mediatomb unable to create config file on start-up
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mediatomb (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: mediatomb
On a fresh install of mediatomb on Ubuntu 9.10 server (minimal install) the daemon is unable to create the config.xml file (and hence doesn't allow configuration via the web interface).
Manually attempting to start the daemon (sudo /etc/init.
2009-12-31 16:52:30 INFO: Loading configuration from: /etc/mediatomb/
2009-12-31 16:52:30 ERROR: read_text_file: could not open /etc/mediatomb/
This is _after_ I manually modified the directory ownership to mediatomb:
sudo chown -r mediatomb:mediatomb /etc/mediatomb
In short, the instructions on the following wiki page don't work:
http://
In addition, the install package is broken (this should work out-the-box).
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 31 16:37:46 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: mediatomb (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: mediatomb
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64
Note: This bug was submitted on a machine that differs from the machine that shows the bug - the bug was seen on a virtual machine running on the above machine.