After installing mediagoblin and used the systemd init files, I wasn't able to transcode any files.. After checking the logs /var/log/messages I get the following error:

ERROR/MainProcess] consumer: Cannot connect to amqp://guest:**@127.0.0.1:5672//: [Errno 111] Connection refused.
Trying again in 14.00 seconds...

[2017-07-28 17:39:06,874: ERROR/MainProcess] consumer: Cannot connect to amqp://guest:**@127.0.0.1:5672//: [Errno 111] Connection refused.
Trying again in 16.00 seconds...

[2017-07-28 17:39:22,912: ERROR/MainProcess] consumer: Cannot connect to amqp://guest:**@127.0.0.1:5672//: [Errno 111] Connection refused.
Trying again in 18.00 seconds.

After searching through the issues, I found issue #859: https://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/859

somewhat related to this problem...

I've checked config_spec.ini and found this:

[celery]
# default result stuff
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = string(default="database")
CELERY_RESULT_DBURI = string(default="sqlite:///%(here)s/celery.db")

# default kombu stuff
BROKER_URL = string(default="amqp://")

After changing the kombu stuff to:

BROKER_TRANSPORT = string(default="sqlalchemy")
BROKER_URL = string(default="sqlite:///%(here)s/kombu.db")

now it works...

I've never touched this file, this is configuration by default and there's nothing in the easy deployment wiki page to change something in here...

After a similar cleanup in ticket #5534, I discovered a bunch of other local variables that were assigned to but never used.

Upon installation of mediagoblin, and trying to activate the audio plugin, it fails to load properly.

OS Debian 8 / Devuan Jessie

When executing the ./gmg update command the following error is received:

File "/srv/mediagoblin.example.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/media_types/audio/transcoders.py", line 44, in <module>

gi.require_version('Gst', '1.0')

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/init.py", line 100, in require_version

raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)

ValueError: Namespace Gst not available

The workaround is the same as described on this page: ​https://bugs.launchpad.net/pomodoro-indicator/+bug/1370221

The following NEW packages will be installed:

gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gstreamer1.0-tools

Appears the documentation is missing a dependancy for Debian Jessie.