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PS3 fails to see DLNA without ReadyNAS reboot
Hi all, I've found various threads on this issue but no solution so I'm hoping there's an answer that I've just missed. When first switched on, my Playstation 3 is only able to see the NAS drive th...
Hi, I just bought a PS3 slim and a ReadyNAS Duo, which initially didn't seem to work well together. My initial scan did not find the media server on the
Duo, but at some point later it was suddenly just there. Later still it disappeared and scanning again did not work. I tried changing the notify interval,
as mentioned earlier in this thread, but in my case the solution was that since I could see the following error in upnp-av.log:
error: Unable to open pidfile for writing /var/run/minidlna.pid: File exists
the solution was simply to remove the .pid file and restart readydlna via the web interface.
Suggestion: A restart of the readydlna-service should remove the pid-file if it exists, unless there is a good reason not to?
Duo, but at some point later it was suddenly just there. Later still it disappeared and scanning again did not work. I tried changing the notify interval,
as mentioned earlier in this thread, but in my case the solution was that since I could see the following error in upnp-av.log:
error: Unable to open pidfile for writing /var/run/minidlna.pid: File exists
the solution was simply to remove the .pid file and restart readydlna via the web interface.
Suggestion: A restart of the readydlna-service should remove the pid-file if it exists, unless there is a good reason not to?
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