gmediarender does not start as a service

[Paul Beardsell]

gmediarender does not start as a service unless files /etc/init.d/gmediarender and /etc/default/gmediarender are modified.
Firstly the user nobody cannot be used because the process wants to write files.
And the audio params best left out.
The whole service thing is a mess!

If you start the prog from the command line as an ordniary user - zero parms - it works!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: gmediarender 0.0.7~git20150616-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-27.32-generic 4.2.8-ckt1
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Feb 20 03:43:27 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-04 (168 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: gmrender-resurrect
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-23 (119 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.default.gmediarender: 2016-02-20T03:24:28.967651
mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.gmediarender: 2016-02-20T03:14:53.995083

[Bengt Nilsson (bnilsson11)]

I confirm that the gmediarender service does not start.
Any detailed description on how to modify the service script(s) is appreciated.

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

The problem seems to be that the init script (which is a Debian contribution) is not compatible with systemctl/systemd.

If you comment out the line that says ". /lib/lsb/init-functions" then it works, but systemd won't know it is running.

[Tobias Frost (coldtobi)]

I guess this is https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801332, fixed long time ago.