NSLU2 with Unslung 6.10 not starting Firefly

[Anonymous]

Hi all,
I combed the forum for an hour and didn’t get an answer for my issue, so here goes…
I just installed Unslung 6.10 on my NSLU2. Went on OK.
6.10 running on my USB key in the Disk 2 slot. EXT3 Formatted.
Formatted a 200gb drive in Disk 1 slot. EXT3. Completely empty except for one MP3 file in a folder called “MP3”.
When I install firefly via “ipkg install mt-daapd”, it seems to go fine.
When I try to start Firefly by typing “/opt/etc/init.d/S60mt-daapd” I get this error.

# /opt/etc/init.d/S60mt-daapd
Bad mp3 directory (/share/hdd/data/public/mp3): No such file or directory
Error reading config file (/opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf)
#

I can see that it wants the data to be on the HDD instead of the “Flash” directory where it should be as described in the wiki:

If you unslung to a single disk drive following the instructions above (i.e. in port 1) then the directory containing your data will be /share/hdd/data/mp3. Stick: If you’ve been following the memory stick route then the hard drive directory containing your music will be /share/flash/data/mp3. Do not be confused by the appearance of the word ‘flash’ in the path. The linksys firmware underlying Unslung simply refers to the data partition of any device attached to USB port 2 as /share/flash/mp3. If you’re interested this is explained in more detail in the “Which USB Port for Unslung6” article. Look at the section on dual native devices.

How do I edit the file so it goes to the right place? I know almost nothing about Unix but did figure out telnet/etc. today. 🙂 Any help would be really appreciated. I’m using a MAc but can boot into XP on it if that helps. Thanks! -Dan

[sonichouse]

Hi Dan, welcome on board.

There are a few things we can try…

1.) check the disks are mapped correctly

df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

rootfs                1.7G  700M  968M  42% /

/dev/root             6.4M  6.2M  184K  98% /initrd

/dev/sda1             1.7G  700M  968M  42% /

/dev/sda1             1.7G  700M  968M  42% /share/flash/data

/dev/sdb1             230G   27G  200G  12% /share/hdd/data

/dev/sdb2             114M  4.1M  109M   4% /share/hdd/conf

/dev/sdb2             114M  4.1M  109M   4% /share/flash/conf

I have my external disk as /share/hdd/data.

2) Check for files

ls -l /share/hdd/data/public

drwxrwxrwx  8 root  root       4096 Feb 24 16:15 mp3

Do you see your mp3 directory ?

Are the file permissions set correctly ?

3) Check your mt-daapd.conf for the path of the share

If you need to edit to the conf file and are not confident using vi try installing nano with

ipkg install nano

/Steve

[Anonymous]

I found this post:

http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?=&p=10549

which seems to share the same issue? Again, if you could please help me understand how do I find and edit the .conf file, I would be super thankful.

Thanks!
Dan

[sonichouse]

@dansulvn wrote:

I found this post:

http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?=&p=10549

which seems to share the same issue? Again, if you could please help me understand how do I find and edit the .conf file, I would be super thankful.

Thanks!
Dan

Install the nano editor as per the instructions in that post.

[Anonymous]

@sonichouse wrote:

Hi Dan, welcome on board.

There are a few things we can try…

1.) check the disks are mapped correctly

df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

rootfs                1.7G  700M  968M  42% /

/dev/root             6.4M  6.2M  184K  98% /initrd

/dev/sda1             1.7G  700M  968M  42% /

/dev/sda1             1.7G  700M  968M  42% /share/flash/data

/dev/sdb1             230G   27G  200G  12% /share/hdd/data

/dev/sdb2             114M  4.1M  109M   4% /share/hdd/conf

/dev/sdb2             114M  4.1M  109M   4% /share/flash/conf

I have my external disk as /share/hdd/data.

2) Check for files

ls -l /share/hdd/data/public

drwxrwxrwx  8 root  root       4096 Feb 24 16:15 mp3

Do you see your mp3 directory ?

Are the file permissions set correctly ?

3) Check your mt-daapd.conf for the path of the share

If you need to edit to the conf file and are not confident using vi try installing nano with

ipkg install nano

/Steve

Steve, thanks for the quick reply!
This is what comes up:

# df -h

Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda1                 1.7G     53.6M      1.6G   3% /

/dev/mtdblock4            6.4M      6.1M    324.0k  95% /initrd

/dev/sda1                 1.7G     53.6M      1.6G   3% /share/flash/data

/dev/sda2               120.1M      4.0M    114.8M   3% /share/flash/conf

/dev/sdb1               183.2G     95.2M    181.2G   0% /share/hdd/data

/dev/sdb2               106.3M      4.1M    101.1M   4% /share/hdd/conf

# ls -l /share/hdd/data/public

drwxrwxr-x    3 admin    everyone     4096 Feb 27 15:58 MP3

So share/hdd/data is where the MP3 files should go. Do my permissions look right? If not, how do I change them? Thanks so much! -Dan[/code]

[sonichouse]

Ok, so you have the right disk, and permissions look OK.

We need to check your config file. try

 grep mp3_dir /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

# mp3_dir (required)

mp3_dir = /share/hdd/data/public/mp3

note that the path is case sensitive so yours should be

mp3_dir = /share/hdd/data/public/MP3

[Anonymous]

Here’s what I get:

# grep mp3_dir /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

# mp3_dir (required)

mp3_dir         /share/hdd/data/public/mp3

“MP3” is I folder I created from my Mac while Disk 1 was a mounted volume after the fact once I was getting no love from Firefly. Looking at the volume via SMB on my mac shows no “mp3” folder,or any other folder than the “MP3” one I created.

Sorry. Nano is installed, but I can’t seem to start it or know how to make changes in the config file if needed.

Thanks,
Dan

[sonichouse]

you should type

nano /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

if that fails what error do you get ?

try

/opt/bin/nano /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

[Anonymous]

# ipkg install nano

Package nano (2.0.7-1) installed in root is up to date.

Nothing to be done

# nano /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

-sh: nano: not found

# /opt/bin/nano /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

Error opening terminal: unknown.

# 

Bummer, eh?

[Anonymous]

so based on the error, I entered the following to make a mp3 folder

# mkdir /share/hdd/data/public/mp3

and now it works.

Steve, you’re a saint for helping me. I have no idea why it went this way… thanks for your help!!!

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