1.6 Pro not showing on devices

Hi,

Serviio 1.9
Lubuntu 15.10

I installed Serviio 1.6 a few weeks ago and everything was working fine, I could see it from all my devices and videos were playing normally. Now, I tested it a few weeks later and I can't access it from any of my devices. I think it might have something to do with the fact that the console is still showing "Serviio PRO v 1.6" and "Evaluation license Expires in 14 days" even though it's several weeks since it has been installed. It doesn't seem to be reverting to the free version. I was thinking to buy the Pro, just to support for future development, as I like Serviio a lot. But if I can't get it to work, there doesn't seem to be much point in paying for it, just to see if that solves the problem.

I have attached the detailed log, but I can't see anything in there that seems to be a problem except the licence.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Christopher.

There is one other thing that I did, that I don't know if it makes a difference. I installed Samba on my Lubuntu and put a password. But there doesn't seem to be a problem with seeing the files, just accessing from the devices.

Please let me know if this could cause the problem.

Thanks,

Christopher.

[zip]

So you can see Serviio, and the categories, but no files in them?

Petr,

Thanks for replying. No I can't even see serviio on the devices. It's weird because it was working fine and the same day I did the last bit of the install instructions to start the service and it worked for a bit. But it's not showing at all on the devices.

Thanks in advance,

Christopher.

[zip]

So for the licence to work, it looks like the serviio user doesn't have write access to its home directory (?).

Errors like

  Code:

WARN  [prefs] Couldn't flush user prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: Couldn't get file lock.

Not sure if it can affect other things, but worth trying to fix it first.

Also make sure the user has write access to the temp folder /tmp

Thanks again Petr.

I created the user without a home directory because it said to do that in the install instructions for Ubuntu 15.04 (which is the newest one I could find).

Quote:
"There are various ways to install Serviio, but this installs it in /opt and runs it as user serviio. The useradd option -r creates a system account and does not create a home directory. This will result in warnings in serviio.log, but there seems to be no ill effect. The first line logs in as root to make a few things easier:"

Thanks again,

Christopher.

Petr,

Sorry to waste your time, it's the firewall. I didn't think it was that because I had disabled it and I still couldn't see serviio from the devices. But I disabled it now and rebooted and everything is working like it should. I should have guessed it was a network problem as serviio was working fine on the PC, just nothing on the devices. Thanks ever-so-much for your help, sorry it was a wild goose chase.

Christopher.