inotify not working for minidlna

[jerry0000]

Whatever I do, I can not make inotify work for minidlna.
-- I have increased the watch # to the min that minidlna will not complain.
--I have chown the db folder to nobody:nobody.
--I have removed the db and art cache and rebuild the db (http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?p=17381).
However nothing works. Minidlna will not pickup added files, or remove deleted folders. Very frustrating.

Here are a bit more detail of my minidlna setup:
-- media folders are in /dlna/sources/{video, audio, image}, which are CIFS shares on a fileserver (ro)
-- db folder is /dlna/db, which is symlinked to /var/cache/minidlna, owned by nobody

The only thing I can think of is that the /dlna/db symlink might cause some trouble, and I probably should use the /var/cache/minidlna folder directly. However with db empty, minidlna had no trouble generating the db as it owns the folder/symlink.

Log did not produce anything useful. Did not even tell me if inotify was trying. While during testing, I changed the inotify interval to 5 min (300 s).

Any hints?

[jerry0000]

I am trying to store the db in /var/cache/minidlna (owned by nobody) directly, rather than thru the symlink to /dlna/db. However I am not very hopful, as this should not make any difference. (/dlna/db was owned by nobody as well.)

I have read that inotify need kernel support. Does arch arm 3.1 has kernel support for inotify?

Thanks!

[WarheadsSE]

Yes, it has support, and works. Can you post your config, anonymized a bit of course if you are overly paranoid.

[jerry0000]

Thanks for willing to take a look. My conf files are very simple, purely based on the defaults.

/etc/minidlna.conf:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
# port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic
port=8200

# network interfaces to serve, comma delimited
#network_interface=eth0

# set this to the directory you want scanned.
# * if have multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
# * if you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you
# can prepend the type, followed by a comma, to the directory:
# + "A" for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
# + "V" for video (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
# + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
media_dir=A,/dlna/audio
media_dir=V,/dlna/video
media_dir=V,/dlna/homevd
media_dir=P,/dlna/image

# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
friendly_name=Pogo DLNA

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its database and album art cache
db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its log file
log_dir=/var/log/minidlna

# set this to change the verbosity of the information that is logged
# each section can use a different level: off, fatal, error, warn, info, or debug
log_level=general,artwork,database,inotify,scanner,metadata,http,ssdp,tivo=warn

# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art
# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/")
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.$

# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files
# note: the default is yes
inotify=yes

# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO
enable_tivo=no

# set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards.
# * This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images,
# which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products.
strict_dlna=no

# default presentation url is http address on port 80
presentation_url=http://192.168.18.30:8200

# notify interval in seconds. default is 895 seconds.
notify_interval=300

# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients
# in its XML description
serial=12345678
model_number=1

# specify the path to the MiniSSDPd socket
#minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock

# use different container as root of the tree
# possible values:
# + "." - use standard container (this is the default)
# + "B" - "Browse Directory"
# + "M" - "Music"
# + "V" - "Video"
# + "P" - "Pictures"
# if you specify "B" and client device is audio-only then "Music/Folders" will be used as root
#root_container=.
')

/etc/conf.d/minidlna:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
MINIDLNA_USER=nobody
MINIDLNA_OPTS=""
')

[WarheadsSE]

ls -l /dlna
ls -l /dlna/

[jerry0000]

ls -l /dlna
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 29 23:45 dlna
')
ls -l /dlna/
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
drwxrwxrwx 11 root root 0 Sep 15 2011 audio
drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 0 Oct 14 23:13 homevd
drwxrwxrwx 21 root root 0 Nov 12 23:48 image
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 0 Dec 21 18:37 video
')

Add:
/dlna/{audio homevd image video} are CIFS shares on a samba server (NAS), and mounted read only. The NAS support NFS share as well. I am not sure if I mount as NFS shares will help anything. I did not use NFS because before POGO, all clients are windows and do not need NFS.

[jerry0000]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jerry0000', 'I') am trying to store the db in /var/cache/minidlna (owned by nobody) directly, rather than thru the symlink to /dlna/db. However I am not very hopful, as this should not make any difference. (/dlna/db was owned by nobody as well.)

[WarheadsSE]

Uhm, I wanted to see the permissions, hence the -l.

[jerry0000]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'U')hm, I wanted to see the permissions, hence the -l.

[WarheadsSE]

IDK if inotify works on samba mounts.