Hello,

in case somebody requires an update of the script for running ubooquity 2.0.2 on a synology NAS, here is mine. The procedure of installation is already described in the tutorial (look in the FAQ). This script is meant to go in :

>etc/init/ubooquity.conf

This is tested and it's working on my Synology DS212 [the NAS is quite old but it's still able to run ubooquity without (much) issue]

Here is the code, don't forget to adapt to your environnement, especially the installation folders: WORK_DIR, PCKG_DIR

and network and memory settings

# app settings
 PORT=2202
 ADMINPORT=2203
 MEM=128m

#============================================
#     Ubooquity
# description: upstart job configuration file for automatically
#   starting ubooquity when syno starts
# title  :ubooquity.conf
# date  :16 05 2017
# version : 2.0.2 (tested for ubooquity version...)
# original source: ubooquity forum about special characters
#   http://ubooquity.userecho.com/topic/907059-comics-not-imported-umlaut-mark-bug/
#=============================================

description "start/stop Ubooquity"
author "Elouan Le Bretton"
version "Ubooquity Version 2.0.2; java version 1.8.0_121 "

# automatically start ubooquity after webserver has been started
# DSM 5.0 = httpd-user (apache); DSM 6.0 = nginx
start on started nginx

# stop ubooquity on
stop on runlevel [06]

# Automatically respawn if ubooquity stops unexpetedly
respawn
respawn limit 5 500
# expect stop [this seems to be expected sometime but requires testing to be sure)

# run the scripts as the 'http' user; because running as root (the default) is a bad idea.
setuid http

script
 # installation settings
 JAVA_DIR=/var/packages/java8/target/ejdk1.8.0_121/linux_arm_sflt/jre/bin/
 WORK_DIR=/volume1/comics/.Ubooquity2
 PCKG_DIR=/var/packages/Ubooquity
 PCKG_BIN=Ubooquity.jar
 # app settings
 PORT=2202
 ADMINPORT=2203
 MEM=128m

 # This ensures that ubooquity reads special characters properly
 ENCO=UTF-8
 LANG=fr_FR.$ENCO
 export LANG
 
 # Main command for ubooquity
 exec "$JAVA_DIR/java" -Dfile.encoding=$ENCO -Xmx$MEM -jar $PCKG_DIR/$PCKG_BIN --libraryport $PORT --workdir "$WORK_DIR"  --adminport $ADMINPORT --remoteadmin --headless
end script

The "hide empty folders" option seems to have disappeared. When first installed and scanned it did not show empty folders. I made a few different changes today (added another user, played around with reverse-proxy) and now it is rescanning and seems to be adding empty folders to the mix.

Any ideas what I broke? Is there a hidden way to hide empty folders in the interim?

I've had ubooquity open on my Mac Mini server for maybe a week now, using it intermittently. Noticing some sluggishness, I opened activity monitor and noticed the "launcher" app is now taking well over 1GB of RAM. I closed Ubooquity and reopened it and it seems fine, but wondering if there's a memory management issue maybe.

FYI, if some of you have issues with PDF covers and Ubooquity 2.X, maybe this is due to this OpenJDK bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8048782

I'll try to switch later to Oracle JDK or OpenJDK 9 to confirm the issue

Hi,

Following a few days of everything working smoothly, today, everything is unfortunately broken.

Initially, I was able to connect to the admin interface. After entering the admin password, ubooquity seemed to go into a redirection loop.

Some relevant log messages:

20170513 16:25:53 [qtp2898168-6297] ERROR com.ubooquity.data.database.f - Cound not get session token entry for user : UbooquityInternalAdministratorUserName
org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: The database has been closed [90098-193]
20170513 16:25:53 [qtp2898168-6297] INFO  com.ubooquity.d.a - Admin cookie token invalid or too old. Access Denied. [ip:192.168.1.113]
20170513 16:25:53 [qtp2898168-3451] ERROR com.ubooquity.data.database.f - Cound not get session token entry for user : UbooquityInternalAdministratorUserName
org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: The database has been closed [90098-193]
20170513 16:26:03 [qtp2898168-6299] ERROR com.ubooquity.data.database.f - Error while creating/updating session in database
org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: The database has been closed [90098-193]
20170513 16:26:03 [qtp2898168-6299] INFO  com.ubooquity.d.a - Admin successfully logged in
20170513 16:26:03 [qtp2898168-6302] ERROR com.ubooquity.data.database.f - Cound not get session token entry for user : UbooquityInternalAdministratorUserName
org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: General error: "java.lang.IllegalStateException: File corrupted in chunk 595347, expected page length 4..256, got 1409434955 [1.4.193/6]" [50000-193]
20170513 16:26:03 [qtp2898168-6302] INFO  com.ubooquity.d.a - Admin cookie token invalid or too old. Access Denied. [ip:192.168.1.113]
20170513 16:26:03 [qtp2898168-6298] ERROR com.ubooquity.data.database.f - Cound not get session token entry for user : UbooquityInternalAdministratorUserName
org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: General error: "java.lang.IllegalStateException: File corrupted in chunk 595347, expected page length 4..256, got 1409434955 [1.4.193/6]" [50000-193]

[much more of this before the server was shut down]

When trying to restart, the following happens:

20170513 16:28:03 [main] INFO  com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - Running with the following parameters - headless: true, libraryport: 2200, adminport: 2202, remoteadmin: true, host: null, debug: false, execdir: /path/to/comics
20170513 16:28:16 [main] ERROR com.ubooquity.data.database.d - Cound not get number of existing tables
org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: General error: "java.lang.IllegalStateException: File corrupted in chunk 595347, expected page length 4..256, got 1409434955 [1.4.193/6]" [50000-193]
20170513 16:28:16 [main] ERROR com.ubooquity.data.database.d - Could not configure collation strength
org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: General error: "java.lang.IllegalStateException: File corrupted in chunk 595347, expected page length 4..256, got 1409434955 [1.4.193/6]" [50000-193]
20170513 16:28:16 [main] ERROR com.ubooquity.data.database.c - Could not create COMIC table
org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: General error: "java.lang.IllegalStateException: File corrupted in chunk 595347, expected page length 4..256, got 1409434955 [1.4.193/6]" [50000-193]
20170513 16:28:16 [main] ERROR com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - Exiting application because of exception
org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: General error: "java.lang.IllegalStateException: File corrupted in chunk 595347, expected page length 4..256, got 1409434955 [1.4.193/6]" [50000-193]
20170513 16:28:16 [main] ERROR com.ubooquity.Ubooquity - Failed to display error dialog
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Toolkit not initialized

and that's the end of it. As mentioned in the subject, this is ubooquity 2.0.2 running on ubuntu 16.04.2.

thanks.

Would simply making a copy of the .db file be suitable as a backup?  If I reinstalled Ubooquity and dropped the file into my Ubooquity folder, would it be recognized?

With as heavily skinned as this program can be, if the database gets wiped all the links get changed to new values.

If it's not as simple as replacing the fresh install's database file with the old file, can we get a to-do for an option in the Admin screen to load from a database file?

When I navigate to a folder manually, comics are displayed in order. Even when using the flat grouping, issues of a certain series are kept together and in order (for the most part - I know there is a known bug in which, in the case of a series with over 100 issues, issue 100-109 are displayed after issue 10, 110-119 are displayed after 11, and so on).

However, when I do a search, the results are given in no particular order. Not only are issues of the same series not grouped together, when issues of the same series do turn up next to each other, they're usually displayed out of order.

Ubooquity was working a while ago and at some point broke and I've only gotten around to looking at it.

I'm unable to access the server from another computer on the same network, using the internal IP (192.168.1.14:2202/admin) if the Windows Firewall is turned on. I've tried adding rules to allow 2202 for both TCP and UDP for incoming but I am still not able to access it when the firewall is enabled.

What am I missing? If I disable it, it works right away, as expected. I don't have any other firewalls in place and just disabling the Windows Firewall to get it to work, leads me to believe that's where the problem lies, somehow.

HI, my PC is accessing 2 LANS, one belonging to the router (and thus the allowing access to internet) and the other is local only and cannot access the internet. Unfortunately, ubooquity automatically selects the latter for assgning a local address, so I can not access my library from outside.

Is there a way to manually select a LAN or an address?

Just wondering if the Synology instructions are going to be updated for the new 2.0 release. It looks great, but I can't quite get the syntax for the .conf file down to get it to launch.