mediatomb respawning too fast, stopped

[redbrain]

On booting my mediatomb main process is terminating and respawning very often until it stops with

 init: mediatomb respawning too fast, stopped

expected: Mediatomb should start correctly on bootup of ubuntu
instead it breaks.

Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release: 12.04

mediatomb:
  Installiert: 0.12.1-0ubuntu4
  Kandidat: 0.12.1-0ubuntu4
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 0.12.1-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[ 30.196236] init: mediatomb main process (1560) terminated with status 1
[ 30.196261] init: mediatomb main process ended, respawning
[ 30.229641] init: mediatomb main process (2326) terminated with status 1
[ 30.229657] init: mediatomb main process ended, respawning
[ 30.243044] init: mediatomb main process (2339) terminated with status 1
[ 30.243061] init: mediatomb main process ended, respawning
[ 30.256484] init: mediatomb main process (2342) terminated with status 1
[ 30.256502] init: mediatomb main process ended, respawning
[ 30.269856] init: mediatomb main process (2345) terminated with status 1
[ 30.269871] init: mediatomb main process ended, respawning
[ 30.283449] init: mediatomb main process (2355) terminated with status 1
[ 30.283465] init: mediatomb main process ended, respawning
[ 30.296740] init: mediatomb main process (2373) terminated with status 1
[ 30.296755] init: mediatomb main process ended, respawning
[ 30.310289] init: mediatomb main process (2375) terminated with status 1
[ 30.310307] init: mediatomb main process ended, respawning
[ 30.323812] init: mediatomb main process (2389) terminated with status 1
[ 30.323828] init: mediatomb main process ended, respawning
[ 30.337415] init: mediatomb main process (2391) terminated with status 1
[ 30.337431] init: mediatomb main process ended, respawning
[ 30.350904] init: mediatomb main process (2393) terminated with status 1
[ 30.350920] init: mediatomb respawning too fast, stopped

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

This is happening when upstart is attempting to start the process during boot, there's a workaround.

"sudo nano /etc/init/mediatomb.conf"

Change the start stops to the following:

start on started apache2
stop on stopped apache2
respawn

If you aren't using apache2 as your webserver, replace apache2 with whatever service you are using.