Media server and Samba have to be reenabled after inactivity

[vrapp]

With AC-68R and firmware 378.56.2, it looks like some USB applications stop working after period of inactivity. I saw it yesterday with media server, when DLNA source was not visible in the LAN; today it was Samba, when the share was not visible in the LAN. In both cases I disabled /reenabled respective server, and they both instantly showed up for everybody. On the other hand, Transmission is working all the time. So I wonder if there's some "inactivity period".

 

[RMerlin]

With AC-68R and firmware 378.56.2, it looks like some USB applications stop working after period of inactivity. I saw it yesterday with media server, when DLNA source was not visible in the LAN; today it was Samba, when the share was not visible in the LAN. In both cases I disabled /reenabled respective server, and they both instantly showed up for everybody. On the other hand, Transmission is working all the time. So I wonder if there's some "inactivity period".

It's possibly your disk going into sleep mode, causing issues with services.

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[Santiago C]

It's possibly your disk going into sleep mode, causing issues with services.

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I am having the same problem after upgrading my AC68U to 378.56.2. For some reason the minidlna daemon is stopped.

I initially thought that was a bug with the included minidlna so I disabled it and installed the Entware version, which seems to be killed as well (log mentions having received signal 15), probably by rc (issuing "service stop_media" actually stops the entware version as well, I am guessing it matches the process name when killing it).

I now have a script running hourly to check the minidlna daemon status and saves a copy of minidlna.log and syslog.log in case it gets killed, will post them here when it does the next time (when I realized it was killed yesterday syslog.log didn't contain info for that timeframe anymore)

 

[RMerlin]

Make sure you did enable it on the Media Servers page.

If you want to run an external build (such as Entware), just rename the minidlna executable to a different name. That way it won't get touched by the firmware.

 

[Raiu]

I am also having this issue, this wasn't the case in 50 I think it was? My Hd was always reachable even after going to sleep mode previously.

 

[vrapp]

I don't think it's because of disk. There's Transmission running, and I see it's uploading a bunch of torrents all the time, from the same storage.