# Readymedia / Minidlna stops working after upgrade to debian trixie
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/readymedia-minidlna-stops-working-after-upgrade-to-debian-trixie/24075
**Category:** Troubleshooting
**Tags:** services
**Created:** [31 August 2025 06:25 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/readymedia-minidlna-stops-working-after-upgrade-to-debian-trixie/24075 "2025-08-31T06:25:00Z")
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### Author:  [@eddierm](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/eddierm)
#### Post date: [31 August 2025 06:25 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/readymedia-minidlna-stops-working-after-upgrade-to-debian-trixie/24075/1 "2025-08-31T06:25:00Z")
### Creating a bug report/issue
I have searched the existing open and closed issues
#### Required Information
- DietPi version | G\_DIETPI\_VERSION\_CORE=9
G\_DIETPI\_VERSION\_SUB=16
G\_DIETPI\_VERSION\_RC=3
G\_GITBRANCH=‘master’
G\_GITOWNER=‘MichaIng’
G\_LIVE\_PATCH\_STATUS[0]=‘applied’
G\_LIVE\_PATCH\_STATUS[1]=‘applied’
- Distro version | `trixie`
- Kernel version | Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT\_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.41-1 (2025-08-12) x86\_64 GNU/Linux
- Architecture | amd64
- SBC model | Native PC (x86\_64)
#### Additional Information (if applicable)
- Software title | Readymedia minidlna
- Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated? The software was installed via dietpi-software before upgrading to trixie (I have it since Bullseye).
- Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi? I don’t know, I have upgraded to trixie my box.
#### Steps to reproduce
1. Upgrade to debian trixie using the script
2. After the last reboot minidlna stop working
#### Expected behaviour
- Minidlna functions as usual
#### Actual behaviour
- Minidlna stops working. When i run `dietpi-services status` I get:
```auto
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/minidlna.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2025-08-31 01:05:57 -05; 21min ago
Duration: 127ms
Invocation: ff262b07177c448393c5516195fceb12
Docs: man:minidlnad(1)
man:minidlna.conf(5)
Process: 5403 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/minidlnad -S -R -f /etc/minidlna.conf -P /dev/null (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
Main PID: 5403 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
Mem peak: 12.6M
CPU: 210ms
Aug 31 01:05:57 negro systemd[1]: Started minidlna.service - ReadyMedia (DietPi).
Aug 31 01:05:57 negro minidlnad[5403]: minidlna.c:1163: warn: Starting MiniDLNA version 1.3.3.
Aug 31 01:05:57 negro minidlnad[5403]: minidlna.c:392: warn: Creating new database at /mnt/Datos/dietpi_userdata/.MiniDLNA_Cache/files.db
Aug 31 01:05:57 negro minidlnad[5403]: minidlna.c:404: fatal: Failed to clean old file cache! Exiting...
Aug 31 01:05:57 negro systemd[1]: minidlna.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Aug 31 01:05:57 negro systemd[1]: minidlna.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
```
#### Extra details
- I tried ‘dietpi-software reinstall 39’ … not working
- I tried to uninstall, reboot, then fresh install… not working
- I tried renaming all the old multimedia folders and to delete all the folders before the fresh install… not working…
Thanks for any ideas to resolve this…
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [2 September 2025 09:32 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/readymedia-minidlna-stops-working-after-upgrade-to-debian-trixie/24075/2 "2025-09-02T09:32:38Z")
I didn’t have a solution, but I ran a test on an OrangePi 5 with Trixie. So far, Readymedia / Minidlna has installed without any issues. The service also runs fine after a reboot.
```auto
root@DietPiOPi5:~# journalctl -u minidlna.service
Sep 02 11:27:20 DietPiOPi5 systemd[1]: Started minidlna.service - ReadyMedia (DietPi).
Sep 02 11:27:21 DietPiOPi5 minidlnad[679]: minidlna.c:1163: warn: Starting MiniDLNA version 1.3.3.
Sep 02 11:27:21 DietPiOPi5 minidlnad[679]: minidlna.c:392: warn: Creating new database at /mnt/dietpi_userdata/.MiniDLNA_Cache/files.db
Sep 02 11:27:21 DietPiOPi5 minidlnad[679]: minidlna.c:1211: warn: HTTP listening on port 8200
Sep 02 11:27:21 DietPiOPi5 minidlnad[728]: playlist.c:135: warn: Parsing playlists...
Sep 02 11:27:21 DietPiOPi5 minidlnad[728]: playlist.c:269: warn: Finished parsing playlists.
Sep 02 11:27:21 DietPiOPi5 minidlnad[679]: monitor_inotify.c:223: warn: WARNING: Inotify max_user_watches [62430] is low or close to the number of used watches [6] and I do not have permission to increase this limit. Please do so manually by writing a higher value into /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches.
root@DietPiOPi5:~#
```
Can you share following
```auto
ls -la /mnt/dietpi_userdata/.MiniDLNA_Cache/
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/system)
#### Post date: [27 February 2026 21:33 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/readymedia-minidlna-stops-working-after-upgrade-to-debian-trixie/24075/3 "2026-02-27T21:33:28Z")
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