Ubuntu server 22.04 LTS minimserver will not start automatically

[simoncn]

Thanks for this. Please also post the output from these commands:

Code:

pwd
ls -al ~

[AudioDoctor]

jason@musicserver:~$ pwd
/home/jason
jason@musicserver:~$ ls -al ~
total 40
drwxrwx--- 6 jason jason 4096 May 27 18:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 25 23:33 ..
-rw------- 1 jason jason 1702 May 27 18:49 .bash_history
drwx------ 2 jason jason 4096 May 25 23:18 .cache
drwx------ 3 jason jason 4096 May 24 17:45 .config
drwxrwxr-x+ 168 root root 12288 May 25 19:08 Music
drwx------ 2 jason jason 4096 May 25 23:18 .ssh
-rw-r--r-- 1 jason jason 0 May 25 23:33 .sudo_as_admin_successful
-rw-r--r-- 1 jason jason 165 May 27 18:36 .wget-hsts
jason@musicserver:~$

[simbun]

(26-05-2023 05:11)AudioDoctor Wrote:  I am installing it in my home folder because I can't "cd" into the folder "jason" inside the Home folder where my Music Folder resides.

/home isn't/shouldn't be your home folder, /home/jason is, that's why you can't unzip it because it's owned by root, not you - even though you've somehow got configuration files in there.

In your latest post you appear to be in /home/jason, did you change anything to be able to do that?

This isn't a standard configuration, do you have any idea how it got like that?

[simoncn]

Your Music folder is in /home/jason (full path /home/jason/Music). Your current directory when you ran the "ls" commands was /home/jason (shown as ~ in the command prompt).

To recover and reinstall MinimServer correctly, the following should work:

1) Run this command: pwd
2) The response should be /home/jason. If not, run this command: cd /home/jason
3) Run this command: sudo /home/minimserver/bin/uninstall
4) When prompted about whether to save your configuration file, enter n
5) Run this command: tar xf /home/MinimServer-2.2-linux-intel.tar.gz

Now continue from step 8 in this section. Everything should now work without your needing to use sudo.

If you get any errors or unexpected results while doing this, stop and post here with details of what you have seen.

[AudioDoctor]

I didn't do anything but follow the install prompts when installing Ubuntu Server. It is as stock as can be. /home/jason is where I end up when I sign in as jason. I think there is some confusion above about where I am in the file tree. /home/jason is where I am despite whatever it may appear as.

[AudioDoctor]

here are my steps:

I download the minimserver zip and transfer it to the public folder on the linux machine by copy and drag on my mac desktop to the public share folder.

Then I ssh into the linux machine, "cp" the file to /home/jason and from there I attempt to follow the install procedures.

This is what I am getting now.


Last login: Mon May 29 13:44:49 2023 from 192.168.0.171
jason@musicserver:~$ pwd
/home/jason
jason@musicserver:~$ cd /home/jason/public
jason@musicserver:~/public$ ls
MinimServer-2.2-linux-intel.tar.gz
jason@musicserver:~/public$ cp MinimServer-2.2-linux-intel.tar.gz /home/jason
jason@musicserver:~/public$ cd /home/jason
jason@musicserver:~$ ls
MinimServer-2.2-linux-intel.tar.gz Music public
jason@musicserver:~$ tar xf /home/MinimServer-2.2-linux-intel.tar.gz
tar: /home/MinimServer-2.2-linux-intel.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
jason@musicserver:~$


edit: I see the problem, the path to the zip file was wrong. fixing now.

edit 2: I dont know what's different this time, but it worked. The difference is probably me not making any errors. I appreciate your patience working with me on this.

[simbun]

Step 5 should have read:

Code:

5) Run this command: tar xf MinimServer-2.2-linux-intel.tar.gz

EDIT: I obviously missed your edit! Glad to see you got it working.

[simoncn]

Step 5 was correct as posted. From post #4, the /home directory contains the downloaded MinimServer-2.2-linux-intel.tar.gz file.

I too am glad you got it working.