Re: Localhost not starting up ...
On 6 Jun 2015 at 17:03, Owen Smith Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: msmpeng.exe goes mad occasionally consuming 100% cpu, usually after scanning the entire hard disc. A quick reboot of the machine fixes it without compromising security. Your fix leaves you wide open, you have disabled your virus scanner unless you have others running. But that would mean you would have had multiple running previously, which isn't a good idea either. AV software is not needed if you are sensible. I have none installed on any PC and all are clean. I do a weekly scan with malwarebytes and if it finds anything it is invariably a pup. Monthly I run an online housecall or bitdefender scan - never found anything. Scanning incoming email is not necessary either - even Microsoft has stated this. - Web Hosting and VPS provided by HostSlim https://clients.hostslim.eu/aff.php?aff=079 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Localhost not starting up ...
msmpeng.exe goes mad occasionally consuming 100% cpu, usually after scanning the entire hard disc. A quick reboot of the machine fixes it without compromising security. Your fix leaves you wide open, you have disabled your virus scanner unless you have others running. But that would mean you would have had multiple running previously, which isn't a good idea either. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 6 Jun 2015, at 16:41, CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for the links. Yes - it was a resources issue. Now Gip flies, and other web pages open up immediately. There were two culprits - hogging 100% of the cpu - that I've now got rid of. Using Task manager and Resource Manager the hogs were: 1/ msmpeng.exe - an anti-malware executable from MSE or MS Defender. Using MSConfig this has now been disabled - never to be restarted; and 2/ an Abode Acrobat plugin for Chrome - two versions of which were running and both hogging 100% of the cpu. These have now been closed down. No wonder nothing else ojuld run, the above apps were causing the cpu to remain at 100%, with a huge amount of disk accessing which I presume was the swap file paging. Now all is well - and I can even download Springwatch!!! CJB. On 06/06/2015, Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: On Fri Jun 5 23:29:47 BST 2015, CJB wrote: Things were great yesterday (Thursday) (snip) Sadly things today (Friday) have not gone well. I'm out of my depth here (???) - I was about to say that only YOU know what could have changed in your system between yesterday and today (e.g. MS updates, MSE definitions files, other AntiVirus used definition updates etc.) when I just saw a quasi-relevant post on the Support Forum: https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/topic/web-pvr-manager-fails-to-fork-after-a-day-or-so/ (one system also being Win7). Do not have a Win7 box here to try and reproduce... Given the user share of Win7, if this is a more general issue, expect more reports in the list/forum... In the meantime, can you ping localhost? In an administrator command prompt window (Start - Start search field type: cmd - right click the cmd.exe result and run as admin - this opens: C:\Windows\system32 type: ping localhost (without quotes), if localhost (i.e. your own computer) is running, you'll get something like: Pinging (name of PC) [::1] from ::1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from ::1: time1ms Reply from ::1: time1ms Reply from ::1: time1ms Reply from ::1: time1ms Ping statistics for ::1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms C:\Windows\system32 It may also be that another app on your machine is using port 1935, so there might be a port conflict... Or for whatever reason port 1935 may have been blocked (firewall rule?) As a longshot, please also try http://stackoverflow.com/a/873778 (backup your hosts file first: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts - if you mess it up you'll lose all internet connections... Search the net on how to enable hosts file editing on Win7) This issue has effectively stopped me from downloading everything and anything. This is an over-dramatised hyperbole... Have you tried the CLI? If it works (most probably), it can do the same (and much more) as the GUI - ample instructions on how to use the CLI on the GiP Wiki: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#command-usage https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/manpage If the CLI doesn't work at all, then you've got a serious problem on your hands... Regards ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Localhost not starting up ...
On Sat Jun 6 23:26:11 BST 2015, Peter S Kirk wrote: an Abode Acrobat plugin for Chrome - two versions of which were running and both hogging 100% of the cpu. These have now been closed down. Chrome has built in adobe plugins which are sometimes a problem: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/05/chrome_flash_plugin_power_drain/ Hi, Peter :-) Chris mentioned the Adobe Acrobat plugin; this is used to view PDF files within the browser; has nothing to do with the Adobe Flash plugin, that your linked article speaks about... Adobe Acrobat plugin is installed in your system along the free Adobe Reader (now renamed Adobe Acrobat Reader DC) or the pricy Adobe Acrobat Pro application - Google Chrome comes with its own internal Chrome PDF Viewer, so the best practice is to disable one of the two via chrome://plugins/ in Google Chrome. Just a clarification! As far as the built-in Adobe Pepper Flash plugin in Chrome is concerned, its days are numbered as the Google team plans to ditch it altogether in favour of HTML5! Many cheers, V. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Localhost not starting up ...
On 6 Jun 2015 at 16:41, CJB CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com wrote: 2/ an Abode Acrobat plugin for Chrome - two versions of which were running and both hogging 100% of the cpu. These have now been closed down. Chrome has built in adobe plugins which are sometimes a problem: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/05/chrome_flash_plugin_power_drain/ - Web Hosting and VPS provided by HostSlim https://clients.hostslim.eu/aff.php?aff=079 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Localhost not starting up ...
On 07/06/15 02:06, Vangelis forthnet wrote: Google team plans to ditch it altogether in favour of HTML5! That's not imminent AFAIK Principally because most everyone else has been too slow to adopt it You can blame the likes of M$ for that ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Localhost not starting up ...
I have Windows 7 + Chrome on an Acer Laptop Things were great yesterday (Thursday) with GiP v2.94 after a clean restore but ... Sadly things today (Friday) have not gone well. Now when I start up the Windows PVM I get a blank white screen with the following in the address field. http://localhost:1935/ The CMD window has: DEBUG: Command: .\get_iplayer.cmd --encoding-locale=UTF-8 --encoding-console-o ut=UTF-8 --nopurge --nocopyright --showoptions DEBUG: Command: .\get_iplayer.cmd --encoding-locale=UTF-8 --encoding-console-o ut=UTF-8 --nopurge --nocopyright --showoptions DEBUG: Command: .\get_iplayer.cmd --encoding-locale=UTF-8 --encoding-console-o ut=UTF-8 --nopurge --nocopyright --listplugins INFO: Listening on 127.0.0.1:1935 And at the bottom the cryptic message is: Waiting for localhost In the browser tab - Chrome - a progress arrow goes round - slowly - anti-clockwise. And nothing happens. The PVM page simply refuses to display. Yet the browser still connects to email, and browses the web OK. Indeed I can access just about any page on the web. I've tried using IE (latest version for Win 7), and copying and pasting http://localhost:1935/ into the URL address field, and again I get Waiting for localhost and nothing more. I've tried closing down the computer and restarting it. Yet as soon as I click on the PVM icon, and the Command Window gets to INFO: Listening on 127.0.0.1:1935 with a new browser tab opened, I still get nothing and the message Waiting for localhost This issue has effectively stopped me from downloading everything and anything. CJB. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Localhost not starting up ...
On Fri Jun 5 23:29:47 BST 2015, CJB wrote: Things were great yesterday (Thursday) (snip) Sadly things today (Friday) have not gone well. I'm out of my depth here (???) - I was about to say that only YOU know what could have changed in your system between yesterday and today (e.g. MS updates, MSE definitions files, other AntiVirus used definition updates etc.) when I just saw a quasi-relevant post on the Support Forum: https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/topic/web-pvr-manager-fails-to-fork-after-a-day-or-so/ (one system also being Win7). Do not have a Win7 box here to try and reproduce... Given the user share of Win7, if this is a more general issue, expect more reports in the list/forum... In the meantime, can you ping localhost? In an administrator command prompt window (Start - Start search field type: cmd - right click the cmd.exe result and run as admin - this opens: C:\Windows\system32 type: ping localhost (without quotes), if localhost (i.e. your own computer) is running, you'll get something like: Pinging (name of PC) [::1] from ::1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from ::1: time1ms Reply from ::1: time1ms Reply from ::1: time1ms Reply from ::1: time1ms Ping statistics for ::1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms C:\Windows\system32 It may also be that another app on your machine is using port 1935, so there might be a port conflict... Or for whatever reason port 1935 may have been blocked (firewall rule?) As a longshot, please also try http://stackoverflow.com/a/873778 (backup your hosts file first: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts - if you mess it up you'll lose all internet connections... Search the net on how to enable hosts file editing on Win7) This issue has effectively stopped me from downloading everything and anything. This is an over-dramatised hyperbole... Have you tried the CLI? If it works (most probably), it can do the same (and much more) as the GUI - ample instructions on how to use the CLI on the GiP Wiki: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#command-usage https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/manpage If the CLI doesn't work at all, then you've got a serious problem on your hands... Regards ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
