FreeBSD issues i.c.m. Firefly

[Anonymous]

Hello, i’ve installed the new firefly port on freebsd but i only experience problems 🙁
This is some info:

[root@nas /usr/home/bram]# pkg_version -v | grep firefly
firefly-1696_1 = up-to-date with port

[root@nas /usr/local/var/cache/mt-daapd]# uname -a
FreeBSD nas.telenet.be 7.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Sat Nov 15 12:48:01 CET 2008 :/data/usr/obj/data/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

Server hardware:

4 x 500GB Samsung Spinpoint T166 with ZFS filesystem (for my data + music for firefly)
AMD 3800+
1GB DDR2 @ 666MHz
CF-card for booting the OS ( this is where the port is installed)
Intel Gigabit PRO nic

But the hardware hasn’t been a problem in the past so this would really surprise me that this is hardware related 😛

Client devices:

Vista Business 64 bit with Itunes
XP Pro with itunes
Ubuntu 8.10 64bit and 32 bit with Banshee and Rhythmbox

Connections:
Wireless and Ethernet

Log’s:
This is my log file for a small library and a fresh database:
http://pastebin.com/m734ba8b5
I did this because if i haven’t got a new database it said:

2009-01-03 19:26:45 (db3f1ccf): Initializing database

2009-01-03 19:26:45 (db3f1ccf): Executing: select count(*) FROM songs

2009-01-03 19:26:45 (db3f1ccf): Executing: select value from config where term='rescan'

2009-01-03 19:26:45 (db3f1ccf): Executing: vacuum

2009-01-03 19:27:51 (db3f1ccf): Rows: 0

2009-01-03 19:27:51 (db3f1ccf): Executing: create index idx_path on songs(path,idx)

2009-01-03 19:27:51 (db3f1ccf): Query: create index idx_path on songs(path,idx)

2009-01-03 19:27:51 (db3f1ccf): Error: index idx_path already exists

2009-01-03 19:27:51 (db3f1ccf): Executing: create index idx_songid on playlistitems(songid)

2009-01-03 19:27:51 (db3f1ccf): Query: create index idx_songid on playlistitems(songid)

2009-01-03 19:27:51 (db3f1ccf): Error: index idx_songid already exists

2009-01-03 19:27:51 (db3f1ccf): Executing: create index idx_playlistid on playlistitems(playlistid,songid)

2009-01-03 19:27:51 (db3f1ccf): Query: create index idx_playlistid on playlistitems(playlistid,songid)

2009-01-03 19:27:51 (db3f1ccf): Error: index idx_playlistid already exists

2009-01-03 19:27:51 (db3f1ccf): Executing: select count(*) FROM songs

But apparently that’s normal?

config file:
http://pastebin.com/m60b7eee0

Now what’s the problem exactly?
Well, when i start the deamon everything looks fine in the log (?) so i go on the web page of the deamon. That i can read this:

Service  	Status  	Control

Bonjour 	Stopped

Firefly Media Server 	Running

File scanner 	Idle





Plugin	Version

ssc-script	svn-1696

rsp	svn-1696

daap	svn-1696



Uptime 	58 minutes, 2 seconds

Songs 	58

Songs Served 	0

DB Version 	2



Client IP 	Action

192.168.0.2	Serving xml-rpc method

So he doesn’t serve songs he saids, while in the logs there is this:
2009-01-05 19:00:59 (db3f1ccf): Serving 58 songs. Startup complete in 7 seconds
That’s already very weird. Also not one single client can see the daap share. While when trying the deamon for windows all client detect the daap share without a problem, so my network isn’t the problem.
Are there any thoughts? I’m really desperate 🙁

[Anonymous]

really nobody who has an idea?

[stretch]

I’m no expert but I suspect it’s an mDNS problem.

Are you using avahi / howl / something else?
What ever you’re using, check the settings, check that it’s working & not conflicting with something else.

[Anonymous]

These ports are installed on my system:

[root@nas /usr/home/bram]# pkg_version -v

ataidle-2.4                         =   up-to-date with port

autoconf-2.62                       =   up-to-date with port

autoconf-wrapper-20071109           =   up-to-date with port

automake-1.9.6_3                    =   up-to-date with port

automake-wrapper-20071109           =   up-to-date with port

bash-3.2.39_1                       =   up-to-date with port

bigreqsproto-1.0.2                  =   up-to-date with port

cups-base-1.3.8_1                   <   needs updating (port has 1.3.9_2)

curl-7.18.0                         =   up-to-date with port

db41-4.1.25_4                       =   up-to-date with port

dbus-1.2.1                          =   up-to-date with port

dbus-glib-0.76                      =   up-to-date with port

expat-2.0.1                         =   up-to-date with port

firefly-1696_1                      =   up-to-date with port

flac-1.2.1                          =   up-to-date with port

gamin-0.1.9_2                       =   up-to-date with port

gdbm-1.8.3_3                        =   up-to-date with port

gettext-0.17_1                      =   up-to-date with port

gio-fam-backend-2.16.5              =   up-to-date with port

glib-2.16.5                         <   needs updating (port has 2.16.5_1)

gmake-3.81_3                        =   up-to-date with port

gnome_subr-1.0                      =   up-to-date with port

gnutls-2.4.1_1                      <   needs updating (port has 2.4.2_1)

help2man-1.36.4_2                   =   up-to-date with port

inputproto-1.4.2.1                  =   up-to-date with port

intltool-0.37.1                     =   up-to-date with port

jpeg-6b_7                           =   up-to-date with port

kbproto-1.0.3                       =   up-to-date with port

libX11-1.1.3_1,1                    =   up-to-date with port

libXau-1.0.3_2                      =   up-to-date with port

libXdmcp-1.0.2_1                    =   up-to-date with port

libao-0.8.8_1                       =   up-to-date with port

libdaemon-0.12                      =   up-to-date with port

libexecinfo-1.1_2                   <   needs updating (port has 1.1_3)

libgcrypt-1.4.1_1                   =   up-to-date with port

libgpg-error-1.6_1                  =   up-to-date with port

libiconv-1.11_1                     =   up-to-date with port

libid3tag-0.15.1b                   =   up-to-date with port

libogg-1.1.3,4                      =   up-to-date with port

libtool-1.5.26                      =   up-to-date with port

libvorbis-1.2.0_2,3                 =   up-to-date with port

libxml2-2.6.32                      <   needs updating (port has 2.6.32_2)

m4-1.4.11,1                         =   up-to-date with port

openldap-client-2.3.43              =   up-to-date with port

p5-XML-Parser-2.36                  =   up-to-date with port

p5-gettext-1.05_2                   =   up-to-date with port

pcre-7.7_1                          <   needs updating (port has 7.8)

perl-5.8.8_1                        =   up-to-date with port

pkg-config-0.23_1                   =   up-to-date with port

png-1.2.31                          <   needs updating (port has 1.2.33)

popt-1.7_5                          =   up-to-date with port

portupgrade-2.4.6,2                 =   up-to-date with port

python25-2.5.2_3                    =   up-to-date with port

ruby-1.8.6.287,1                    =   up-to-date with port

ruby18-bdb-0.6.4                    =   up-to-date with port

samba-3.0.32_1,1                    <   needs updating (port has 3.0.32_2,1)

screen-4.0.3_5                      =   up-to-date with port

smartmontools-5.38                  <   needs updating (port has 5.38_2)

speex-1.2.r1_1,1                    =   up-to-date with port

sqlite3-3.6.4                       =   up-to-date with port

tiff-3.8.2_1                        <   needs updating (port has 3.8.2_2)

transmission-daemon-1.33            <   needs updating (port has 1.42)

transmission-web-1.33               <   needs updating (port has 1.42)

vorbis-tools-1.2.0_3,3              =   up-to-date with port

xcmiscproto-1.1.2                   =   up-to-date with port

xextproto-7.0.2                     =   up-to-date with port

xf86bigfontproto-1.1.2              =   up-to-date with port

xproto-7.0.10_1                     =   up-to-date with port

xtrans-1.0.4                        =   up-to-date with port

as you can see no howl/avahi is on it…The only extra port i’ve installed is transmission, but i don’t see why that would conflict with something else…
are there any more things i can do to check were the problem is?

[peter_ljung]

Topic on installation on OpenBSD might help …
http://forum.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7802&start=0#p20206
Howl is used in this configuration.

[Anonymous]

There is allmost certainly nothing wrong with the Firefly installation.

There is however a bug in the em driver ( the driver used for the Intel NIC’s ) in version 7.0 of Freebsd. Which causes corruption of UDP packets ( used by Bonjour/mDNS ) if checksum offloading is enabled ( this is the default ).

Solution is to disable checksum offloading for your network interface.

To disable checksum offloading type the following command :

ifconfig em0 -rxcsum -txcsum

as root

To disable checksum offloading on the next reboot add -rxcsum -txcsum to the ifconfig_em0 line in /etc/rc.conf

I had the same problem when I updated my server form version 6.3 to 7.0.

You can also update to version 7.1 which doesn’t have this bug

[Anonymous]

HansS, you’re my hero!
I would never have figured this out myself…
thank you very much! Now my server is working :)??finally.

[Anonymous]

@HansS wrote:

There is allmost certainly nothing wrong with the Firefly installation.

There is however a bug in the em driver ( the driver used for the Intel NIC’s ) in version 7.0 of Freebsd. Which causes corruption of UDP packets ( used by Bonjour/mDNS ) if checksum offloading is enabled ( this is the default ).

Solution is to disable checksum offloading for your network interface.

To disable checksum offloading type the following command :

ifconfig em0 -rxcsum -txcsum

as root

To disable checksum offloading on the next reboot add -rxcsum -txcsum to the ifconfig_em0 line in /etc/rc.conf

I had the same problem when I updated my server form version 6.3 to 7.0.

You can also update to version 7.1 which doesn’t have this bug

It seems the em driver in FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE has the same or similar problems. My firefly-svn-1696 fails miserably due to unknown (network) reasons.
Having disabled checksum offloading things seem to work properly. See how long this lasts 8)

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