On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 8:51 PM, Bob Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > My system is openSUSE Leap 42.3, and I am using the version of minidlna from > the packman repository. > > For some time I have been successfully running a minidlna server which > streams music to a Bose Soundtouch device over WiFi. However, it stopped > working a few weeks ago, and the SoundTouch device could only find an empty > folder. > > After several re-writes of /etc/minidlna.conf without success, and searching > for other versions of minidlna.conf in non-default locations, I finally > tracked the culprit down to /usr/lib/systemd/system/minidlna.service which > contained the following: > > [Unit] > Description=MiniDLNA UPnP-A/V and DLNA media server > After=var-run.mount nss-lookup.target network.target remote-fs.target > > [Service] > Type=forking > PIDFile=/var/run/minidlnad.pid > ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/minidlnaconfig > EnvironmentFile=-/var/lib/minidlna/rescan.conf > ExecStart=/usr/sbin/minidlnad $RESCAN -P /var/run/minidlnad.pid -f > /var/lib/minidlna/minidlna.conf [0] > > [Install] > WantedBy=multi-user.target > > So the unit file was forcing minidlna to use the configuration file in > /var/lib/minidlna/minidlna.conf rather than the default /etc/minidlna.conf! > /var/lib/minidlna/minidlna.conf pointed to media_dir=/mnt and was recreated > at start-up, so even editing the media_dir= line didn't work. Changing the > last line in the [Service] stanza to include "-f /etc/minidlna.conf" got > things working again - and just in time for Christmas. ;-) > > I have no idea how this got changed, but I wonder if anyone else has come > across anything similar?
Works here without issues on 2 computers. /var/lib/minidlna/minidlna.conf is used since we read /etc/minidlna.conf on startup and create our own version in /var/lib/minidlna. Tha's what the minidlnaconfig script does Nothing has changed in this configuration for the past few updates. The last update was just adding a SuSEfirewall2 file. Nothing else was touched > > Bob > > -- > Bob Williams > System: Linux 4.4.103-36-default > Distro: openSUSE 42.3 (x86_64) > Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.32.0, Qt: 5.6.2 and Plasma: 5.8.7 > > _______________________________________________ > Packman mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman -- Yours truly _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
