Setting up Firefly

[JRudner]

Hello, I am trying to install Firefly, but I’m having some problems:

1) I cannot access the firefly web interface, I get an ‘this page does not exist’ message.

2) Through the slug web interface, how can I browse or create a folder called MP3?

Thanks for any help

JRudner

[rpedde]

@JRudner wrote:

Hello, I am trying to install Firefly, but I’m having some problems:

1) I cannot access the firefly web interface, I get an ‘this page does not exist’ message.

2) Through the slug web interface, how can I browse or create a folder called MP3?

Thanks for any help

JRudner

What version? The stable, using 0.2.4, or the nightlies?

If you can’t access the web interface, then it’s either not running, or its still doing the initial scan. You can look at your process list “ps auxw” to see if it’s running.

If not, then check the syslog to see why not. You should see an error there.

You may also want to look at the docs on NSLU2 install to see if that helps any.

[JRudner]

Hi, I installed the nightlies.

What version? The stable, using 0.2.4, or the nightlies?

I ran ps auxw, but I dont know the process name that I should be looking for.

Thanks,

JRudner

[rpedde]

@JRudner wrote:

Hi, I installed the nightlies.

What version? The stable, using 0.2.4, or the nightlies?

I ran ps auxw, but I dont know the process name that I should be looking for.

Thanks,

JRudner

You are looking for something called “mt-daapd”. Should be either two of them, if it’s still scanning for music, or four of them if it’s running and ready to serve music.

You can edit /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf and set the debuglevel to 9, and set the logfile to a path on your hard drive. Then start it, and see what the log says.

Another way to do nearly the same thing would be to run it like this:

# /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -d9 -f  -m -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

If it dies, it should leave a message on the screen describing why.

— Ron

[JRudner]

BusyBox v0.60.4 (2005.03.22-06:52+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter ‘help’ for a list of built-in commands.

# /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -d9 -f -m -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf
Found 1 tokens in /share/hdd/data/public/mp3
Token 1: /share/hdd/data/public/mp3
Expanding precomments to 2048
Expanding precomments to 4096
Checking existence of /opt/share/mt-daapd/admin-root
Checking existence of /opt/share/mt-daapd/admin-root
Config entry general/db_dir is deprecated. Please review the sample config
Checking existence of /opt/var/mt-daapd
Checking existence of /opt/var/mt-daapd
Loading new config file.
Firefly Version svn-1498: Starting with debuglevel 9
Starting signal handler
Opening database
db_sqlite2_open: unable to open database: /var/cache/mt-daapd/songs.db (/var/cac
he/mt-daapd/songs.db)
Results: 1
Error opening db: Misc SQL Error: unable to open database: /var/cache/mt-daapd/s
ongs.db
#

[rpedde]

@JRudner wrote:

db_sqlite2_open: unable to open database: /var/cache/mt-daapd/songs.db (/var/cac
he/mt-daapd/songs.db)
#

Hrm. Should be there. Maybe permissions are wrong, though. Try:

# mkdir -p /var/cache/mt-daapd

# chown -R 777 /var/cache/mt-daapd

Which is kind of gross, but probably isn’t a problem on a non-multi-user system.

— Ron

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