mt-daapd - memory issue

[Rejan]

Hi, I have installed mt-daapd and get this message when I try to start it:
Could not open songs database (/opt/var/mt-daapd/songs.gdb): Cannot allocate memory

The mt-daapd doesn't start, does anyone have any idea why?
I have had the package installed earlier on my 700gE but now it seems like it will not work.

Appreciate any input on this problem.

Regards, Rejan

[eitsch]

which user is configured to have r/w permissions on this file?

change the permissions (temporary) to xrw (with unix cmd chmod 777 songs.db) to eliminate such problems

...

greets

[Rejan]

which user is configured to have r/w permissions on this file?

change the permissions (temporary) to xrw (with unix cmd chmod 777 songs.db) to eliminate such problems

...

greets

No luck with that, still same problem.

/Rejan

[xmeister]

Try running mt-daapd from command line with the following flags:
/opt/sbin/mt-daapd -f -r -d 9 -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

-f Runs mt-daapd in forground, this way you can see all steps during execution to stdout
-r rebuilds the song database - maybe it's corrupt?
-d 9 turns debug logging on to level 9 (max level)
-c path to configuration file. This assumes the default install of mt-daapd config file.

Logging information is stored in /var/log/mt-daapd.log.

X

[Rejan]

Try running mt-daapd from command line with the following flags:
/opt/sbin/mt-daapd -f -r -d 9 -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

-f Runs mt-daapd in forground, this way you can see all steps during execution to stdout
-r rebuilds the song database - maybe it's corrupt?
-d 9 turns debug logging on to level 9 (max level)
-c path to configuration file. This assumes the default install of mt-daapd config file.

Logging information is stored in /var/log/mt-daapd.log.

X

Got following result:
Read web_root: /opt/share/mt-daapd/admin-root
Read port: 3689
Read admin_pw: mypassword
Read db_dir: /opt/var/mt-daapd
Read mp3_dir: /shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/Music/iPod
Read servername: NSLU2 Music
Read runas: myuser
Read playlist: /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.playlist
Read extensions: .mp3,.m4a,.m4p
Read rescan_interval: 600
Read always_scan: 0
Checking existence of /shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/Music/iPod
Checking existence of /opt/var/mt-daapd
Starting rendezvous daemon
Could not open songs database (/opt/var/mt-daapd/songs.gdb): Cannot allocate memory

Did not get the logfil in the specified directory

/Rejan

[xmeister]

Well, only other thing I can think of is to rename opt/var/mt-daapd/songs.gdb to something else so it can't find it and it might try and rebuild. How big is this file? Maybe it legitimitally can't open it.

Also if it is some sort of permissions issue try changing your runas user in the mt-daapd.config file to root (only temporarily of course).

X

[Rejan]

Well, only other thing I can think of is to rename opt/var/mt-daapd/songs.gdb to something else so it can't find it and it might try and rebuild. How big is this file? Maybe it legitimitally can't open it.

Also if it is some sort of permissions issue try changing your runas user in the mt-daapd.config file to root (only temporarily of course).

X

Done that, deleted the file and got it recreated, ran as root nothing seems to work. My guess is that the package dependencies has change since I had it installed earlier, perhaps gdbm? I have tried earlier packages of mt-daapd but no luck there either.

/Rejan

[tsp]

I got the same error.
ipkg install gdbm -force-reinstall
fixed it

[bugmenot]

Thanks to tsp.
I had the same problem like Rejan and your command resolved the problem.

"ipkg install gdbm -force-reinstall"
fixed it

Thanks again

[bugmenot]

I was wrong the first time.
The solution is to remove mt-daapd and all dependencies first and than reinstall mt-daapd again. Reconfigure your confs or save them before

Remove mt-daapd with dependencies:
ipkg remove mt-daapd (Enter)
ipkg remove gdbm -force-depends (Enter)
ipkg remove libid3tag -force-depends (Enter)

Reinstall mt-daapd:
ipkg install mt-daapd (Enter)

During the installation of mt-daapd you can see that it automatically reinstalls the removed dependencies.

Good Luck