I’m writing up notes similar to yours for how to setup the environment and then how to build the latest mediatomb. I want to thank your for you effort.

http://intellidick.com/wordpress/2008/12/30/building-mediatomb-for-the-drobo-using-ubunutu/

RockZors :

Well i built it and moved it all over to my drobo, in the droboapps folder. It was extracted but thats all i get, it wont run, or anything. I didnt get any errors during the compile, so im not sure where i went wrong.

The config page (:49521) wont work either

You think you could email my your latest build for testing purposes?

Sorry, but I don’t have my copy any more. I accidentally deleted it and haven’t rebuilt it yet. I’ve been super busy at work so I just haven’t had time to mess with it. I’ve also been using Xbox 360 to stream video and MediaTomb doesn’t support that anyway.

Did you put the startup scripts in the archive? Make sure you reboot your droboshare after you upload the archive as well. I’d also SSH into the droboshare and see if you can start it manually. While you’re there, check the process table to see if it’s running. If it is, then use Netstat to find the port. 49152 is the default but it can change unless you specify it in the configuration. It’s worth a look.

The config page (:49521) wont work either

You think you could email my your latest build for testing purposes?

RockZors :

I have been following this and im up at taglib time.
i get an error at the ./configure line

configure: error: C++ preprocessor… “/lib/cpp” fails sanity check See ‘config.log’ for more details.

and i dont know what im looking for… anyhelp?

Link to contents of file: http://www.textdump.com/v/?k=NTY2Ng==

I really want this to work cause i hate fuppes…

You might be having a copy and paste error. When you do the “prefix” and other commands on the configure line, you need two dashes in front of them. This blog theme messed them up when I posted this and put them as one dash instead of two.

Try that and see what happens. Good luck!

configure: error: C++ preprocessor… “/lib/cpp” fails sanity check See ‘config.log’ for more details.

and i dont know what im looking for… anyhelp?

Link to contents of file: http://www.textdump.com/v/?k=NTY2Ng==

I really want this to work cause i hate fuppes…

Bruce :

I got it to work eventually by specifying the ubuntu source in the debootstrap command as a final parameter (essentially added http://ubuntu…... to the end of your command). I’m not sure why I needed it, but the environment worked like a champ! I’ve now completed compiling MediaTomb and built a new dropbear that (while bigger) contains public-key authentication. Automated rsync of my music library to the Drobo and made available on my living room PlayStation is almost there….

Thanks for the blog!

So apparently the font I use in this theme has messed up some of the commands. It turned the double dash into a single dash and is incorrectly pasted to the terminal window. I was repeating my steps for a new post i’m about to do (uShare on the DroboShare) and I had the same issue.

The correct command has a double dash in front of the “variant” and “arch” words. The following example still won’t work in a copy/paste situation, but you’ll get the idea.
sudo debootstrap – -variant=buildd – -arch i386 intrepid /var/chroot/drobo

Sorry about that!

ekrunch :
The only thing I can think of is that you’re using an older version of Ubuntu and the intrepid build scripts aren’t there yet. You might try substituting the word “intrepid” for whatever the tag is for the release you’re running. If you’re using intrepid then you’re definitely missing a development package. I thought I had gotten them all in my instructions though.

I got it to work eventually by specifying the ubuntu source in the debootstrap command as a final parameter (essentially added http://ubuntu…... to the end of your command). I’m not sure why I needed it, but the environment worked like a champ! I’ve now completed compiling MediaTomb and built a new dropbear that (while bigger) contains public-key authentication. Automated rsync of my music library to the Drobo and made available on my living room PlayStation is almost there….

Thanks for the blog!