Subsonic Forum

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 1:21 am**

Hi everyone, let me first say i have been trying to figure this out for a few days and have read several pages about the login error page that is know as 503. I'm just looking foir a little help to actually get this up and running as i have never even seen the setup page or played with this before.

Let me first say i have tried to install this on an open media vault server.
The guide to install was posted on there forums and i have asked for help there and think it's more of a subsonic issue as the service runs, i just can't load the default page located at 192.168.1.136:4040

As I'm new too subsonic i figured it best if i start with the subsonic log file and if no experincied subsonic user can find any issue's in my log then maybe it's not the fault of subsonic.

log:

SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:4040

http://localhost:4040/

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:43 am**

The error here is clearly written in the log: the Subsonic booter can't unzip the file containing the actual Subsonic server code. (java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file /usr/share/subsonic/subsonic.war)

Now this is a little weird if the /usr/share/subsonic/subsonic.war file is accessible, permissions are set, and it's not corrupted and everything.

Reading on forums like Stackoverflow for ideas brings up this one experience: "I've seen this exception before when whatever the JVM considers to be a temp directory is not accessible due to not being there or not having permission to write".

Now we don't know if this is the actual reason in your case (we only have the can't-unzip error message) but it's worth trying!

To set a different temp directory for Java to use instead of the typical "/tmp" or "/var/tmp" you could alter your subsonic.sh start script and add another -D parameter to the list like this:

Code: Select all: java -Djava.io.tmpdir=/path/to/tmpdir

But no guarantees that it'll work.. I'm just explaining how I would reason.

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 3:59 pm**

Thanks for the reply,
Let me first say I'm not an expert or even an advance user with linux.

so how do i add java -Djava.io.tmpdir=/path/to/tmpdir, can i just run this code in terminal?

or is it more involved?

Thanks again for the suggestion.

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 4:19 pm**

You have a shell file of some sort that starts Subsonic, right? Probably called subsonic.sh or something like that.

Now, if you open this file with a text editor it should contain an instruction like this:

Code: Select all: java -Xmx150m -cp Java/subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar -Dsubsonic.httpsPort=0 -Dsubsonic.port=4040 -Dsubsonic.war=subsonic.war (...)

What I mean is that you want to add another -D argument, like:

Code: Select all: java -Xmx150m -cp Java/subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar -Djava.io.tmpdir=/path/to/tmpdir -Dsubsonic.httpsPort=0 -Dsubsonic.port=4040 -Dsubsonic.war=subsonic.war (...)

.. and point it to some /path/to/tmpdir where you have confirmed that the user running the script has permissions to write (and thereby rights to extract the subsonic.war file, which happens to be a zip file).

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:52 pm**

Ok the script i use is from open media vault, so when i run the command to start the install script it's called omv.sh.

So i downloaded the file and opened it in windows using notepad++.

Rather than posting the whole .sh file i have found and included the part for subsonic. near the top it shows it being downloaded to /tmp folder.

install_SUB ()
{
/etc/init.d/subsonic stop > /dev/null 2>&1
screen;
cd /tmp
echo
echo "****************You selected to install SubSonic*********************";
echo
echo "Downloading and installing SubSonic...";
echo "This one takes some time, please wait...";
aptitude -y -q install openjdk-6-jre > /dev/null 2>&1
#lame flac faad vorbis-tools ffmpeg > /dev/null 2>&1
wget 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/subsonic/files/subsonic/4.7.beta3/subsonic-4.7.beta3.deb' -O ./subsonic-4.7.beta3.deb > /dev/null 2>&1
sudo dpkg -i subsonic-4.7.beta3.deb > /dev/null 2>&1
echo "Setting up startup options"
/etc/init.d/subsonic stop > /dev/null 2>&1
sleep 5
rm subsonic-4.7.beta3.deb
/etc/init.d/subsonic start > /dev/null 2>&1
echo "Finished"
sleep 1
}

install_cp ()
{
service CouchPotato stop > /dev/null 2>&1
screen;
cd /tmp
if [ -f /etc/init.d/cpinit ]; then
service cpinit stop > /dev/null 2>&1
rm /etc/init.d/cpinit
update-rc.d -f cpinit remove
fi
echo

sorry for being so new, and i do appreciate your help.

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:13 pm**

I guess the "cd /tmp" is just for the installation process, though? To place the new subsonic install file in a temporary directory?

Is "/etc/init.d/subsonic" a binary file or a script? I'm a bit lost here, don't know exactly how open media fault packages thing for you. Try opening /etc/init.d/subsonic in a text editor and see what it actually does.

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 10:20 pm**

well i opened it and heres a copy of what it says, i used pico.

http://subsonic.org

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 10:35 pm**

hakko wrote:You have a shell file of some sort that starts Subsonic, right? Probably called subsonic.sh or something like that.

Code: Select all
java -Xmx150m -cp Java/subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar -Djava.io.tmpdir=/path/to/tmpdir -Dsubsonic.httpsPort=0 -Dsubsonic.port=4040 -Dsubsonic.war=subsonic.war (...)

.. and point it to some /path/to/tmpdir where you have confirmed that the user running the script has permissions to write (and thereby rights to extract the subsonic.war file, which happens to be a zip file).

ok sorry im i little slow, yes it's a shell file, subsonic.sh is located in /usr/share/subsonic/

now i open my ssh connection with putty on windows, i log in as root. so i should have access to all directories. i can also see that the subsonic.deb file is coming from the http://sourceforge.net/projects/subsoni ... 4.7.beta3/, so i would assume it's not corrupt.

Maybe changing the permissions on file:/usr/share/subsonic/subsonic.war!, as this is where the error is. can this be done?

Posted: **Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:42 pm**

ok i was looking over the files and thought i could just manually extract the subsonic.war file to the proper directory.

so i first thought lets view the archive and ran jar tvf /usr/share/subsonic/subsonic.war

this gives me a -bash: jar: command not found

so i ran java -version

this shows version java version "1.6.0_18"

So im thinking it's a java issue.

Posted: **Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:50 am**

Thanks for the help hakko.

I resolved the issue with help from you and another user from the omv forum.

it appears it was a java issue.

here's the steps i used to fix the issue.

Thanks again.

I have a quick question about folders, as var is on my system drive and thats a small drive, how do i change the music folder on a different drive?

I tried /dev/sds1/music, but that does not work.

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