d000

old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f09000

access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f08000

access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f07000

open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=62030, ...}) = 0

old_mmap(NULL, 62030, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ef7000

close(3)                                = 0

access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3

read(3, "177ELF111331`H00"..., 512) = 512fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=86580, ...}) = 0

old_mmap(NULL, 71064, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ee5000

old_mmap(0xb7ef4000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xe000) = 0xb7ef4000

old_mmap(0xb7ef5000, 5528, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7ef5000

close(3)                                = 0

access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3

read(3, "177ELF1113312021"..., 512) = 512fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=19332, ...}) = 0

old_mmap(NULL, 22412, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7edf000

old_mmap(0xb7ee4000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x4000) = 0xb7ee4000

close(3)                                = 0

access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/lib/libid3tag.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3

read(3, "177ELF111331340;"..., 512) = 512

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=58684, ...}) = 0

old_mmap(NULL, 61644, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ecf000

old_mmap(0xb7edd000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xd000) = 0xb7edd000

close(3)                                = 0

access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY)    = 3

read(3, "177ELF111331`2600"..., 512) = 512

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=77368, ...}) = 0

old_mmap(NULL, 80324, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ebb000

old_mmap(0xb7ece000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x12000) = 0xb7ece000

close(3)                                = 0

access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3

read(3, "177ELF111331220O1"..., 512) = 512

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1232784, ...}) = 0

old_mmap(NULL, 1238972, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7d8c000

old_mmap(0xb7eb1000, 28672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x125000) = 0xb7eb1000

old_mmap(0xb7eb8000, 10172, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7eb8000

close(3)                                = 0

old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7d8b000

old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7d8a000

set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7d8a6c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0

munmap(0xb7ef7000, 62030)               = 0

set_tid_address(0xb7d8a708)             = 5637

rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0xb7ee93b0, [], SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0

rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0xb7ee9430, [], SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0

rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0

getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0

_sysctl({{CTL_KERN, KERN_VERSION, 0, 208e9, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, 2, 0xbfe1d2cc, 42, (nil), 0}) = 0

getuid32()                              = 1000

time(NULL)                              = 1158618499

brk(0)                                  = 0x808d000

brk(0x80ae000)                          = 0x80ae000

open("/etc/mt-daapd.conf", O_RDONLY)    = 3

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6556, ...}) = 0

mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f06000

read(3, "# $Id: mt-daapd.conf,v 1.15 2004"..., 4096) = 4096

write(2, "Read web_root: /usr/share/mt-daa"..., 46Read web_root: /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root

) = 46

write(2, "Read port: 3689n", 16Read port: 3689

)       = 16

write(2, "Read admin_pw: mt-daapdn", 24Read admin_pw: mt-daapd

) = 24

write(2, "Read db_dir: /var/cache/mt-daapd"..., 33Read db_dir: /var/cache/mt-daapd

) = 33

write(2, "Read mp3_dir: /storage/Musicn", 29Read mp3_dir: /storage/Music

) = 29

write(2, "Read servername: My Musicn", 26Read servername: My Music

) = 26

write(2, "Read runas: nobodyn", 19Read runas: nobody

)    = 19

write(2, "Read playlist: /etc/mt-daapd.pla"..., 38Read playlist: /etc/mt-daapd.playlist

) = 38

write(2, "Read extensions: .mp3,.m4a,.m4pn", 32Read extensions: .mp3,.m4a,.m4p

) = 32

read(3, "# Setting a rescan_interval lowe"..., 4096) = 2460

write(2, "Read rescan_interval: 3600n", 27Read rescan_interval: 3600

) = 27

read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0

close(3)                                = 0

munmap(0xb7f06000, 4096)                = 0

lstat64("/usr", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

lstat64("/usr/share", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0

lstat64("/usr/share/mt-daapd", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

lstat64("/usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

lstat64("/storage", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

lstat64("/storage/Music", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=36864, ...}) = 0

lstat64("/var", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

lstat64("/var/cache", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

lstat64("/var/cache/mt-daapd", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

open("/usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root/index.html", O_RDONLY) = 3

close(3)                                = 0

write(2, "Checking existence of /storage/M"..., 37Checking existence of /storage/Music

) = 37

stat64("/storage/Music", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=36864, ...}) = 0

write(2, "Checking existence of /var/cache"..., 42Checking existence of /var/cache/mt-daapd

) = 42

stat64("/var/cache/mt-daapd", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

write(2, "Starting rendezvous daemonn", 27Starting rendezvous daemon

) = 27

pipe([3, 4])                            = 0

pipe([5, 6])                            = 0

clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7d8a708) = 5638

close(3)                                = 0

close(6)                                = 0

futex(0x807a9c8, FUTEX_WAKE, 2147483647) = 0

open("/var/cache/mt-daapd/songs.gdb", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0600) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

write(2, "Could not open songs database (/"..., 81Could not open songs database (/var/cache/mt-daapd/songs.gdb): Permission denied

) = 81

write(2, "Abortingn", 9Aborting

)               = 9

exit_group(1)                           = ?

i appreciate you helping me with this.

19/09/2006 at 1:11 AM #6441

rpedde

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@KeithO wrote:

open(“/var/cache/mt-daapd/songs.gdb”, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0600) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
write(2, “Could not open songs database (/”…, 81Could not open songs database (/var/cache/mt-daapd/songs.gdb): Permission denied
) = 81
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i appreciate you helping me with this.

Hrm. That really does show access denied when trying to create that. You ran this as root, right?

Did that file already exist there? Can you touch a file in that directory? How strange.

Might be worth trying to rebuild the package from scratch. Do you have development tools on that machine?

19/09/2006 at 3:56 AM #6442

KeithO

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ok, i went in through terminal to the file and changed the permissions on it. i had been previously trying to change the permissions on the folder. i was able to log in to the web interface now.

thank you, i really do appreciate your help.

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