Not finding any song files on Kurobox install

[Digital Larry]

Using Kurobox-HG.

My OS is the so-called “Sylver” 2.6 version, apparently based on Debian.

I attempted the make of the latest svn-1489 and encountered some header file issues (I’ll post another thread on that).

Meanwhile, back on this 2005 version of mt-daapd included with Sylver, I’m not getting any songs added to the data base. I’ve copied a bunch of mp3’s into the /mnt/itunes folder, and pressed the scan button a few times. I’m guessing that what’s going on is that my database app isn’t running but I don’t know how to fire it up properly I guess.

Here’s my ps -aux:

[root@KURO-BOX:~]$ ps -aux
Bad syntax, perhaps a bogus ‘-‘?
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 99.9 1528 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 init [2]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Jan21 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Jan21 0:00 [events/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Jan21 0:00 [khelper]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Jan21 0:00 [kthread]
root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Jan21 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Jan21 0:00 [khubd]
root 53 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jan21 0:00 [pdflush]
root 54 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jan21 0:00 [pdflush]
root 56 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Jan21 0:00 [aio/0]
root 55 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jan21 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 640 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Jan21 0:00 [kseriod]
root 686 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jan21 0:00 [mtdblockd]
root 726 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jan21 0:00 [kjournald]
root 770 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jan21 0:00 [kjournald]
root 832 0.0 99.9 1528 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 dhcpcd -h KURO-BOX -t 10 eth0
root 879 0.0 99.9 1644 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /sbin/syslogd -m 1440
root 881 0.0 99.9 1516 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /sbin/klogd
root 914 0.0 99.9 1628 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
root 920 0.0 99.9 4712 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd.conf
root 921 0.0 99.9 14472 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/bin/php
root 928 0.0 99.9 14472 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/bin/php
root 931 0.0 99.9 14472 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/bin/php
root 932 0.0 99.9 14472 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/bin/php
root 933 0.0 99.9 2872 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/sbin/xinetd
root 936 0.0 99.9 14472 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/bin/php
root 937 0.0 99.9 14472 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/bin/php
root 938 0.0 99.9 14472 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/bin/php
root 939 0.0 99.9 14472 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/bin/php
daemon 940 0.0 99.9 3544 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 lpd Waiting
root 945 0.0 99.9 1648 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 960 0.0 99.9 2000 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/sbin/atalkd -f /etc/atalk/atalkd.conf
root 962 0.0 99.9 3920 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 968 0.0 99.9 7500 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
root 970 0.0 99.9 7500 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
root 971 0.0 99.9 5136 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
nobody 975 0.0 99.9 3896 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/mt-daapd
nobody 976 0.0 99.9 8060 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:06 /usr/local/sbin/mt-daapd
nobody 977 0.0 99.9 8060 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/mt-daapd
nobody 979 0.0 99.9 8060 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/mt-daapd
root 983 0.0 99.9 1504 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:02 /usr/sbin/ppc_uartd
root 985 0.0 99.9 1512 589505315 ttyS0 S Jan21 0:00 /sbin/getty console
nobody 986 0.0 99.9 8060 589505315 ? S Jan21 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/mt-daapd
root 1150 0.0 99.9 1980 589505315 ? S 06:10 0:00 in.telnetd: 192.168.11.100
root 1151 0.0 99.9 3284 589505315 pts/0 S 06:10 0:00 -bash
root 1177 0.0 99.9 2868 589505315 pts/0 R 06:13 0:00 ps -aux

And the important parts of my mt-daapd.conf:

web_root /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root
port 3689
admin_pw mt-daapd
db_dir /var/cache/mt-daapd
mp3_dir /mnt/itunes
servername KuroBox
runas nobody
playlist /etc/mt-daapd.playlist
extensions .mp3,.m4a,.m4p,.ogg
ssc_extensions .ogg
ssc_prog /etc/mt-daapd-ssc-script
logfile /var/log/mt-daapd.log
art_filename _folderOpenImage.jpg
rescan_interval 300
scan_type 0

Web interface runs.
songs.db exists in /var/cache/mt-daapd.
Playlist file does not exist.
logfile exists, here’s mostly what it consists of:

2007-01-20 21:00:32: Starting rendezvous daemon
2007-01-20 21:00:32: Starting signal handler
2007-01-20 21:00:33: Initializing database
2007-01-20 21:00:33: Full reload…
2007-01-20 21:00:33: Starting mp3 scan
2007-01-20 21:00:33: Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689
2007-01-20 21:00:33: Registering rendezvous names
2007-01-20 21:00:33: Scanned 0 songs in 1 seconds

2007-01-20 23:56:50: Rescanning database
2007-01-21 00:00:34: Got INT signal. Notifying daap server.
[this is my automated system shutdown, almost certain]

2007-01-21 08:00:03: Starting rendezvous daemon
[and wake up at 8AM]

2007-01-21 08:00:03: Starting signal handler
2007-01-21 08:00:04: Initializing database
2007-01-21 08:00:04: Full reload…
2007-01-21 08:00:04: Starting mp3 scan
2007-01-21 08:00:04: Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689
2007-01-21 08:00:04: Registering rendezvous names
2007-01-21 08:00:04: Scanned 0 songs in 1 seconds
2007-01-21 08:05:06: Rescanning database
2007-01-21 08:10:09: Rescanning database

Roku SoundBridge and iTunes on my PC both recognize the Kurobox as a server but no songs!!!

So, what should I do next?

[CCRDude]

Seems you ignored one of my warnings 😛

@Digital Larry wrote:

I made the folder /mnt/iTunes and copied some folders over there. …

@Digital Larry wrote:

And the important parts of my mt-daapd.conf:

web_root /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root
port 3689
admin_pw mt-daapd
db_dir /var/cache/mt-daapd
mp3_dir /mnt/itunes

Different media folder, can’t work.
(case matters was the warning, if you don’t remember 😉 )

[Digital Larry]

Hi CCR,

Actually the case was OK in the config file, I just blew it when typing it in here. But thx for the reminder.

In any case I built and installed the svn-1489 version so now I have a different set of problems!

[rpedde]

@Digital Larry wrote:

Hi CCR,

Actually the case was OK in the config file, I just blew it when typing it in here. But thx for the reminder.

In any case I built and installed the svn-1489 version so now I have a different set of problems!

You’ll have yet another if you keep that config file. You’ll probably want to get the sample config from the “contrib” directory and overwrite your existing one. Then edit it to taste.

There are some differences in the config file (particularly the [plugins] section) and you’ll have to have a “new format” config file to work right.

— Ron

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