How to: Installing LMS 7.9 nightly in a FreeBSD jail on FreeNAS 9.3

[get.amped]

I have successfully built and am running the latest 7.9 nightly (1438870722) in a FreeBSD jail on FreeNAS FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201506292332 on an HP Microserver Gen8 with 10GB RAM, a 16GB flash drive, a 120GB Samsung SSD and 4 x 4TB WD Red HDs.

My goal was to have 10TB+ of lz4 storage for media and run LMS on the SSD. FreeNAS boots from the flash drive installed in the internal USB port, the SSD uses the ODD bay and SATA connector and the WD Reds are in the 4 drive trays.

I struggled with getting LMS to build working from the information in this thread and tried at least a half dozen times before I found the path. The following commands are exactly what I used as I went through the process successfully. You will have to adapt them to your directory/storage structures as appropriate. The key to getting it working was making sure the symbolic links to perl/perl5 were done/redone in both jails.

Create two jails: one to build LMS and one to run it. Use Advanced mode, enter the IPv4 default gateway and check VIMAGE.

In build_LMS jail:

pkg update
pkg upgrade
pkg install bash
pkg install gmake
pkg install rsync
pkg install nasm
pkg install wget
pkg install libgd
mkdir /tmp/LMS
cd /tmp/LMS
wget http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/7.9/sc/292fd1e/logitechmediaserver-7.9.0-1438870722.tgz
tar xf logitechmediaserver-7.9.0-1438870722.tgz
git clone https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver-vendor -b public/7.9
ln -s -f /usr/local/bin/perl5.20.2 /usr/bin/perl
ln -s -f /usr/local/bin/perl5.20.2 /usr/bin/perl5
cd /tmp/LMS/slimserver-vendor/CPAN
./buildme.sh | tee /tmp/LMS/buildme.sh.log
cd /tmp/LMS/logitechmediaserver-7.9.0-1438870722/CPAN/arch/5.20
cp -Rp /tmp/LMS/slimserver-vendor/CPAN/build/arch/5.20/amd64-freebsd-thread-multi .
rm -rf i386-linux-thread-multi
rm -rf i386-linux-thread-multi-64int
rm -rf x86_64-linux-thread-multi
cd ..
rm -rf 5.8
rm -rf 5.10
rm -rf 5.12
rm -rf 5.14
rm -rf 5.16
rm -rf 5.18
cd /tmp/LMS
tar cf logitechmediaserver-7.9.0-1438870722_with_fbsd.tar logitechmediaserver-7.9.0-1438870722

In FreeNAS shell:

cp /mnt/SSD/jails/build_jail/tmp/LMS/logitechmediaserver-7.9.0-1438870722_with_fbsd.tar /mnt/SSD/jails/LMS/tmp

In LMS jail:

pkg update
pkg upgrade
pw groupadd -n lms -g 30001
pw useradd -n lms -u 30001 -g lms -s /usr/sbin/nologin -c "Logitech Media Server" -d /nonexistent
mkdir /usr/local/lms
tar xf /tmp/logitechmediaserver-7.9.0-1438870722_with_fbsd.tar -C /usr/local/lms
mv /usr/local/lms/logitechmediaserver-7.9.0-1438870722/* /usr/local/lms
rmdir /usr/local/lms/logitechmediaserver-7.9.0-1438870722
chown -R lms:lms /usr/local/lms
rm /usr/bin/perl
rm /usr/bin/perl5
ln -s -f /usr/local/bin/perl5.20.2 /usr/bin/perl
ln -s -f /usr/local/bin/perl5.20.2 /usr/bin/perl5

I created an additional storage source /mnt/SSD/lms_data with destination /mnt/lmsdata and set permissions:

chown -R lms:lms /mnt/lms_data/cache
chown -R lms:lms /mnt/lms_data/prefs

Create startup file: lms

This is trickier than it looks because it can't have any extra white space. I suggest getting it here:

http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=jtuvqvEJ

Follow the instructions in the file.

mv lms /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
chown root:wheel /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lms
chmod 555 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lms
echo 'lms_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'lms_cachedir="/mnt/lms_data/cache"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'lms_prefsdir="/mnt/lms_data/prefs"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'lms_playlistdir="/mnt/Playlists"' >> /etc/rc.conf

Restart your jail and try to connect to http://yourjailIP:9000

[Roland0]

While I have no clue about FreeBSD, I'm not convinced this is a good idea:

ln -s -f /usr/local/bin/perl5.20.2 /usr/bin/perl
ln -s -f /usr/local/bin/perl5.20.2 /usr/bin/perl5

It seems you are overwriting the system perl, which could result in a number of problems (both in operation and when the system perl is upgraded)
You could have a look at the howto mentioned in my signature for a different approach (just don't build your own perl, use the one in /usr/local)

[get.amped]

While I have no clue about FreeBSD, I'm not convinced this is a good idea:


It seems you are overwriting the system perl, which could result in a number of problems (both in operation and when the system perl is upgraded)
You could have a look at the howto mentioned in my signature for a different approach (just don't build your own perl, use the one in /usr/local)

Probably a real concern if it were the actual system perl. But everything is in a self-contained, virtualized environment ("jail" in FreeNAS), and there's won't be any updates. The whole jail exists for the sole purpose of running LMS completely isolated from FreeNAS.

[pufnstuf]

Thanks get.amped, I used your method and all is working well. My library is mostly FLAC but I did have to install the FAAD port to get any m4a tracks to transcode and play.

It runs fast and smooth - so much better than trying to run in a virtualbox jail.

What will be required to keep LMS updated?

[get.amped]

Thanks get.amped, I used your method and all is working well. My library is mostly FLAC but I did have to install the FAAD port to get any m4a tracks to transcode and play.

It runs fast and smooth - so much better than trying to run in a virtualbox jail.

What will be required to keep LMS updated?

I have had that same question

It should be a reduced set of the same instructions. First take a snapshot of your jails so you can revert back to them if everything goes horribly wrong. Then, in the build jail, wget the nightly, git the source, run buildme.sh, clean up the unneeded versions, tar it, cp it to the LMS jail, untar it and mv the files into usr/local/lms.

At least that's what I'm going to try when I want to get a more recent nightly. Anyone with more Linux skills than I please chime in if there's a better/easier way.

And I didn't even think about the FAAD port for m4a tracks. I don't have many (and almost never play them anyway) but I should probably go ahead and do that as well.

[Roland0]

It should be a reduced set of the same instructions. First take a snapshot of your jails so you can revert back to them if everything goes horribly wrong. Then, in the build jail, wget the nightly, git the source, run buildme.sh, clean up the unneeded versions, tar it, cp it to the LMS jail, untar it and mv the files into usr/local/lms.

You only need to do the build step if the version of one of the binary CPAN modules changes, which happens very rarely (< once a year), so you can nearly always skip this step
Getting the nightly and checking out is also unnecessary, one of the two is enough. Keeping the checked out version locally (not in /tmp) and only updating (git pull) is a lot more efficient the downloading everything every time.
The most convenient way is to run LMS directly from the checked out repository (which should exclude Bin/ and CPAN/arch, where you will have your own binaries instead), then a simple git pull will bring you up to date

[Roland0]

My library is mostly FLAC but I did have to install the FAAD port to get any m4a tracks to transcode and play.

iirc, if you use regular faad instead of the patched version provided by Logitech, seeking in AAC files (and maybe some other stuff) will not work