Hasse's technical ramblings

This time I would just mention a quick solution to a problem I had while using the Rygel upnp server on a headless server.

I recently decided to use Rygel on my home server(had used coherence upnp server once in a while before), but have had an interest in Rygel for a long time, but the version in the repositories have bin very old, and only recently did I get new enough libs to compile it(it depends on vala and quite new libraries for that..so on Debian Lenny it was to much a pain than I would like)

The problem was that after properly configuring Rygel and then starting you get a lot of warnings about dbus-launch(that is normal because we are running on a server without dbus running) and then other upn devices didn’t see any upnp serv at all, and there was no obvoius error message from Rygel. After taking som time to debug I tried to strace it and found that Rygel didn’t like that /home//.config didn’t exist because it would like to create a directory for its settings under that dir

So the solution is to create the .config dir :-)