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in trying a "fresh" install of the standalone version on a mac osx10.4 server (into /var/subsonic/standalone as described on the website), I came across the following error mentioned previously in this post:

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unable to access jarfile subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar

that error was the only thing listed in the subsonic_sh.log.
and the terminal gave the following message upon execution of the subsonic.sh script:

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readlink: illegal option --f
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
usage: dirname path
Started Subsonic [PID 6672, /var/subsonic/subsonic_sh.log]

but subsonic did not actually start.
I went into the new (4.0b1/4.0final) subsonic.sh script to see what had changed and the only major thing I found was the following code:

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cd $(dirname $0)
if [ -e /bin/readlink ] || [ -e /usr/bin/readlink ]; then
    cd $(dirname $(readlink -f $0))
fi

which took the place of the previous (3.9) code:

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cd 'dirname $0'

so I replaced that one section of the new script with the previous code and tried it again. everything started fine. . .

I mentioned this mainly in case anyone else has the same problem, and also for Sindre: i'm not sure what the new "cd $(dirname $0) . . . " section is meant to accomplish, but somehow it's preventing me from starting up subsonic. . . I'd be curious to hear an explanation of you have one! otherwise, the workaround seems to work fine. . .

correction!

the code from the 3.9 startup script is actually:

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cd `dirname $0`

and NOT

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cd 'dirname $0'

(note the slanted single quote in the correct version)

also: i should point out that I have no idea what I'm talking about... I just know that it seemed to fix something, I have no idea why. would love to hear any thoughts.

thx for the info,
the trick also worked for me

glad it helped... Sindre, can you enlighten us on what might be going on here?

dobson, what kind of OS are you running ?
im running freenas 0.7

i get the error on both my mac os x 10.4.9 server, as well as a 10.6.3 macbook pro (using the standalone installation...)

thank you VERY much for this. Working great now thanks to your find!

10.4.11 standalone

I have tried this with no luck. I still get the error:
Unable to access jarfile subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar

Any other suggestions?

what operating system and subsonic version are you using?

just to be sure... you did update your subsonic.sh startup script with the
replacement as mentioned in the second post here (using the angled single quotes above the tab key) right?

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cd `dirname $0`

Hi,

To solve your problem with

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Unable to access jarfile subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar

or

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dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.

please see my other post http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=15276#15276