[Solved] Fedora 17, serviio and permissions

Serviio is unable to read my library. Even when I run the serviio-console as root, I still get the following error:

2012-09-22 10:04:13,110 WARN [LibraryAdditionsCheckerThread] Folder '/home/pgaiger/Videos' is either not an existing directory or cannot be read due to access rights

I have tried changing ownership, etc and still receive the same error. Running Fedora 17 with the following:

ffmpeg version 0.10.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jul 20 2012 22:00:57 with gcc 4.7.0 20120507 (Red Hat 4.7.0-5)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --datadir=/usr/share/ffmpeg --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --arch=x86_64 --extra-cflags='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' --enable-bzlib --disable-crystalhd --enable-gnutls --enable-libass --enable-libcdio --enable-libcelt --enable-libdc1394 --disable-indev=jack --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-openal --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab --enable-avfilter --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --disable-debug --disable-stripping --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-runtime-cpudetect
libavutil 51. 35.100 / 51. 35.100
libavcodec 53. 61.100 / 53. 61.100
libavformat 53. 32.100 / 53. 32.100
libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100
libavfilter 2. 61.100 / 2. 61.100
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 6.100 / 0. 6.100
libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100

Linux mako.gaigernet 3.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 29 18:46:34 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Despite many hours of searching for the results to this problem, I have been unsuccessful.

Thanks.

Pete

[will]

Make sure the user that you run serviio.sh as has access (the console just connects to a local RESTful web server)

Thanks for the quick reply. Serviio.sh is being run as root. I have tried to add serviio user to wheel, as well as the group belonging to the username of the file owners. It has me stumped.

[will]

Can you post a detail log please (see sig).

Here is the log (attached) as requested. Thanks.

Pete

*Bump*

Anyone?

[zip]

What Will said.... can you su to the serviio user (assuming it's what you're using according to the user dir: /opt/serviio) and see if you can read files from the shared dirs?

Exactly the same. Ran it as root as mentioned before, now ran it as user serviio. Same error. Folder cannot be read. Makes no sense.

I ensured that the directory mentioned in the log had the correct permissions (no restrictions) and that there was not a typo:

pgaiger@mako Music$ pwd
/home/pgaiger/Music

[Elwell]

OK, I'm running serviio on Fed 17 without any permissions issues -- what do you have selinux configured as though
$ getenforce
should tell you -- I tend to run in Permissive rather than enforcing on my NAS (as I have other apps I've not done selinux configs for yet)

if you want to (temporarily) disable selinux, 'setenforce permissive' will do, then you can check the logs
# less /var/log/audit/audit.log

for related warnings

Elwell,

Thanks. I have been running in permissive the whole time.

whenever I install RedHat based linux, the first thing I always do after installing is disable selinux. This thing is more trouble than it's worth. Especially in a home environment where we don't need that kind of security.

So here is what I have found:

I followed the directions here: http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=how ... all:fedora

When I run the service that I created, there is insufficient rights to read the directory in the user "pgaiger"'s home. If I kill the service and run /opt/serviio/bin/serviio.sh as root from a terminal, it works fine. I have added the user "serviio" to wheel, the the pgaiger group and even added it to root. Still, it doesn't work when run as the service. Sadly, I am very close to abandon. Any more suggestions based on this info? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

P.

I too have the same problem. I can't seem to be able to stream via mediabrowser unless i run serviio as root. All the videos give me a 200 error saying it can't find the stream when I let the system launch it. Anyone figure this out yet?

This is unbelievable. I have still not got this to work properly based on the instructions here: http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=how ... all:fedora

I have been starting the server as root every time I want serviio to run. Tragic. I have tried everything that I know, researched like mad, requested help on irc, etc.

Do I just abandon?

Please flag as solved and consider updating the incomplete instructions on the wiki.

Change permissions in media directory as following example:

chmod 750 /home/username/Videos/ (or whatever the path to your media is)