[Announce] SlimNAS 0.1 - SlimServer on FreeNAS

[superpat999]

Hi Michael,

Just installed your latest version.

I saw the new tab on the extension maintenance page, to download the Slimserver log. I clicked on it and opened a large can of worms.

Slimserver is reporting a number of problems, including not being able to connect to the internet to get any Slimdevices downloads.

Snippet from Slimserver log file:-

2007-02-03 19:29:42.6461 Use of uninitialized value in split at /mnt/multimedia/slimnas/slimserver/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 110.
2007-02-03 19:29:43.0282 Use of uninitialized value in split at /mnt/multimedia/slimnas/slimserver/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 110.
Warning: World-writable config file '/mnt/multimedia/slimnas/var/slimserver/my.cnf' is ignored
2007-02-03 19:30:13.3245 ERROR: MySQLHelper: createSystemTables() Couldn't connect to database: [Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/mnt/multimedia/slimnas/var/slimserver/slimserver-mysql.sock' (2)]

2007-02-03 19:33:22.8557 Use of uninitialized value in split at /mnt/multimedia/slimnas/slimserver/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 110.
2007-02-03 19:33:23.2470 Use of uninitialized value in split at /mnt/multimedia/slimnas/slimserver/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 110.
2007-02-03 19:33:28.0944 Warning: Migrating from 6.3.x used with MySQL!
2007-02-03 19:33:36.5361 Aysnc: No DNS servers responded, you may have trouble with network connections. Please check your network settings.
2007-02-03 19:33:36.5727 UPnP: Error adding multicast membership, UPnP may not work properly: Protocol not available
2007-02-03 19:33:36.5744 UPnP: Error setting multicast TTL: Protocol not available

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
2007-02-03 19:33:36.7846 Couldn't resolve IP address for: localhost

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (My edit to draw attention to this entry)


2007-02-03 19:33:38.7289 Your data source needs to be configured. Please open your web browser,
2007-02-03 19:33:38.7294 go to the following URL, and click on the "Server Settings" link.

2007-02-03 19:33:38.7298 The URL to access SlimServer is now:

http://medianas.byeslane.org:9000/
2007-02-03 19:33:38.7696 ERROR: Async: Couldn't resolve IP address for update.slimdevices.com: Send: Network is unreachable

2007-02-03 19:33:38.7710 There was an error while checking for updates to SlimServer:
Failed to connect to http://update.slimdevices.com/update...=6.5.1&lang=EN (Couldn't resolve IP address for update.slimdevices.com: Send: Network is unreachable)

2007-02-03 19:34:22.3931 Warning: Couldn't call connect() - falling back to 127.0.0.1
2007-02-03 19:46:03.7895 About to look for files in /mnt/multimedia/Music
2007-02-03 19:46:03.7980 For files with extensions in: [(?i-xsm:\.(?:ape|wma|shn|wav|wave|mp3|mp2|flc|flac|m4a |mov|m4b|mp4|mp+|mpc|ogg|aif|aiff|cue)$)]
2007-02-03 19:46:09.2962 Found 4781 files in /mnt/multimedia/Music

I thought I would start by trying to fix the internet problem.

I have not got a local DNS server, so I need to make the FreeNas resolve its host name to IP address. To do this I need to put an entry in the /etc/hosts file.

I tried to do this using the file edit facility in Freenas. Unfortunately it appears not to be able to write to the /etc directory. Allthough the edit appears to work, on the next reboot it is 0 length again.

I had a look at the Freenas forum. There was a guy asking how to set up a hosts file in July 2006, and he never got an answer!

Please can I ask here? How do I write a /etc/hosts file on Freenas?

If I create one on my local pc, how do I move it to /etc?

Btw I put my memory back to 256Mb before doing the v0.3 upgrade.
I deleted all the files in slimnas and reloaded the latest and reinstalled slimnas and slimserver.

I started a softsqueeze session whilst Slimserver was scanning and after about thirty seconds Freenas ran out of swap space, I cannot show you the error, I rebooted before I copied the error.

regards

Patrick

[superpat999]

Hi,

Well I worked out how to use ssh. I was very pleased to find that Freenas uses the nano editor, (I hate vi). I put a hosts file in the freenas /etc directory, but no joy. I had a look around the slimnas directoryy and discovered another empty etc directory there.

What is this one for?

Can slimserver do a resolve of host name to IP address itself?

There is a file slimserver.prefs containing host name and allowable hosts, where does this get parsed?

so much to learn, and so many other things to do, (my wife's all electronic Renault has just decided to develop an electrical short and self discharge the battery, setting off the car alarm on the way down. Do you know, disconnecting the car battery doesn't stop the alarm, it has its own built in battery, and the whole shebang is buried in the body somewhere! The neighbours are pi**sd! )

Michael --- ANything I can try and report for you?

regards

Patrick

[superpat999]

Hi

Here is the Freenas error log entry for the out of swap space error

This is with 256MB DIMM, completely reinstalled V0.3 and Slim 6.5.1 and a full scan with NO SB3 or softsqueeze running:-

Feb 4 10:42:04 kernel: pid 5724 (perl), uid 80, was killed: out of swap space

(fixed the car, wish the Freenas was as easy!)

P

[boerner]

Hi Michael,

I was running your 0.1 release, and tried to upgrade to the 0.31 release. I uploaded the two new files, (I kept the old slimserver.tar.gz package the same) and tried to re-install and when I refreshed the browser it just was a bunch of error messages. I tried to install again and no nothing is added to the extensions menu. I may try to re-do from scratch.

Was my method the "preferred" upgrade procedure?

[boerner]

Replying to myself again...

I rebooted my FreeNAS box and tried the installation again and all is working properly.

[superpat999]

Hi Michael

I would appreciate some advice here please.

Running Slimnas 0.31, I have posted an error log from today. This is from start-up to playing music. (no scanning):-

2007-02-08 10:12:44.6186 Aysnc: No DNS servers responded, you may have trouble with network connections. Please check your network settings.
2007-02-08 10:12:44.6694 UPnP: Error adding multicast membership, UPnP may not work properly: Protocol not available
2007-02-08 10:12:44.6708 UPnP: Error setting multicast TTL: Protocol not available
2007-02-08 10:12:44.9163 Couldn't resolve IP address for: localhost
Usage: mDNSResponderPosix [-v level ] [-r] [-n name] [-t type] [-d domain] [-p port] [-f file] [-b] [-P pidfile] [-x name=val ...]
-v verbose mode, level is a number from 0 to 2
0 = no debugging info (default)
1 = standard debugging info
2 = intense debugging info
can be cycled kill -USR1
-r also bind to port 53 (port 5353 is always bound)
-n uses 'name' as the service name (required)
-t uses 'type' as the service type (default is '_afpovertcp._tcp.')
-d uses 'domain' as the service domain (default is 'local.')
-p uses 'port' as the port number (default is '548')
-f reads a service list from 'file'
-b forces daemon (background) mode
-P uses 'pidfile' as the PID file
(default is '/var/run/mDNSResponder.pid')
only meaningful if -b also specified
-x stores name=val in TXT record (default is empty).
MUST be the last command-line argument;
all subsequent arguments after -x are treated as name=val pairs.
mDNSResponderPosix: Unexpected argument '/mnt/multimedia/slimnas/var/slimserver/mDNS.conf'
Usage: mDNSResponderPosix [-v level ] [-r] [-n name] [-t type] [-d domain] [-p port] [-f file] [-b] [-P pidfile] [-x name=val ...]
-v verbose mode, level is a number from 0 to 2
0 = no debugging info (default)
1 = standard debugging info
2 = intense debugging info
can be cycled kill -USR1
-r also bind to port 53 (port 5353 is always bound)
-n uses 'name' as the service name (required)
-t uses 'type' as the service type (default is '_afpovertcp._tcp.')
-d uses 'domain' as the service domain (default is 'local.')
-p uses 'port' as the port number (default is '548')
-f reads a service list from 'file'
-b forces daemon (background) mode
-P uses 'pidfile' as the PID file
(default is '/var/run/mDNSResponder.pid')
only meaningful if -b also specified
-x stores name=val in TXT record (default is empty).
MUST be the last command-line argument;
all subsequent arguments after -x are treated as name=val pairs.
mDNSResponderPosix: Unexpected argument '/mnt/multimedia/slimnas/var/slimserver/mDNS.conf'
2007-02-08 10:12:47.4984 ERROR: Async: Couldn't resolve IP address for update.slimdevices.com: Send: Network is unreachable

2007-02-08 10:12:47.5000 There was an error while checking for updates to SlimServer:
Failed to connect to http://update.slimdevices.com/update...=6.5.2&lang=EN (Couldn't resolve IP address for update.slimdevices.com: Send: Network is unreachable)

As you can see the only error error is the problem of Slimserver resolving the IP address of the update host.

The setup here is I have a broadband router, I use my ISP's DNS, I have my internal LAN, Nat'd and firewalled in the 192.168.2.xxx range. I have DHCP running on the router with a pool of 50 available addresses. I have given the FreeNas server a fixed IP address of 192.168.2.52.

As I said earlier I have made a couple of attempts to use a hosts file, but re-reading the error log, I think I may be barking up the wrong tree.

The proble is I do not understand mdnsResponder.

All my other apps on my main pc here can get their required IP addresses resolved by the ISP's DNS servers.

Why is it Slimserver running on FreeNas can't get the required IP addresses?

regards

Patrick

[superpat999]

Hi,

I just found this post:-

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...ight=mDNS.conf

dated March 2006... Exactly the same error and nobody ever answered the query.

Looking at the format of his and my mDNS.conf file, I think the syntax may be wrong.

SlimServer
_http._tcp
TXT
9000

SlimServer
_slimhttp._tcp
TXT
9000

SlimServer
_slimcli._tcp
TXT
9090

I think, (from long searches in Google) the syntax should be:-

SlimServer
_http._tcp.
TXT
9000

SlimServer
_slimhttp._tcp.
TXT
9000

SlimServer
_slimcli._tcp.
TXT
9090

I tried to edit my mDNS.conf, but for some reason it will not allowed to be edited, ( I chanbged the perms but after a reboot it is back to the version with no full stops.

Soo

Is the full stop important?

If so how do I change the mDNS.conf file?

cheers

Patrick

[tommypeters]

Hello Michael,
As far as I can tell, when FreeNAS is installed to local disk it creates two partitions, one for the OS and one for the data. If I am reading things right it looks like it only creates about a 20 meg partition for the OS (which I assume is because ideally it would run from a small flash device). I can then then also assume that when the install runs it is able to load everything in RAM, but does not have enough space to save the new files that reference the slimserver installation to disk?

I have not come far enough in the installation yet (only half of the FreeNAS installation yesterday evening) but indeed the documentation/forum seems to indicate a very small partition is created (around 34MB). I will see if I can find any way to change this, but maybe you already have found this out?

[Steven W.]

I've installed SlimServer on my FreeNAS machine with just one sticking point - I had to reboot the FreeNAS machine in order for the "scan library" function to work. I could browse my music through Slimserver, but the library scan wouldn't "take" without rebooting first.
I'm very happy to be running SlimServer off of my basement FreeNAS machine

Thanks again for all the work you put into software for the Squeezebox

[Steven W.]

Regardless of what plugin I'm using for the screensaver, my Squeezebox time is always ahead by 8 hours.
Slimserver is supposed to get the time info from the OS, right?
My system time on FreeNAS is correct, and my system time in the BIOS is also correct.
I'm in the PST (GMT-8), so it would appear that Slimwerver is grabbing GMT instead of my own timezone. How do I change this? I
Is there something simple I'm missing here?

Edit:

To answer my own question, it was something very simple
I just had to disable and then re-enable Slimserver and my Squeezebox grabbed the correct time