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Thom,
Well, I guess I am going to have to live with it as I really don't know any C++. Its not a huge problem, just an annoyance really. Thanks for the reply though.

Rob

tschak909,
Thanks for the reply. Any thoughts on how to do that? I'm moderately capable on command line, but not a programmer.

Rob

posde,
Thanks for the response,
Is there something I can grep in DCERouter.log? Not sure what I am looking for...

Rob

Armor Gnome,
Ok, I feel a little stupid. Never saw that up there after all these years. Thanks for pointing that out Armor Gnome, you never stop learning I guess.

posde,
on 2. this happens on Orbiter start (web-orbiters, windows orbiters, etc.) , MD's are always on. Same deal?

Rob

Apologies if this has been answered, but I couldn't find a similar question after some searches. I have recently upgraded to 10.04 and everything is working fine except for this. Basically, whenever I do a quick reload on the core, all the orbiters show music sorted by Album. I then have to go into each orbiter, go to Audio, select Other, then change Album to Performer, then hit go. It is then good until the next quick reload. This is impacting the WAF. Also, it seems like every time I start an orbiter, it always asks me if I want to quick reload because something has changed, even though I haven't changed anything.

So 2 questions:
1. Is there a way to default the sort on Audio to Performer instead of album.
2. Is there a way to debug why the orbiters always want to quick reload whenever they start. Is this expected behavior?

Thanks in advance for your help on this.

Rob

Well, I booted into a live cd and the xfs_repair failed. Bummer. So I guess I am rebuilding from scratch.

Thanks for the help Posde!

Rob

Posde,
Thanks for the response. So I went to the web admin, advanced->configuration->RAID->advanced and at the bottom of the Device Info section check "disabled", hit save. Go to a terminal do "sudo umount -f /dev/md0" run "sudo mount" and /dev/md0 is still showing as mounted. Am I doing something wrong?

Rob

Hi All,
I had a problem with my RAID array last night where a couple of my drives just disappeared. I went and unplugged and re-plugged in all the drives and now they show up. I had to do a "mdadm --create" to get the drives back in the array for some reason. In any event, the array now shows up in the web admin as "OK" with 4 drives. The problem now is that the XFS file system seems borked. I get I/O errors when I try to write to the array, but it reads fine. It appears I need to unmount the RAID array and run xfs_repair, but when I do a "umount -f /mnt/device/163" it appears that the array is still mounted. Is LinuxMCE remounting the array after a umount? If so, how do I umount it so I can run xfs_repair?

Rob

Update #2:
Ok it looks like I forgot Rule Number 1

Although the Raid is still showing as FAILED, since changing to Use LMCE's Directory Structure, there is now a link in /home/public/data/pictures and there is no longer a link in /home/public/data/other. So I had to do a Delete All Missing Files from Database on /home/public/data/other and Resync the /home/public/data/pictures etc. I will be more patient

Rob

update:
So I am still having issues with this. A link is still not being created in /home/public/data/pictures. And I am getting some weirdness in the web admin. The Software Raid 5 is showing that it is "failed" under State. Even though mdadm shows it is "clean". I did change the PK_users to "Use Linuxmce's directory structure" however all the child devices (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc) are all showing as "REMOVED". Should I try deleting the Software RAID 5 device and starting over?

Rob

JaseP, Thanks for helping! I have windows orbiters running in wine and windows as well as web orbiters running on android tablets and phones.

Is there a way to tell why the link in /home/public/data/pictures? Would that be logged somewhere?

Rob

Hi All,
I have been looking around for a possible solution to this and am hoping that I can get some help.
I found an old thread that describes my issue pretty well, but I can't seem to get it to work (http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,6889.0.html). I had an issue where I had mounted a raid array as my home directory. I was told that that was a no-no. So I have since unmounted the raid array from /home (/home is just on the boot drive) the raid array is now just hanging out there. After a reboot, it was seen by linuxmce and mounted on /mnt/devices/149 and /home/public/data/other/Software Raid 5 [149]. Once that was done the mp3 and video files sync'd fine, however, no symlink was created for the pictures directory in /home/public/data/pictures.  There is only a symlink for flickr there. As an FYI the directory structure on the mounted raid was /mnt/devices/149/public/data/pictures.

So I tried deleting the raid array in web admin. Then ran sudo mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf  as the uuid's were different in the mdadm.conf file. (As per this page: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Create_RAID_in_LMCE) Once I did that, the web admin found the array, renumbered it device 163 and it started scanning the media on the device. The problem is there is still no symlink to /mnt/devices/163/public/data/pictures in /home/public/data/pictures and the images are not showing up in the orbiters. Also, none of the orbiters asked if I should use the new device, nor if it should use Linuxmce Directory structure or be public.

Long story short, in the 2008 post, there was a mention that permissions could be an issue,

Here is what the permissions are for /mnt/device/163/public:
drwxrwsr-x  3 myuser       public           17 2012-08-30 07:31 public

/mnt/device/163/public/data
drwxrwsr-x 22 myuser public 4096 2012-08-22 19:52 data

/mnt/device/163/public/data/pictures
drwxrwsr-x 161 myuser public  8192 2012-08-30 20:27 pictures

Thoughts on how to resolve this?

Thanks,
Rob

Ok, so I have been doing it this way since the pluto days, guess I missed the part about the software raid stuff. So I guess the question is, How can this be fixed? If I remove the mount to /home (copy over all the relevant . directories to the new /home) clear the database as per these instructions http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,6408.msg84357.html#msg84357, and let linuxmce find the files, do you think that will work or am I looking at a full reinstall?

Thoughts?
DoTheDog

Posde,
Thanks for the reply but I think I'm not understanding. On my core, I have 3 TB RAID 5 array /dev/md0 that is mounted on /home. So using the normal LinuxMCE structure, it looks like /home/public/data/audio/Artist/Album/. On every reboot, it does try to create a /home/public/data/other/Software RAID [xxx] which is linked to /dev/md0. The problem with that is, the Update Media Daemon now finds two of every file and every song shows up twice on the orbiters. So to fix that I went into the web admin, Advanced->Configuration->Devices and deleted the Software RAID from the Core/Hybrid.

So the issue is the behavior is a little odd. If I go into the web admin Media Files Sync. All the directories are in /home/public/data/audio are shown as "Only Exists on Disk". The directories and files below that are fine. However, the new files that I put in, two new albums, the files show that LinuxMCE doesn't know what to do with them and I get a "Select File Type". If I select LinuxMCE Audio File it goes in and shows a checkmark in web admin. But it doesn't show up in the Orbiters. If I go back to  web admin, the check marks are all gone again. This is really odd. Any way we can trouble shoot this?

DoTheDog

Posde,
Thanks for the help on this. So now I have just added two albums to my raid array that is mounted on /home. For whatever reason, if I go in through the web admin and resynchronize the directory it will show up in the orbiters, but after a while, it disappears again. Also, when I go back into the web admin media file sync menu, ALL of my directories are showing up as "Exists Only on disk". Even though they are showing up in the orbiters. I have gone to my Core and on CTL-ALT-F2 I have logged in and cd /home/public/data/audio. Is that what you mean by changing to the raid dir? Or do I have to do it in a Term?

DoTheDog