Distribution is Debian 7.7.
I have installed minidlna, but I have problem with the start
of minidlna at the boot time, although there are correct links
in rc?.d directories.
After boot I can start minidlna without any problem. Simple

sudo /etc/init.d/minidlna start

will do the job. After this manual start, minidlna is working ok.

Hi,

are any error messages logged to indicate why minidlna is failing to start? Also, can you really confirm that the links really are correct. Eg the output of:
Finally, can you confirm that you are using sysvinit?

Evo2.

Hi,
Output of ls -l /etc/rc*.d/*minidlna is:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 4 16:32 /etc/rc0.d/K01minidlna -> ../init.d/minidlna
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 4 16:32 /etc/rc1.d/K01minidlna -> ../init.d/minidlna
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 4 16:32 /etc/rc2.d/S22minidlna -> ../init.d/minidlna
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 4 16:32 /etc/rc3.d/S22minidlna -> ../init.d/minidlna
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 4 16:32 /etc/rc4.d/S22minidlna -> ../init.d/minidlna
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 4 16:32 /etc/rc5.d/S22minidlna -> ../init.d/minidlna
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 4 16:32 /etc/rc6.d/K01minidlna -> ../init.d/minidlna

runlevel is 2.
I don'd know what you mean by sysvinit. I am using init version installed by debian.

Pythagorasmk

Hi,
That seems to be ok. Did you check /var/log/minidlna.log? Also, does

Ok, then presumably you are using sysvinit. Can you confirm that you are able to start it using invoke-rc.d? Eg
Evo2.

> Did you check /var/log/minidlna.log?
Log file is empty.

> Can you confirm that you are able to start it using invoke-rc.d?
yes I can confirm that.

Pythagorasmk

Hi,
That is peculiar. I suggest you increase the logging verbosity. Eg in your /etc/minidlna.conf set
Ok. Is there anything out of the ordinary about your setup? Are you using the standard minidlna from wheezy? Nothing strange in your /etc/default/minidlna or /etc/minidlna.conf?

Evo2.

Here is the content of /var/log/minidlna.log, after manual start with 'invoke-rc.d minidlna start' and after I have added log_level=debug:

[2014/11/05 03:35:07] minidlna.c:898: warn: Starting MiniDLNA version 1.0.24 [SQLite 3.7.13].
[2014/11/05 03:35:07] inotify.c:195: warn: WARNING: Inotify max_user_watches [8192] is low or close to the number of used watches [2] and I do not have permission to increase this limit. Please do so manually by writing a higher value into /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches.
[2014/11/05 03:35:07] minidlna.c:1006: warn: HTTP listening on port 8200

I am using the standard minidlna from wheezy. The only changes in minidlna.conf are media_dir and friendly_name. There are no changes in /etc/default/minidlna.

Hi,

ok, it seems to start normally. This is somewhat puzzling to me. Do you see any messages on the console when you when you start it, or at boot? If not it may be worthwhile setting "VERBOSE=yes" in /etc/default/rcS and trying again.

Evo2.

> This is somewhat puzzling to me.
even more for me
> Do you see any messages on the console when you when you start it, or at boot?
No.
> If not it may be worthwhile setting "VERBOSE=yes" in /etc/default/rcS and trying again.
I have set "VERBOSE=yes" but there are no changes, either in messages when I am starting
minidlna, either in the log file.

Hi,

I think you need to work out if /etc/init.d/minidlna is actually being called at boot time and then failing to start the daemon for some reason, or if it is not being called. I'm don't know the best way to do this...

Evo2.

Hi,

> I think you need to work out if /etc/init.d/minidlna is actually being called at boot time ...
I have added 'echo "bla bla ..." > /aaa.txt' at the beginning of the /etc/init.d/minidlna, and after reboot there was a file /aaa.txt, so the script is called at boot time.

> ... and then failing to start the daemon for some reason
There must be some service or somethig else that /etc/init.d/minidlna is expecting to be running when the script is called, but that service is not started for some reason. I don't know how to check this.

Pythagorasmk