apt-get install htop, sudo, usbutils,locate adduser raul, braden usermod -a -G mc,sudo (added raul and braden to mc group, added raul to sudo group) sudo apt-get update & upgrade
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I know I created one of those servers with the mc option, I’m not sure why it isn’t listed that way.
/var/log/mineos.log has no entries past 19 Jan, even though I tried creating a server as I was writing this reply. Here is the entire result for cat /var/log/mineos.log
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Question: Is your Cruzer flashdrive mounted all the time? I’m not yet able to discern what is causing your issue but one potential cause might be is if the archive/backup directories aren’t always mounted.
From the screenshot, it appears to be (ubuntu would red-link it if it were broken, right?), but if it weren’t the issue is that MineOS searches all the directories in {backup,archive,servers} to find the names of all available servers. A broken symlink might break the operation.
Second thing: In your javascript console (often F12), what is the error reported when you attempt to start the server?
Even though you only see the red pop-up, more detail should be outlined in the javascript console, hopefully which will better pinpoint what is going wrong.
Tertiary point, it’s kinda weird the variants you used for vanilla (some uppercase V some not, some with numbers (starting at 1!) and some ending with dots. No, this wouldn’t have any technical downsides (but it seems like it would make typing/auto-completion more complicated!)
Sorry for the delayed response, weekends are actually the hardest time for me to get time to work things out; we’ll figure it out.
Unless there is a reboot of some kind, yes. For some reason with VirtualBox the USB drive has to be removed and plugged back in after a reboot, at least for me anyway.
I’m not sure about that. This is my first experience with symlinks. Just to clarify the situation a little, I’m not running MineOS on Ubuntu, I’m running MineOS Turnkey in VirtualBox, which is running on an Ubuntu host.
As root, create newserver. Errors should be more explicit here in command line and maybe it’ll let us know exactly where it’s failing in the creation.
If not, I think the appropriate backpedaling steps is to return the {archive,backup} directories to directories rather than symlinks, but let’s try this first.
Good call on the symlinks. The same error showed up for the backup symlink as well. I removed the symlinks and created vanilla8 in the webui and it worked.
Sooo, how do I backup or archive to USB. Both for hdd space considerations and also to have a valid backup in case of a hdd crash or other system loss.
I think I read somewhere that rsync has issues with symlink or USB drives because of the “:” in the file name. I did not think this would apply to archiving though. It also did not dawn on me that it would affect server creation.
I wonder if it would work to create the symlink for archive after the server has been created?
The symlink you created should likely be A-OK, the only thing is that the archives and backups are being created as the user from the web-ui, so mc. If mc doesn’t have permissions on your flashdrive mount, then this error will crop up.
Either you a) chown the symlinked directory, e.g., /mnt/Cruzer/minecraft to mc, or b) you give o+w perms to it (so that all users, even those not the owner or group-owner) can write to it.
Alternatively, you could just write a cron that would mv the files from the normal on-HDD location to your flashdrive, but which option you choose is pretty much strictly preference.
The permissions for the USB drive are raul:mc 770, so I don’t think that was it. It might have to do with the format. I left it at vfat instead of ext3.
The archives worked in the past, I now remember having issues with the backups though I can’t remember exactly what they were. Worst case scenario I reformat the USB to ext3/ext4 and see what happens.
