I had Sonarr working great on my Synology DS1513+, but I had to do a factory reset of the device recently. Now, I cannot seem to grant Sonarr the permissions it needs to run properly. I have chmod’d all folders to 664 and chown’d all folders to mycustomuser:users. My understanding is that Sonarr runs under the users group. In Synology DSM, I have given full read/write permissions to the users group for all shared folders. What else could I possibly be missing? The current error I get from Sonarr is: Series’ root folder (/volume1/video/TV) is empty.
Any thoughts on how I can resolve this? How can I find out what user/group Sonarr runs under?
17535 nzbdrone 1377m S N /usr/local/mono/bin/mono --debug /usr/local/nzbdrone/share/NzbDrone/NzbDrone.exe
I’m pretty sure this means the user is nzbdrone but I’m hard pressed to know what group it’s a part of. Because it’s a Synology, a command like groups does not work. It seems like Synology has its own user permissions system that I’m having a tough time understanding.
I went ahead and tried creating a brand new shared folder in Synology and moved all of my files there. I renamed the shared folder to take on the same name as the old one. I am still getting the same error in Sonarr. This all worked fine last time I set it up so this is strange.
I was finally able to resolve this by doing the following:
1.) Create fresh shared folders and move your files accordingly (rename as needed).
2.) In each of the newly created shared folders with all of your files copies over, execute the following commands:
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0777
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0666