[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#745907: Bug#745907: systemd: minidlna does not start on boot

[Michael Stapelberg]

control: severity -1 normal

Hi Matthias,

Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias at bodenbinder.de> writes:
> As soon as I switched to systemd the minidlna service is not starting at boot
> time anymore. A manual start after boot is working.
> journalctl says:
>
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: [2014/04/12 15:04:16] getifaddr.c:73:
> error: ioctl(s, SIOCGIFADDR, ...): Die angeforderte Adresse kann nicht
> zugewiesen werden
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: [2014/04/12 15:04:16] getifaddr.c:73:
> error: ioctl(s, SIOCGIFADDR, ...): Kein passendes Ger?t gefunden
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: [2014/04/12 15:04:16] minidlna.c:761: No
> IP address automatically detected!
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: [2014/04/12 15:04:16] minidlna.c:786:
> error: Usage:
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: /usr/bin/minidlna [-d] [-v] [-f
> config_file]
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: [-a listening_ip] [-p port]
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: [-s serial] [-m model_number]
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: [-t notify_interval] [-P pid_filename]
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: [-w url] [-R] [-V] [-h]
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: Notes:
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: Notify interval is in seconds. Default
> is 895 seconds.
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: Default pid file is
> /run/minidlna/minidlna.pid.
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: With -d minidlna will run in debug mode
> (not daemonize).
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: -w sets the presentation url. Default is
> http address on port 80
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: -h displays this text
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: -R forces a full rescan
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: -L do note create playlists
> Apr 12 15:04:16 rakete minidlna[1241]: -V print the version number
>
>
> Looks like the network is not ready while mindlna is fired up. I could fix the
> problem by adding a "sleep 5" right at the beginning of
> /etc/init.d/minidlna.
Please read this discussion:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-systemd-maintainers/2014-February/001538.html

tl;dr: fix the application to not assume that network is a static thing
that is configured at some point.

More helpfully, the upcoming 204-9 upload with its insserv changes might
actually help here, but you should still get the application fixed.

Feel free to reassign the bug against minidlna itself.

-- 
Best regards,
Michael