Installing Mediatomb on Solaris 11 Express

My home NAS is now running Solaris 11 for the 'express' purpose (sorry) of being able to use ZFS, and all the light, joy and happiness it brings to the world of storage. I'm using three 1TB SATA disks in a RAIDZ configuration, and using ZFS's built-in filesystem compression, CIFS and NFS sharing capabilities. Since I use a PS3 as my media center front-end I need a DLNA/UPnP media server and having used Mediatomb previously on Linux, that's what I'll walk through installing from source here today.

Before starting, make sure you have GNU C compiler (gcc) and make installed. This is easily achieved using the new package management tools in Solaris 11. Try man pkg to get started.

For Mediatomb to correctly identify certain files' MIME types (like image/jpeg, for example) you need to build the GPL'd version of the file utility for a library called libmagic.

tar zxvf file-5.04.tar.gz
cd file-5.04
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

Check for libmagic library and headers:

ls /usr/local/include
ls /usr/local/lib

Next, download the source for Mediatomb and extract it.

tar zxvf mediatomb-0.12.1.tar.gz
cd mediatomb-0.12.1

The source code contains some apparently outdated prelink logic which breaks the build on newer versions of the OS, so we need to comment it out. You can either edit src/main.cc by hand or just use the following patch - save it to main.cc.patch0.

*** src/main.cc.orig    2010-12-20 13:13:11.080796210 +1000
--- src/main.cc 2010-12-20 13:13:30.478542756 +1000
***************
*** 141,146 ****
--- 141,147 ----

      Ref<Array<StringBase> > addFile(new Array<StringBase>());

+ /*
  #ifdef SOLARIS
      String ld_preload;
      char *preload = getenv("LD_PRELOAD");
***************
*** 155,160 ****
--- 156,162 ----
          exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
      }
  #endif
+ */

  #ifdef HAVE_GETOPT_LONG
      while (1)

And apply the patch:

patch src/main.cc < main.cc.patch0

Now configure, build and install:

./configure --enable-libmagic --with-magic-h=/usr/local/include --with-magic-libs=/usr/local/lib
make
make install

At this stage, you could add your config files and fire up the daemon, however I'm going to create service manifests so we can manage startup and shutdown of Mediatomb via the Solaris Service Management Framework (SMF). Save this file as /lib/svc/method/svc-mediatomb.

#!/bin/sh
. /etc/mediatomb.conf
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/mediatomb -d \
    -u $MT_USER \
    -g $MT_GROUP \
    -P $MT_PIDFILE \
    -l $MT_LOGFILE \
    -m $MT_HOME \
    -f $MT_CFGDIR \
    -p $MT_PORT \
    -e $MT_INTERFACE \
    $MT_OPTIONS

Create /etc/mediatomb.conf, setting appropriate values for variables above. Something like the following would suffice:

MT_INTERFACE="rge0"
MT_OPTIONS=""
MT_PORT="50500"
MT_USER="media"
MT_GROUP="media"
MT_PIDFILE="/var/run/mediatomb.pid"
MT_LOGFILE="/var/log/mediatomb"
MT_HOME="/etc"
MT_CFGDIR="mediatomb"

Now for the service manifest - create this file as /var/svc/manifest/application/mediatomb.xml.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM "/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1">
<service_bundle type="manifest" name="mediatomb">
    <service name="application/mediatomb" type="service" version="1">
        <create_default_instance enabled="false"/>
        <single_instance/>
        <dependency name="network" grouping="require_all" restart_on="error" type="service">
            <service_fmri value="svc:/milestone/network:default"/>
        </dependency>
        <dependency name="filesystem" grouping="require_all" restart_on="error" type="service">
            <service_fmri value="svc:/system/filesystem/local"/>
        </dependency>
        <exec_method type="method" name="start" exec="/lib/svc/method/svc-mediatomb" timeout_seconds="60">
        </exec_method>
        <exec_method type="method" name="stop" exec=":kill" timeout_seconds="5">
        </exec_method>
        <property_group name="startd" type="framework">
            <propval name="ignore_error" type="astring" value="core,signal"/>
        </property_group>
        <stability value="Evolving"/>
        <template>
            <common_name>
                <loctext xml:lang="C">
                    UPnP Media Server
                </loctext>
            </common_name>
            <documentation>
                <manpage title="mediatomb" section="1" manpath="/opt/local/share/man"/>
                <doc_link name="mediatomb.cc" uri="http://mediatomb.cc"/>
            </documentation>
        </template>
    </service>
</service_bundle>

Then validate, import and run the service:

svccfg validate /var/svc/manifest/application/mediatomb.xml
svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/application/mediatomb.xml
svcs -a mediatomb
svcadm enable mediatomb

If all went well you should now be able to connect to the Mediatomb web interface on port 50500.