[Kde-imaging] [kipiplugins] [Bug 315580] digiKam crashed after I changed the DLNA implementation from "HUPnP API" to "miniDLNA"

[José Juan]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315580

--- Comment #14 from José Juan <netphilos at gmail.com> ---
Well, I've trying to share my photos with the plugin to my smartTV. I've
not been able to see anything neither with HUP nor with minidlna. The
problem might have to do with two things:
First, and I think this is specific to openSUSE, minidlna as such requires
root privileges to be run. So when you start sharing using the plugin
nothing at all will happen unless you have started the service (rcminidlna)
by yourself as root.
Second, minidlna stores its configuration file in /etc. (minidlna.conf).
You have to manually edit this file to specify the folders you want to
share. This, as before, requires root privileges. Even more, since minidlna
does not automatically rescans your collections, if you want to add other
directories or actualize what you share, the command minidlna -R must be
run with root privileges. So choosing directories with the plugin does not
have any consequence for what you share.

Besides, there are some strange things. After starting as root the service,
and starting the plugin inside digiKam, the TV was able to see the folders
that I have chosen to be shared. But they did not contain any pictures even
though I have selected them in the last window.
Even more, I've seen that when specifying the folders to share, the
selection doesn't work recursively. I mean, if in a directory (like /fotos)
you have something like /fotos/Nature; and /fotos/Cities; and you only tick
on /fotos; the folders inside /fotos didn't appear on the TV.

Well, I hope I can throw some light into the problems with this promising
plugin. I have always wonder why minidlna installs with root privileges in
SUSE (default installation using either zypper or YaST). I suppose that if
you compile it from source yourself, this will not happen; but I have not
try it myself.

Thanks a lot for your work.

José


2013/3/6 José Juan González <netphilos at gmail.com>

> I have not been able to see it today (sorry - there's been a lot of work)
> I'll try it out tomorrow.
>
>
> 2013/3/6 Smit Mehta <smit.meh at gmail.com>
>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315580
>>
>> Smit Mehta <smit.meh at gmail.com> changed:
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>>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>              Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
>>          Resolution|---                         |WAITINGFORINFO
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>> --- Comment #12 from Smit Mehta <smit.meh at gmail.com> ---
>> Hi againsttcpa84 at gmail.com
>>
>> I have fixed quite a bunch of stuff. I dont think it will crash now. I am
>> still
>> looking in minidlna as to why its not able to share stuff. Kindly get the
>> latest source code, and see if it still crashes.
>>
>> Smit
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