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Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 10:50 am**

I have upgraded my production HDA from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 (with "yum -y --releasever=16 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync").

I got everything working as it was with Fedora 14 (latest versions of minidlna, sabnzbd, utorrent server, VNC, greyhole, etc...) (by the way, the wiki needs to be updated, some information is not valid for Fedora 16 anymore (VNC,...).

The only problem is the Amahi web UI. Something's wrong with the packages in the Amahi F16 repo.http://hda shows:

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Application error
Rails application failed to start properly

/var/log/httpd/error_log shows:

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*** Phusion Passenger: no passenger_native_support.so found for the current Ruby interpreter. Compil
ing one...
# mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.12/ext/ruby/native
# cd /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.12/ext/ruby/native
# /usr/bin/ruby '/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.12/ext/ruby/extconf.rb'
/usr/bin/ruby: No such file or directory -- /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.12/ext/ruby/ex
tconf.rb (LoadError)
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.12/lib/phusion_passenger/native_support.rb:124:in `sh': Co
uld not compile passenger_native_support.so ('/usr/bin/ruby '/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3
.0.12/ext/ruby/extconf.rb'' failed) (RuntimeError)

There seems to be a problem with the package from the Amahi repo, passenger_native_support.so appears to be missing.

The f14 amahi repo has rubygem-passenger-native, this package seems to be missing in the f16 amahi repo (but I get no dependency problem, reinstalling everything hda-suite needs goes well and doesn't show any error).

Could someone please point me to a working rpm?

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 3:16 pm**

Ok, I have fixed the problem.

rubygem-passenger-native is missing in the Amahi Fedora 16 repo. I don't know what the Amahi devs are doing?

This fixes the issue:

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yum install ftp://140.247.115.226/mirrors/passenger/fedora/16/i386/rubygem-passenger-native-3.0.12-1.fc16.i686.rpm ftp://140.247.115.226/mirrors/passenger/fedora/16/i386/rubygem-passenger-3.0.12-1.fc16.i686.rpm

The Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 Amahi upgrade is now working perfectly on my HDA.

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 3:44 pm**

Let me clarify, the Amahi devs were not working the upgrade path, only fresh install. I don't feel that comment was justified nor necessary. The fresh install of Fedora 16 was working fine.

Now on a different note, it is likely that Fedora 16 development will be terminated and Fedora 17 will be moving forward. It is due out within the next several days, so anticpate Fedora 16 will be dropped.

We are currently focusing on Ubuntu as it's the closest to being stable. There are some issues with Fedora 17 that need to be worked. Since that will likely take longer than we would like, Ubuntu looks to be the best path.

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 3:45 pm**

Excellent, I will try this now on my box

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 4:36 pm**

Excellent, I will try this now on my box

Here's what you need:

1. Do the upgrade:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=276026 (ignore the wifi part if not on wifi) (beware the missing "--" at point 9: --releasever=16).

2. After 1st reboot there's some services you need to re-enable with systemctl for them to auto start).

For example httpd, mysqld, smb, greyhole, hddtemp:

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systemctl enable httpd.service
systemctl start httpd.service

systemctl enable mysqld.service
systemctl start mysqld.service

systemctl enable smb.service
systemctl start smb.service

systemctl enable greyhole.service
systemctl start greyhole.service

systemctl enable hddtemp.service
systemctl start hddtemp.service

3. hdactl gave an error during the upgrade, because mysql was not running.

So after enabling and starting mysql after the reboot, reinstall hdactl to make sure it's fine:

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yum reinstall hdactl

3. [OPTIONAL] For DLNA, install minidlna 1.0.24 from the rpmfusion repos and copy the conf over (perhaps you need to "yum remove amahi-dlna" first)

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yum install minidlna
cp /var/hda/apps/dlna/amahi.conf /etc/minidlna.conf

4. [OPTIONAL] For VNC, the amahi wiki entry is not valid anymore since Fedora 16 and later now use systemd instead of init.d.

Look here for how to get this to work easily on Fedora 16:

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http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/linux/configuring-vnc-server-on-linux.php#systemd

5. after everything is up and running you can remove the remaining old packages (I had about 8) that are left from the old Fedora 14, if it's nothing you installed yourself:

You can list them with (these packages are not connected to a repo anymore):

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yum list extras

And then remove them with:

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yum remove

6. And as explained above, this made the amahi web ui work again:

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yum install ftp://140.247.115.226/mirrors/passenger/fedora/16/i386/rubygem-passenger-native-3.0.12-1.fc16.i686.rpm ftp://140.247.115.226/mirrors/passenger/fedora/16/i386/rubygem-passenger-3.0.12-1.fc16.i686.rpm

7. To get it to shutdown when pressing the power button

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yum remove gnome-power-manager

RESULT:
My HDA is working perfectly on Fedora 16, and slightly faster than before. Especially working on the shares locally (i.ex: remuxing 40Gb blu-ray discs, etc...) is a lot faster (I don't know if it's the new samba, the libs or the new drivers and improvements in kernel 3.3.5). Bootup and fsck is faster aswell.

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Updated point 2 with hddtemp.service. The hddtemp service must be running in order to get the hard drive temperatures monitoring in the amahi web ui.

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 5:02 pm**

Good thing i got side tracked...

thanks for the info. I will follow them (hopefully tonight), and I will let you know.

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 5:06 pm**

I guess this will update gnome as well. I have been thinking about removing gnome and installing xfce or LXDE for a desktop.
I do like having a shell on there to run and do things quickly. I also have dropbox and virtualbox installed so its easy to run/manage.

It this all breaks on me, I guess i will be beta testing ubuntu/hda

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 5:10 pm**

That is not such a bad thing. Not sure if you realize, but very unlikely we will complete Amahi for Fedora 16. We are looking at Fedora 17 once we have Ubuntu stable.

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 5:25 pm**

The benefit to using XFCE or even LXDE as the environment is that you waste much less resources on GUI rendering and similar GNOME business. I've made XFCE the default on all my fedora boxes and VMs.

Everything more or less ends up the same; just copy any desktop icons over to you new one.

This news about F16 is good, and so is the news about F17.

If the transition to CentOS is gonna be a long wait, I might just go this route for 16 unless 17 suddenly emerges.

good work!!

Posted: **Mon May 21, 2012 5:30 pm**

No plans on working CentOS. There was a user working it at one time, but he has since moved on I believe. I have not seen any traction on it in quite some time.

We just don't have the resources to do it ourselves. It's quite a handful with Fedora and now Ubuntu. Good thing about Ubuntu is we have 2 working it vs 1

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