Ubuntu / MyiHome 5.2 script issues.

[Mathias90]

Hi.

I'm new to this forum - this seems to be a nice community for NMT-users!


I am experiencing issues with my recently installed Ubuntu and my MyiHome 5.2!

Yesterday I installed MyiHome which went perfectly. I were able to start the server, by changing directory to the location of MyiHome and by running the ./startserver command.

I thought having to start MyiHome manually every time would become a pain in the ***, so I decided to write a script. Apparently someone already did that, so I found the already written script and edited to fit my configuration.

This is the script:

Quote:#!/bin/bash
cd /home/mathias/myiHome/
./startserver.sh

Then I found this tutorial for adding the script to the startup scripts:
http://www.debian-administration.org/art...ith_Debian

So I put the script in the init.d folder, and ran this command to add the necessary
symlinks:

Quote:update-rc.d myiHome defaults

Then I rebooted the machine. The service initially indeed seamed to be started, but loading the iHome directories for video resp. photos and music on my Popcorn Hour A-110, did not show any files (as it did yesterday when I ran the script manually).

I tried to stop/start the service with the

Quote:service myiHome stop resp. start

command, but the application returned the following error with both commands:

Quote:[Server@cbf30e]: [Thread[HSQLDB Server @cbf30e,5,main]]: run()/openServerSocket():
java.net.BindException: Address already in use
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(PlainSocketImpl.java:365)
at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(ServerSocket.java:319)
at java.net.ServerSocket.(ServerSocket.java:185)
at java.net.ServerSocket.(ServerSocket.java:97)
at org.hsqldb.HsqlSocketFactory.createServerSocket(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.Server.openServerSocket(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.Server.run(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.Server.access$000(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.Server$ServerThread.run(Unknown Source)
[Server@cbf30e]: Initiating shutdown sequence...
[Server@cbf30e]: Shutdown sequence completed in 10 ms.
[Server@cbf30e]: 2010-02-24 19:35:25.796 SHUTDOWN : System.exit() is called next

I tried to reboot once again. This time I realized, that my Samba daemon service hang during shut down, so I had to "kill" the machine by removing the power cord. This happened several times afterwards.

I tried to remove the script from init.d with this command:

Quote:update-rc.d myiHome remove

and to re-add it with the command mentioned earlier, but that did not help.

Am I doing anything wrong?
What might cause these issues?


/Mathias

[JKG]

i have KDE and scripts saved in ~/.kde/Autostart folder are run after login. In Gnome (I think) you can add items in /usr/share/autostart.

[Mathias90]

(02-24-2010 08:10 PM)JKG Wrote:  i have KDE and scripts saved in ~/.kde/Autostart folder are run after login. In Gnome (I think) you can add items in /usr/share/autostart.

Thanks for the answer.

Well. I do have a usr/share/autostart folder, but putting the script in there doesn't seem to start it after a reboot anyway.

Any other ideas?

[JKG]

(02-24-2010 08:22 PM)Mathias90 Wrote:  Well. I do have a usr/share/autostart folder, but putting the script in there doesn't seem to start it after a reboot anyway.

Any other ideas?

If you have any other files in the folder, you can check the syntax. They are not script files.

I think the autostart folder for Gnome is /etc/xdg/autostart. At least i have some Gnome autostart files there. There seems to be only KDE files in /usr/share/autostart.

[Mathias90]

OK. This is weird. (or maybe not?)

I have removed the scrip from init.d and rebooted the machine, but now MyiHome won't even show me any video resp. photos or music on my PCH.

This is the output of my preference.xml:

Quote:

(I can't seem to quote the code - all my directories point to my desktop and my desktop contains matroska files, so they should be detected as video files (as they did yesterday).

---

Hi again.

Thanks for the proposal. The script issue is already fixed - It turned out that I had a second preference.xml in my root folder. After correcting the pointers in that file, the script ran after a reboot plus I was able to see the index. :-)


What is still nagging me, is the "Samba Daemon stopping" hang that comes immediately after clicking the reboot button. Any solution for that? It looks like I may have misconfigured something in the /etc/init.d folder. I'm not sure what though. If you need any configuration snapshots to troubleshoot closer, please ask.

[flashenator]

Hello,

It appears I am having similar issues... any help would be GREATLY appreciated on this, as I am unable to run myiHome due to this "Address already in use" deal. I currently get the following issue when I try to run ./startserver.sh:

Quote:>> IHOME_HOME = /home/mediaserver/Documents/myiHome/myiHomeLinux-v5.2.0
>> audioextpath = /home/mediaserver/Documents/myiHome/myiHomeLinux-v5.2.0/webapps/ROOT/xml/music.xml
>> langxml = /home/mediaserver/Documents/myiHome/myiHomeLinux-v5.2.0/webapps/ROOT/xml/index.xml
>> videopath = /home/mediaserver/Downloads
>> audiopath = /home/mediaserver/My Music
>> photopath = /home/mediaserver/My Pictures
>> exportpath = /home/mediaserver/Library/myiHome/export
>> thumbpath = /home/mediaserver/Library/myiHome/thumb
[Server@21b220]: [Thread[main,5,main]]: checkRunning(false) entered
[Server@21b220]: [Thread[main,5,main]]: checkRunning(false) exited
[Server@21b220]: Startup sequence initiated from main() method
[Server@21b220]: Loaded properties from [/home/mediaserver/Documents/myiHome/myiHomeLinux-v5.2.0/server.properties]
[Server@21b220]: Initiating startup sequence...
[Server@21b220]: [Thread[HSQLDB Server @21b220,5,main]]: run()/openServerSocket():
java.net.BindException: Address already in use
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(PlainSocketImpl.java:365)
at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(ServerSocket.java:319)
at java.net.ServerSocket.(ServerSocket.java:185)
at java.net.ServerSocket.(ServerSocket.java:97)
at org.hsqldb.HsqlSocketFactory.createServerSocket(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.Server.openServerSocket(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.Server.run(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.Server.access$000(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.Server$ServerThread.run(Unknown Source)
[Server@21b220]: Initiating shutdown sequence...
[Server@21b220]: Shutdown sequence completed in 26 ms.
[Server@21b220]: 2010-05-05 11:34:31.803 SHUTDOWN : System.exit() is called next

I currently have Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02), and cannot seem to find any processes running on Port 8000 (though when I try to go to localhost:8000 it pulls up an error page "HTTP Status 404 - Servlet syabas.myihome.index_jsp is not available")

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[artships]

What worked for me was lifting chunks from stuff in Shaika-Dzari's thread, linux package and daemon script. I noticed when I started myihome as root it didn't read my ~/Library/myiHome/preference.xml. My /etc/init.d/myihomeStart is a sym link to /home/john/myihomeStart, which looks like this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
NAME=myihome
LOGFILE=$NAME.log
case "$1" in
        start)
                log_daemon_msg "Starting myiHome daemon"
                cd /home/john/myiHome
                #sudo -u john ./startserver.sh  > $LOGFILE
                sudo -u john java -Djava.endorsed.dirs=Contents/Resources/Java/lib/endorsed -classpath .:QTJava.zip:myiHome-server.jar:syabas-content.jar:syabas-media.jar:syabas-news.jar:syabas-portal.jar syabas.myihome.server.TomcatServer &> /home/john/myiHome/myihome.log &
                  > $LOGFILE
                ;;
        stop)
                log_daemon_msg "Stopping myiHome daemon"
                pkill -f myiHome
                exit 0
                ;;
        restart)
                log_daemon_msg "Restarting myiHome daemon"
                $0 stop
                sleep 3
                $0 start
                ;;
        *)
                echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/myihomeStart {start|stop|restart}"
                exit 1
                ;;
esac

exit 0

Note that the "sudo -u" line is all one very long line. The thing that made this work is starting java as me ("sudo -u john") instead of as root.

Now I can use my a200's Network Browser to go to my NAS and play videos from it. Alas, I've installed and run yamj, copied it's index.html file and Jukebox directory over to the a200's harddrive, seen it show-up on the TV in all its glory when hte a200 is turned-on, but selecting a movie to watch results in a "could not play" error. Obviously, the href link in the html has the path wrong. What should it say? To play /mnt/raid/public/TVshows/Rome/rome.S01E01.mpg what should the link be?
http://192.168.1.70/TVshows/Rome/rome.S01E01.mpg?
http://192.168.1.70:8000/TVshows/Rome/rome.S01E01.mpg? Something else?

[artships]

What worked for me was lifting chunks from stuff in Shaika-Dzari's thread, linux package and daemon script. I noticed when I started myihome as root it didn't read my ~/Library/myiHome/preference.xml. My /etc/init.d/myihomeStart is a sym link to /home/john/myihomeStart, which looks like this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
NAME=myihome
LOGFILE=$NAME.log
case "$1" in
        start)
                log_daemon_msg "Starting myiHome daemon"
                cd /home/john/myiHome
                #sudo -u john ./startserver.sh  > $LOGFILE
                sudo -u john java -Djava.endorsed.dirs=Contents/Resources/Java/lib/endorsed -classpath .:QTJava.zip:myiHome-server.jar:syabas-content.jar:syabas-media.jar:syabas-news.jar:syabas-portal.jar syabas.myihome.server.TomcatServer &> /home/john/myiHome/myihome.log &
                  > $LOGFILE
                ;;
        stop)
                log_daemon_msg "Stopping myiHome daemon"
                pkill -f myiHome
                exit 0
                ;;
        restart)
                log_daemon_msg "Restarting myiHome daemon"
                $0 stop
                sleep 3
                $0 start
                ;;
        *)
                echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/myihomeStart {start|stop|restart}"
                exit 1
                ;;
esac

exit 0

Note that the "sudo -u" line is all one very long line. The thing that made this work is starting java as me ("sudo -u john") instead of as root.

Now I can use my a200's Network Browser to go to my NAS and play videos from it.

Alas, I've installed and run yamj, copied it's index.html file and Jukebox directory over to the a200's harddrive, seen it show-up on the TV in all its glory when the a200 is turned-on, but selecting a movie to watch results in a "could not play" error. Obviously, the href link in the html has the path wrong. To play /mnt/raid/public/TVshows/Rome/rome.S01E01.mpg what should the link be?
http://192.168.1.70:8000/TVshows/Rome/rome.S01E01.mpg doesn't work.