Hi Benoît, sorry for snoozing on this issue.
My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this: ------------------------------------------------- # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp ------------------------------------------------- At first it seemed setting the listening_ip in the conf worked. This seems to be an undocumented feature, since the only way to set this should be as a parameter when starting the daemon (i.e. in /etc/defaults/minidlna), according to the documentation. However, after doing that, I could not reproduce the problem. Even if I removed this addition to the conf, the daemon started successfully. This leaves me thinking of two possible cases: 1) My original research was just sloppy, and I only read /var/log/boot to see if the daemon started. Like reported originally that information seems to be unreliable. If I ps for the actual process, it now seems to always start. 2) There's been a change to my system. Perhaps one of the daemons starting between network and minidlna now takes a bit longer, and therefore things work OK. I guess such a timing issue would be platform dependent (or even NIC dependent?) and hard to track down. I was somewhat waiting to confirm that there was no problem when a new version came out, but if that's not planned, maybe it's better to close this and reopen if it resurfaces. My understanding is that the 1.0.21+dfsg-1.1 update did not change anything relating to this issue. Greets, Anders 2012/2/14 Benoît Knecht <benoit.kne...@fsfe.org> > tags 640146 moreinfo > thanks > > Hi Anders, > > Benoît Knecht wrote: > > Anders Olsson wrote: > > > Minidlna fails to start at boot. There are messages indicating a > > > problem in the boot log (see below). Starting manually after the > > > system has fully booted works fine (using /etc/init.d/minidlna start). > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > The contents of /var/log/boot: > > > > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:22 2011: Setting parameters of disc: (none). > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:22 2011: Activating swap...done. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:22 2011: Checking root file system...fsck from > > > util-linux-ng 2.17.2 > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:22 2011: e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:22 2011: /dev/sda3: clean, 49899/610800 files, > > > 477160/2441406 blocks (check in 2 mounts) > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:22 2011: done. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:22 2011: Loading kernel modules...done. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:22 2011: Cleaning up ifupdown.... > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:22 2011: Setting up networking.... > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:23 2011: Activating lvm and md swap...done. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:23 2011: Checking file systems...fsck from > util-linux-ng 2.17.2 > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:23 2011: e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:23 2011: /dev/sda1: clean, 17/64 files, 1281/62500 > blocks > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:23 2011: e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:28 2011: /dev/sda4: clean, 73456/121462784 files, > > > 288187642/485827854 blocks > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:28 2011: done. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:28 2011: Mounting local filesystems...done. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:30 2011: Activating swapfile swap...done. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:30 2011: Cleaning up temporary files.... > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:31 2011: Setting kernel variables ...done. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:31 2011: Configuring network interfaces...done. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:31 2011: Cleaning up temporary files.... > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:32 2011: Setting sensors limits. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:32 2011: INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:32 2011: Using makefile-style concurrent boot in > runlevel 2. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:33 2011: Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:33 2011: Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:34 2011: Starting periodic command scheduler: cron. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:34 2011: Starting system message bus: dbus. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:34 2011: Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:35 2011: Starting internet superserver: inetd. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:36 2011: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:36 2011: Starting the Winbind daemon: winbind. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:36 2011: Starting web server: lighttpd. > > > Thu Sep 1 21:52:38 2011: [2011/09/01 21:52:38] minidlna.c:762: No IP > > > address automatically detected! > > > > Well you somehow don't have an IP configured yet at this point. How is > > your network interface configured? You should be able to work around > > this by using the 'listening_ip' option in /etc/minidlna.conf. > > Have you investigated further? Did you check if your network interface > gets an IP before minidlna starts? Does setting 'listening_ip' in > /etc/minidlna.conf help? > > Cheers, > > -- > Benoît Knecht >
