iTunes doesn’t see library

[fizze]

Awesome. So I guess someone packaged the wrong firefly binary.
mDNS shouldn’t be even compiled in for ubuntu.
Also, avahi support should work automagically.

Anyway, glad this is resolved. Might be important for future reference. 😉

[Anonymous]

OK, now I am at a total loss. The library was showing up in iTunes all day long but now it doesn’t show up anymore. Nothing changed on either the server or the client since it was working.

Here is the output from ps aux|grep avahi

1000 2463 0.0 0.0 2976 752 pts/1 R+ 07:12 0:00 grep avahi
avahi 18018 0.0 0.1 2732 1516 ? Ss Mar06 0:00 avahi-daemon: running [psanders1-Paul.local]
avahi 18019 0.0 0.0 2732 460 ? Ss Mar06 0:00 avahi-daemon: chroot helper

The output from browsing to the …/rsp/info page shows the same thing on both computers:

−
−
0

0
0

−
6653
1.0
svn-1586
Sanders Music

[fizze]

Do you use static IPs? DHCP release/renew could be the culprit here.

[Anonymous]

My router is using DHCP but none of the ip addresses have changed. I know almost nothing about DHCP, is there something else to it that could be causing the problem?

[fizze]

Dont use small DHCP timeouts, if you are on a mostly-static environment 😉

But the effects that you describe have been discussed and solved in this forum. IIRC, DHCP was the culprit in many cases. YYMV though.

[Anonymous]

I was having the same problem as the original poster and it was driving me mad.

I just fixed it, and for me it was a question of running:

sudo /etc/init.d/mt-daapd restart

I had tried restarting firefly numerous times and I’d rebooted the whole server too, but the crucial difference is that I did it as root

I’m not sure why when my server reboots the script isn’t run as root though, can anyone shed some light?

I’m running ubuntu
Thanks,

Lou

[Anonymous]

I tried to turn off DHCP and that didn’t work. I also tried running

sudo /etc/init.d/mt-daapd restart 

but that didn’t work for me either.

[vibrantstring]

I had a problem that looked like this — recently updated my Ubuntu “Hardy” machine, and iTunes on my mac mini wasn’t seeing the firefly share any longer.

What I did was go onto the Ubuntu machine, check to see if avahi-daemon was running:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon status

Saw that it wasn’t so started it:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start

Then restarted mt-daapd:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/mt-daapd restart

After doing this, the share showed up in iTunes.

[Anonymous]

@vibrantstring wrote:

I had a problem that looked like this — recently updated my Ubuntu “Hardy” machine, and iTunes on my mac mini wasn’t seeing the firefly share any longer.

What I did was go onto the Ubuntu machine, check to see if avahi-daemon was running:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon status

Saw that it wasn’t so started it:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start

Then restarted mt-daapd:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/mt-daapd restart

After doing this, the share showed up in iTunes.

I tried this also but no luck. I recently rebuilt the server box (because I was turning it into a pure server with no desktop, not because of this problem) and everything is working fine now. I still have no idea what was going on before.

[Author]

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