Problems with ubuntu 11.10

[reward01]

i am running ubuntu 11.10, i was able to get subsonic 4.6 to load (with some screaming from ubuntu's Software Center, message about; "The package is of bad quality", and it gives me the option to ignore and install, when i did that it installed, it appeared. But is nowhere to be found ). I then checked for updates & an update for Subsonic was found & installed. i have rebooted the system and i changed the port for Subsonic to 8081. if i try to access subsonic in chrome or firefox (using localhost:8081, 127.0.0.1:8081 or 192.168.1.5:8081) i get the message, "could not connect to "host":8081", in both browsers.

I have tried stopping & starting the subsonic service, and i do not get any errors returned from either of the commands. I have also checked for .log files in the /var/subsonic folder and the only .log file is subsonic_sh.log, but it is empty!

[ytechie]

Hmmm.... How did you change the ports?

[reward01]

i edited the SUBSONIC_ARGS variable in /etc/default/subsonic adding "--port=8081". And then restarted the service. I only changed the port because the port 4040 did not work either, so i just picked 8081, & because i use port 8080 with VLC Media Player at the moment.

[ytechie]

Firstly, when you say "added", you mean changed, right? Not that you added that argument in addition to the existing argument. Secondly, some applications use a range of prots for their communications. Double check to make sure that VLC isn't using port 8081 in addition to port 8080.

[reward01]

Yes, changed. Turned out not to change the port any way with that edit. Apparently that is not the directory Subsonic is actually looking in!

I got it working by finding the subsonic.sh file in the /usr/share/subsonic and starting it, then restarted the service. Once i did that I was able to connect, but had to use port 4040, instead of 8081 that was listed in the edited file.

i would have to say there are some definite issues with the 4.6 install on ubuntu 11.10. I do not believe it is starting automatically on boot up. Will have to check that out.

Thanks for your help!