like to me is the classic, "when i try to build a
new kernel, gcc segfaults!" problem, which isn't gcc or linux at all:
it's almost always a bad memory simm.
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If you can get a wired connection to the PC, I would recommend that,
though. Less bandwidth on the air, and a lot less hassle and more
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machine or is it USB or NAS? Could the drive I/O bandwith be the issue?
(I don't know how SMB will behave if smbd is slow/non-responsive... it
may be locking up on the machine, too, which is why permissions seem
odd temporarily... the solution would be to figure out what the heck
it
t sounds like the Maxtor is running out of some 'resource' (file
locks, memory, something) and is just not serving the files.
SlimServer itself, except when scanning, doesn't do a whole lot of disk
IO. It's not hard to open a file, read it in, and sen
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apt-get install make
assuming it's at all like debian.
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softsqueeze at work. :))
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2's give you a bit better perfomance than the default, the
timeo should give you better response on a busy file server (it gives
up less quickly) and the intr lets you interrupt a request.. normally
you can't interrupt it until it's done which can lead to annoying
tandards.)
The only odd thing: it doesn't match either address listed for your
bridge. It should.
>
> Any problems you can see with this setup?
>
It should work fine (except why is the bridge MAC not matching what's
on the box?).
If it's not working, are you sure you d
e neither the MAC of the SB or the ones that
the bridge claims to have really seems odd.
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ing files: it can't on my machine since it doesn't
have permissions.
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uldn't own web pages with Apache.)
The playlists permissions are the same as /tmp -- this lets me move a
playlist there if I want, or have the server write one.
A group could also be done for the same effect, allowing the server to
modify my own lists. I don't use playlists enough to
yes, it supplies /etc/init.d/slimserver
It works fine (well, as fine as nightlys go, depends which night,
though usually that's not a prob :)) for me.
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ually use this in lookups. It uses /etc/hosts and DNS.
(It may be possible to convince it to, never bothered trying tho.)
Your browser is confusing the issue: when it can't figure out what you
typed in for a URL, it goes to google or some other search engine and
does a '
you have a firewall turned on that is blocking port 9000 and 3483?
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;etc/init.d/slimserver restart' if you need to restart it.
It's a bit more polite.
>
> Also, any idea why "service slimserver start" and "service slimserver
> stop" don't work? I get bash: ser
Well the deb installs it in /etc/init.d ... Perhaps that's on your path?
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eperators in artists, and especially disc
numbers...)
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boerner Wrote:
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> Now if only I could stop clicking the refresh button on UPSs tracking
> page for my Squeezebox...
>
It will only get worse.
I just ordered 4 more cd's...
And it's only Mon
o one notices my bandwidth sucking.
("I'm monitoring network connectivity by streaming music from home"
actually does work as an excuse... but I think I'd get yelled at for
maintaining 1Mbps. :))
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the deb of 6.5 puts it in /var/log/slimserver/
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ow up in the location bar, you can handle the redirect
with an http redirect. "Any attempt to access the host foo.blah gets a
redirect to http://foo.blah:9000/";
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deb http://debian.slimdevices.com/ stable main
To your sources.
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me (user 'bem'), but everything is
world-readable, so the server can get to it.
This is pretty much the same way that Apache is set up: except it runs
as www-data, but the web pages need to be world-readable, too.
I don't know how RH structures things so I can only
Samba to make
everything new have these permissions, so you won't have to think about
it later. Look in the [homes] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf .. set
create and directory masks there to 755: that will drop force new items
to be created like above: read/write/ex
n't really matter since there is no valid
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Nope, mine doesn't have a valid shell.
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My problem with hardware raid is that it isn't portable: if your card
dies, you are simply out of luck unless you can get the same card.
With software raid in Linux, as long as you keep around a 'rescue disk'
you're good to go even if you swap motherboards aroun
s a single
ext3 filesystem on Linux, you can share it to a Windows machine with
SMB -- SMB will hide the differences in actual file structure.
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I believe there is something for Windows that will read ext2 discs.
No idea how well it works though.
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on the path have the last component
stripped?
2) Plugins not prepending "Plugins/" to their name when loking for
them?
3) . being set to /usr/share/slimserver/Plugins?
I believe it is the second case, but not sure
nner,
so for a bit there I had two of them running. I killed the oldest one
because I didn't like it. Which probably means I'll have to scan
again... oh well. :)
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only annoying because it takes s long on this system. That should
be fixed tomorrow, though, so I'm not that concerned.
Is there a way to disable the scanner from doing a wipe when I restart
the server or is it not supposed to do that every time?
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f SlimServer-whatever.tgz
cd Slimserver-Whatever
./slimserver.pl
I usually ran it under screen to see the logs. I didn't worry about
init scripts since I rarely reboot anyway.
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your limits are set too low.
I have no idea where this is set on Mandriva.
/etc/security/limits.conf, perhaps?
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Well you shouldn't have to increase physical memory yet since you're not
even entering swap.
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with just a few lines
of perl.
You may need to massage the @args a bit as well, but that shouldn't be
too hard, especially if you cheat and make convert.conf pass the args
you want in the order you want.
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a slow machine :P) the split-scanner code was much much nicer for
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2/400... I finally
shelled out 200 bucks and got a cheapo Dell. (With FreeDOS! Now I can
use DOSEMU... if I had any DOS programs I cared about...) Much nicer.
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hat was wrong with the
tags before.
I did notice the oddity with playing from the Album level on Browse
Music Folder... but I cheated and just changed my server settings to
Play every track in the folder: it is usually what I want anyway.
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ld be fixed
when Dan gets a chance to make it pretty, but it's easy enough to do it
the ugly way. :)
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om bugzilla that Dan fixed this the Right Way so
tonight's build should have a fix, too if you don't want to deal with
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> In the absence of an ID3v2.4 footer editor, I'm stuck with ID3v1.1.
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eyeD3 is a command line tool that does id3v2.4
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assuming it's like debian:
apt-get install gcc
You have no C compiler installed on your system.
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, which would
sound more like what you're hearing.
Do you have flac installed? That should help immensely, without
changes to convert.conf.
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ion should be there already.
Again, this works, out of the box, on SB2 and SB3... assuming you have
FLAC installed and don't limit your bitrate.
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No, Slimp3 doesn't do FLAC. Only SB2/3 do. You could try uncommenting
the "ogg wav" section and see if that helps, I would guess the slimp3
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If you're using the 6.5b1 deb, the preference file is in
/etc/slimserver/
As for why you are getting an invalid directory, what does 'ls -l
/media/LACIE/Media/Music' say? Are you sure that directory is correct
and readable by the user 'slimserver
Yes, the slimdevices debian repository contains the nightly builds of
6.5b1. It doesn't (yet) have a 'stable' version, so you will see this
until 6.5 becomes stable.
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ant to mail you to work.
You may want to figure out why your passwd file is missing entries or
nullmailer will probably complain too.
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put them at some place like:
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/
Oh, wait, they did.
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Did you install ssh? By default, it is not installed.
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tigrou;165711 Wrote:
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> /bin/sh: cc: command not found
>
You are missing a C Compiler. You will need to install gcc (no idea
how to do that on SuSE, though).
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everything in the jail.
I hope I am misinterpretting and you are running SMB in a jail and not
slimserver... Slimserver in a jail would hurt my brain.
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Make sure your netmask and network settings are the same on the SB's.
Since you show your server has 192.168.0.5 for an IP, it should have
255.255.255.0 as a netmask.
The SB's should be on the same network (ie, start with 192.168.0) and
should also have the same netmask.
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.Is
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http://debian.slimdevices.com/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ with
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Some strange proxy in the way?
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Oh, and for your original problem: check firewall settings. Many linux
distributions turn on firewalls that break servers (like, well,
Slimserver).
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unless the
directory is huuuge.)
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My guess is that its related to why you are 'missing' music.
That would imply the scan aborted for some reason: do you have
playlists? Corrupt playlists (or playlists in the main directory) can
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the Plugin directory.
Just another layer of security that is good practice, especially for
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t use the official debian package.)
The Alien package isn't from a .deb, so perhaps when you installed that
you did it as the "slimserver" user instead of as root?
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ther question: what does the log say? Did something
else (mplayer?) get updated in the process?
I don't use AlienBBC so don't know what other dependencies it has.
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adavan;179760 Wrote:
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> No such file or directoyr bin/sh? Sounds strange to me, I'm gessing
> that's not really the error per se.
>
> Anyone have a clue? Thanks in advance!
What does "ls -l /
Mine are owned by me, readable by slimserver. So 755 for directories
(owned by me), and 644 for files.
Playlist directory is 1777, just like /tmp: allowing anyone to write
there, but only the owner of the file can delete it.
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just install a switch and make their lives easier. A switch costs $20,
not that much more than a NIC.
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rotate.pl isn't part of Slimserver.
from a google for "redhat rotate.pl", it sounds like it is in Webmin.
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I use debian testing...
and it works great.
I didnt used to think I would use the .deb, but now I upgrade when I am
bored.
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Look at /etc/fstab ... You should add something like:
/dev/sdb1 /media/sdb ext3defaults0 2
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ange /etc/slimserver and anything below it to be owned by
slimserver.
If you don't have /etc/slimserver, try "locate slimserver.pref" and see
where it is hiding. It may be in some weird place which would require a
di
r and hand permissions off on that directory to
the slimserver user. Then slimserver can write to
/etc/slimserver/slimserver.pref, but not /etc/passwd.
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t and using
the external as the backup drive.
If they are both external, then just plug one in periodically for
backups, then take it offline and turn it off and hide it at work or
somewhere safe.
Did I mention I <3 using USB drives as backups?
(lsof will give what I think is more readable output but fuser should
suffice. Note the lsof parameter is colon-9000, the colon matters.)
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Ah just noticed this:
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> Tried to install slimserver via the Universe repositories in ubuntu
>
You would probably have better luck downloading it from Slim directly.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?DebianPackage
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Slimserver failed to connect toits own MySQL instance... Which is
probably related to the migration comment above. Did you configure a
prior version of SlimServer to use MySQL?
The last part looks like it was able to b
open files").
lsof will show you what files are open. I see no sign of a leak.
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Are you sure it is not /tmp filling up?
If /tmp gets full, you can have serious problems... and it will be
wiped clean on reboot, so you won't see anything there to explain just
what it was that got full.
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not likely to be the problem.
The SB has no mechanism to log to the server.
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, nor this one".
Ah, yes, and with some versions of MySQL, joins and unions can make
temporary files in /tmp. (I saw this a loong time ago with
SQLPlaylist... MySQL tried to optimize a query and would expand a query
into literally millions of queries and
ging that (they still show up in dmesg),
it behaved much better and hasnt crashed in months.
So, yes, filling up /tmp will kill things.
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the tmpfile is automatically freed up, just as RAM from a process
exiting is. The disadvantage is figuring out "what the heck, i have a
10G partition, du says I should have 2G free, but df says it is
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When you can go without music for a while, grab a copy of memtest86,
put it on a floppy (um, or a CD.. depending on vintage of machine),
boot from it, and let it run and test memory for a few hours.
(The BIOS memory "test" isn't much of a test at all.)
Today
My current router is actually a 2.5Ghz Celeron desktop... the Belkin
has been made into an Access Point only, and it works much much better.
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Y of ID3v1 tags in my library, so I must be blanking.
All sorts of things can do that on Linux:
eyeD3 --remove-v1 *.mp3
id3v2 --delete-v1 *.mp3
(or the little checkbox in Musicbrainz Picard).
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may be the features demand an upgrade.
Then you can move the SB1G into another room and expand your choices in
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/bin/false or whatever as shell).
That should be a 'real' slimserv-user shell and make Perl forget about
all the suid-perl restrictions. (I thought FreeBSD didnt need those,
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You may see them in other init scripts, but googling for 'bsd init
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Also make the script executable if you have not.
"chmod +x flac2mp3.pl" will do that.
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ting playlists). So
what I do:
chown -R me ~/music
find ~/music -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find ~/music -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
The playlist directory is:
chmod 1777 ~/playlists
That lets anyone write there, but only the owner can mod
ermissions on each file so that I
can rwx them, but group and other can only read (and x directories). If
the files/directories are owned by you, this shouldn't create any
problems, it should just tidy up permissions.
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the same and you would need to have \\\0 or
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