ProFTPD server plugin is not working after upgrade from LE 11.0.3 to 11.0.4

gonzuchna · January 4, 2024 at 12:02 PM

RPi4B (4GB)

I have been using ProFTPD Server plugin since LE 10.0.4. It was working smoothly on 11.0.3 as well. Yesterday I upgraded to 11.0.4 and and FTP server is not working any more. I recognised the problem either on upgraded 11.0.4 (drom 11.0.3) as well as on "fresh" 11.0.4 installation. Any ideas what to do?

**chewitt** · January 4, 2024 at 1:57 PM

Share Kodi and/or system logs that show a problem, else we have no idea what the issue is.

gonzuchna · January 4, 2024 at 10:54 PM

Though task I am rather a user not a programmer or system developer. Any hints (steps) what should I do to switch on logging and submit them to the forum?

I guess the experimet should be done with the camera which uploads a picture to ProFTP server, either from version 11.0.3 and from 11.0.4 to show that in the first case the ftp upload is OK and in the second one the IP camera cannot get to the server?

**chewitt** · January 5, 2024 at 2:37 AM

Please provide a full debug log.

How to post a log (wiki)

1. Enable debugging in Settings>System Settings>Logging
2. Restart Kodi
3. Replicate the problem
4. Generate a log URL (do not post/upload logs to the forum)

use "Settings > LibreELEC > System > Paste system logs" or run "pastekodi" over SSH, then post the URL link

gonzuchna · January 5, 2024 at 10:33 AM

Done!

Both logs (11.0.4 - first and 11.0.3 - second) were uploade ~11 AM CET. The first attached picture (189b) points log of 11.0.4 (problematic) and the second one (190c) points to log from 11.0.3 (ftp works without any problems).

Both systems are fresh - just installed. Only two plugins are installed: ProFTPD Server and Kodi Log Uploader. RPi's IP in both cases is the same (192.168.1.99). Experiments were done with the help of HIK IP camera (192.168.1.202) which tried to ftp a test file to the server (192.168.1.99).

FTP user and password in both cases were the same.

**chewitt** · January 6, 2024 at 5:49 AM

There's nothing in the Kodi logs, which is one reason why we asked for "pastekodi" which also outputs the systemd log. You may also need to include the FTP server log (assuming there is one).

gonzuchna · January 6, 2024 at 10:02 AM

I will repeat the experiment with "pastekodi" an publish links to the forum.

Any hints where in the file structure I can look for ProFTPD server logs? In the past I "walked" though the files of LibreELEC with SSH but I am not sure I understand the logic of the filestructure enough.

BTW, reading the responses to IP camera when it tries to upload the file one can come to the conclusion that FTP server is not running, not a problem with negotiations during session setup.

**vpeter** · January 6, 2024 at 6:44 PM

The problem is this:

Code

LibreELEC:~ # ping localhost
ping: bad address 'localhost'

LibreELEC:~ # ping $(hostname)
ping: bad address 'LibreELEC'

and workaround is this (run in SSH console or add content to file manually).

Code

echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" >>/storage/.config/hosts.conf

Looks like the issue comes from https://github.com/LibreELEC/serv…ttings/pull/292

where only half of the solution was applied on LE11.

Related: https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/7696

Quote from gonzuchna

Any hints where in the file structure I can look for ProFTPD server logs?

Code

systemctl status service.proftpd

gonzuchna · January 8, 2024 at 12:20 PM

Thanks a lot! The workaround works (LE11.0.4). Systemctl seems to be very usefull tool.

Chinaski331850 · January 14, 2024 at 5:16 PM

Hi everybody,

I have a problem too with proftpd since i upgrade.

I put the log can anybody can help me ? Thanks.

https://paste.libreelec.tv/relative-toad.log

Regards

**CvH** · January 14, 2024 at 7:41 PM

Quote from Chinaski331850

I have a problem too with proftpd since i upgrade.

upgrade to 11.0.5 to fix this problem

Chinaski331850 · January 15, 2024 at 10:26 AM

Hi,

I upgrade to 11.0.5 but i can't still connect to proftpd

i post the log here. Maybe a bad settings in Filezilla? I apologize, i'm noob (but i want to learn)

Thanks,

https://paste.libreelec.tv/enormous-bonefish.log

**vpeter** · January 15, 2024 at 11:16 AM

Looks like only plain FTP works. Will check what is wrong later.

Update: Addon was fixed on github.

Chinaski331850 · January 18, 2024 at 4:31 PM

Hi,

Thanks for your answer, after updated the addon it seems always i can't connected to proftpd,

I put the log here, don't know what is wrong. sorry

https://paste.libreelec.tv/direct-caribou.log

Regards

**vpeter** · January 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM

First uninstall addon and also remove it's settings. Then install it again and check if works or still not.

Or you can fix it by running this commands in SSH terminal:

Code

sed -i "s|TLSProtocol .*|TLSProtocol TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3|" /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.proftpd/proftpd.conf
rm -f /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.proftpd/proftpd.*.pem
systemctl restart service.proftpd

You can check the status of the service by command

Code

systemctl status service.proftpd

Chinaski331850 · January 18, 2024 at 8:30 PM

Hi,

That's works.

Thank you very much for your patience.

ProFTPD server plugin is not working after upgrade from LE 11.0.3 to 11.0.4

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