FAQ

Why is mt-daapd fail to start when my HDA boots?

This is a known issue with md-daapd (the Firefly media server). It is known non-issue, to be more precise, because the Firefly media server gets restarted successfully later after boot.

The mt-daapd server requires avahi* (for service discovery), however, the upstream packager decided to make it startbefore avahi*, which makes it exit with an error.

The Amahi Linux Home Server incorporates a monitor that checks all servers periodically and restarts them if they crash. so mt-daapd gets restarted later, this time successfully because avahi* is running already.

* avahi, not to be confused with Amahi, is a network dicovery daemon.

Updated over 8 years ago

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