mt-daapd Automatic Startup Upon Ubuntu Startup [solved]

[onedotseven]

Hello,

First I’m sorry if this has been already answered or if it’s a dumb question. I’m a newbie and couldn’t find an answer (or at least an easy one).

I installed Firefly on my Ubuntu system. I think this was successful: if I type mt-daapd in a terminal session, Firefly starts up and I can then access my music collection in Rhythmbox, Banshee and even in iTunes on a Windows computer on the same network.

Now I would love to not have to start Firefly with a command line every time I log in my computer… Is there a way for mt-daapd to be automatically launch upon Ubuntu start-up? I checked into the Services Startup options, but couldn’t find anything.

Thanks for your help 🙂

Oh, and thanks for such a great software! Next step will be to buy a shiny new SoundBridge 🙂

[rpedde]

@onedotseven wrote:

I installed Firefly on my Ubuntu system. I think this was successful: if I type mt-daapd in a terminal session, Firefly starts up and I can then access my music collection in Rhythmbox, Banshee and even in iTunes on a Windows computer on the same network.

How did you install it, from a tarball, or a package.

If there is a file called “/etc/init.d/mt-daapd”, then you already have a startup script. As root, running “/etc/init.d/mt-daapd start” should start the server, and “/etc/init.d/mt-daapd stop” should stop the server.

If so, then you can just do something like:

foo@bar:~$ sudo update-rc.d mt-daapd defaults

… or I should say, that’s how one would do it on debian. I can only assume it’s the same with ubuntu.

If you don’t have a /etc/init.d/mt-daapd, then try saving this file as “mt-daapd” in /etc/init.d, and use the “update-rc.d” command above.

That shold get you blindly running.

For more info on how the startup system works, you can read here:

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit

— Ron

[onedotseven]

Ron,

Thank you for taking the time to help me.

I installed Firefly (SVN 1463) from a Tarball. I should also have said that I use Ubuntu 6.10.

So, I tried this command

foo@bar:~$ sudo update-rc.d mt-daapd defaults

It seemed to work (the output was “added to startup script” or something like that). I restarted Ubuntu but mt-daapd didn’t start automatically. And now, if I start it in the terminal, it doesn’t work either (I get no error message).

Edit: I un-installed completely Firefly (including configuration files), re-installed and entered the same command: mt-daapd doesn’t automatically start upon Ubuntu startup, but can be started manually.

I didn’t find any error or anything related to mt-daapd in the logs (but I’m really not an expert) and if I enter once again the command, it outputs: “System startup links for /etc/init.d/mt-daapd already exist.”

Any ideas? 😕

[rpedde]

@onedotseven wrote:

So, I tried this command

foo@bar:~$ sudo update-rc.d mt-daapd defaults

Is there actually a file in /etc/init.d called “mt-daapd”?

If not, copy the file linked above as /etc/init.d/mt-daapd.

That should probably do it.

— Ron

[fizze]

I installed the latest mt-daapd on ubuntu too, and there seems to be some problem with the (new) startup stuff in 6.10. Its not System V anymore, but something different.

Just blatantly edit /etc/rc.local and add the call to /etc/init.d/mt-daapd start to that file.

There seems to be an issue with some packages that wont totally work under 6.10. avahi-daemon for instance, refuses to start for me. I do the same rc.local trick/hack/cheat, which works.

[rpedde]

@fizze wrote:

I installed the latest mt-daapd on ubuntu too, and there seems to be some problem with the (new) startup stuff in 6.10. Its not System V anymore, but something different.

Wow. I hadn’t noticed that. It uses upstart rather than sysvinit. Neat.

I might have to play with that, as upstart looks pretty neat.

– Ron

[onedotseven]

Is there actually a file in /etc/init.d called “mt-daapd”?

Yes Ron, I have this file.

Just blatantly edit /etc/rc.local and add the call to /etc/init.d/mt-daapd start to that file.

I will try that as soon as I’m back home and will let you guys know.

Thanks so much for the help!

[onedotseven]

OK, I tried that, with not much success unfortunately… 🙁

Checking the log, the daemon seems to fire up. But I cannot see Firefly’s share in Rhythmbox or in Avahi Zeroconf Browser.

Strange thing: I can access the web admin. It tells me that mt-daapd is running, but this isn’t the case for the “Bonjour Daemon”.

When I try to start Firefly from the terminal, it crashes:

mt-daapd[5142]: Rendezvous socket closed (daap server crashed?) Aborting.

[rpedde]

@onedotseven wrote:

OK, I tried that, with not much success unfortunately… 🙁

Checking the log, the daemon seems to fire up. But I cannot see Firefly’s share in Rhythmbox or in Avahi Zeroconf Browser.

Strange thing: I can access the web admin. It tells me that mt-daapd is running, but this isn’t the case for the “Bonjour Daemon”.

When I try to start Firefly from the terminal, it crashes:

mt-daapd[5142]: Rendezvous socket closed (daap server crashed?) Aborting.

When you compiled it, did you compile with “–enable-avahi”? That might help, as it uses avahi to announce itself. It might be that if you are running avahi it steps on the build-in mdns daemon.

[onedotseven]

OK, you’re going to start to hate me 🙂

I did not compile with –enable-avahi. So I just tried, and I got this:

checking for AVAHI_CFLAGS...

checking for AVAHI_LIBS...

configure: error: Package requirements ( avahi-client >= 0.6 ) were not met.

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you

installed software in a non-standard prefix.



Alternatively you may set the AVAHI_CFLAGS and AVAHI_LIBS environment variables

to avoid the need to call pkg-config.  See the pkg-config man page for

more details.

And that’s over my understanding. I’m really new to Linux, but I feel that this is more a Linux issue than Firefly issue. So I apologize for that, and I’m really thankful if you are still up to help me.

(I don’t want to troll, but the installation was much easier on Windows :P)

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