Solving miniDLNA installation issues

Having an installation issue it would seem, cant get the plugin to start

Want to try what you suggest here, is there a quick way to manually add a repo?

(vi does not appear to be available to me to run or install)

Nano, where have you been all my life?!?!

Still no dice after repo add, further digging in the forum I tried steps below and am now rocking out!

Thanks sbocquet & tekkbebe!

Re: Minidlna server error
by tekkbebe » Tue 4. Sep 2012, 17:21

you hopefully have putty and know how to enter a ssh root session on the server....???

1st)
service minidlna stop

2) make sure you have minidlna folder /var/cache/minidlna:
cd /var/cache

3) run list command
ls

4) do you see minidlna folder? if you do not see it do this step otherwise go to next step while in /var/cache folder
mkdir minidlna

5) then
chown -R minidlna:minidlna /var/cache/minidlna

6) delete any files.db
rm /var/cache/minidlna/files.db
rm /tmp/minidlna/files.db

7) it looks like you have just video in your media folder so edit your minidlna.conf in /etc
cd /etc
nano minidlna.conf (if nano does not start install it by "apt-get install nano")
scroll down to your media line "media_dir=/media/1b81a907-33b1-474d-bf78-ba74625fed86/HDfilmek/"
edit so it reads as follows "media_dir=V,/media/1b81a907-33b1-474d-bf78-ba74625fed86/HDfilmek/"
hold CTRL and press x
press y
save name as minidlna.conf (minidlna.conf name should be showing and you should be able to just enter to confirm same name)
then do a hold CTRL and press x again

lastly
service minidlna start
Last edited by tekkbebe on Tue 4. Sep 2012, 18:05, edited 7 times in total.
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sorry, but the title was so familiar to me, and there's still something wrong in my omv/minidlna

->deb-multimedia added to repository and refreshed
->apt-get purge openmediavault-minidlna to remove everything from the previous install via webgui

(i'm running omv 03.0.25, and the minidlna 1.0.23 from the plugins repository gave me the Invalid method parameter: Array is not an object error. i read about the wrong version, unsupported in latest omv so i uninstalled the plugin from the webgui and finally arrived to this post)

->apt-get install minidlna done
->missing minidlna folder created on /var/cache/ and chown as listed before (even if i don't understand this command)
->service minidlna start and i got no error message

but how i can manage folders etc in the webgui? what's wrong in what i'm doing? maybe i miss the right line from the plugin list? or maybe there's no easy way out to install minidlna in a noobfriendly way? thanks..

Zitat von "sbocquet"

Hi,

Sorry, I forgot to mention that if you already have minidlna installed, you should remove it by "apt-get remove openmediavault-minidlna" before reinstalling it for the deb-multimedia.org repo.

Nice it works

This will remove the plugin.
Minidlna does not live within the plugin package, since a few months.

lots of new message from my omv.. trying to install minidlna from webgui after doing all the things of this post, and all i got is

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openmediavault-minidlna
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2578 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6697 kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  openmediavault-minidlna
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin:
Authentication warning overridden.
Selecting previously deselected package openmediavault-minidlna.
(Reading database ... 22844 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openmediavault-minidlna (from .../minidlna_1.0.23-cvs20111203-static-4_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/openmediavault/archives/./minidlna_1.0.23-cvs20111203-static-4_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/default/minidlna', which is also in package minidlna 1.0.25
configured to not write apport reports
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/openmediavault/archives/./minidlna_1.0.23-cvs20111203-static-4_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Done ...

i can't feel "the force", sorry :x