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Thanks for the suggestion. I already had a script which checked temperature, swap space, home dir space, etc, but it didn't check /var space. I will add that now.
Cheers
Mick

Found it!!!

/var/log/minidlna.log was 96 gb. Stopped minidlna, deleted the log and now it looks OK.

Now I just need to sort out what is wrong with minidlna 😄

Thanks for your help

It is a 4TB drive and I think it is no more than half full
This is what I see

mick@holly:~$ sudo du -sh /*
0 /bin
247M /boot
4.0K /cdrom
33M /common
11M /core
0 /dev

Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-52-generic x86_64)

My server is reporting "No space left on device" and I can't do much with it.

In another post I saw something similar and reference to...

Yes that was the problem, sorry I should have seen it.

Thanks for your help
Mick

Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-50-generic x86_64)

I installed minidlna a long while ago and it was working. I just tried to use it and it is not working. I checked the setup, that all...

I had similar problems. Lots of research, trial and error testing and it is now working again.
It seems that the OS upgrade also upgrades PHP from 7.4 to 8.1 but links to php8.1 are missing, so I...

All fixed!!
The original problem of 100% CPU usage went away, I don't know why.
The second problem of not seeing anything on TV was a problem with directory ownership, corrected that, restarted and...

I have just installed it on my Desktop running Mint 20 as a test and it works fine. It must be permissions or something. Tomorrow I will remove all traces and start again. I'll let you know how it...

Yes each time I change anything in config I run
sudo service minidlna stop
sudo minidlnad -R
sudo service minidlna start

All of the files did play on TV before I started trying to fix the 100% CPU problem

No still not working, and my second video directory still shows on TV as a list of files but cannot be opened, even though it is not in the config file. Is that information cached anywhere? The log...

Sorry for the delay in replying, I have been testing out many scenarios. Now I am totally confused!!

Following your advice I set the log level and just enabled the smallest directory, restarted...

ajgreeny, I've just compared my config file with yours -
I have 4 media_dir= entries, you have 12
you have log_level=fatal, I have nothing for that
I have notify_interval=900, you have that...

This is what I see in top


PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND ...

On a fresh install of Ubuntu Server 20.04.1, LTS I have installed minidlna and it seems to be working OK, however it runs at 100% cpu, occasionally drops to 98% or so but mostly 100%
Is there...

Running Ubuntu Server 20.04. I am having problems with unison v2.48 and it seems the fix is to upgrade to v2.51, how can I do that? I have tried building from scratch but failed. How can I get to...

Thanks for you replies.
I had tried it a few times, sometimes getting connection to server lost and sometimes a space issue, can't remember if it was disk or memory, and I have rebooted since.

I...

I am trying to run Unison on a newly built server to sync with a Raspberry Pi and it is failing with an out of memory issue. I have checked the Pi and that is fine.
If I run df -haT on the server...

Many thanks for the replies, yes you are right it does install directly. I was using notes from a previous install which sent me on that route.

I then edited the .conf file to point to the media...

I have rebuilt my server with 19.10 and I'm trying to install minidlna. This is what I have done so far -

mkdir ~/.minidlna
cd .minidlna/
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/minidlna/git...

By 'both systems' did you mean desktop and server?
Server

mick@zen:~$ df -hT -x squashfs -x tmpfs -x devtmpfs
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 ext4 110G ...

My server runs Ubuntu server 19.10
My desktop runs Mint 19.2
Just tried to sync desktop and server using Unison and it fails with
Server: Error in saving archive:
No space left on device
...

Many thanks for your reply. I removed minidlna and reinstalled and now it is working!

I installed minidlna a couple of years ago and it worked, but haven't really used it for a long time (maybe updated server version between), now it doesn't work, my server is not in the source...