Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Media scan dies before it even gets started
Yes! Your fix to Async.pm did the trick. Thank you so much. First time I have ever seen a scan complete. mjb2016's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108590 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Media scan dies before it even gets started
After some experimentation, I found that the problem is that there is an unreadable folder somewhere in the tree, and the scanner aborts rather than ignoring in this situation. I had deliberately made the folder unreadable because I was trying to see if 'DJanGo's suggestion to deny permission to the LMS user' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?106698-Scanner-does-not-avoid-shortcut-loops&p=871628&viewfull=1#post871628) would work and prevent the scanner from following links to folders (since my folder links all point to other folders in the same tree). So that approach does not work. -------- mjb2016's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108590 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Media scan dies before it even gets started
I am using LMS 7.9.0 and am having trouble getting my library (one tree of folders) to scan. Even after deleting the cache, I get the same result every time. During the initial directory scan, after a few seconds, it terminates unexpectedly. Here's the scanner log: Code: [18-01-19 05:43:36.4852] main::main (205) Starting Logitech Media Server scanner (v7.9.0, 1488878280, Wed Mar 8 14:37:44 CUT 2017) perl 5.014001 [18-01-19 05:43:36.6429] Slim::Schema::forceCommit (2149) Warning: Trying to commit transactions before DB is initialized! [18-01-19 05:43:41.8796] Slim::Music::Import::runImporter (511) Starting Slim::Media::MediaFolderScan scan [18-01-19 05:43:41.8800] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Local::rescan (181) Discovering audio files in E:\music [18-01-19 05:43:41.8831] main::main (331) Error: Failed when running main scan: [E:\music: Invalid argument at /File/Next.pm line 217. ] [18-01-19 05:43:41.8834] main::main (332) Error: Skipping post-process & Not updating lastRescanTime! And here is the server log: Code: [18-01-19 05:43:41.9761] Slim::Utils::SQLiteHelper::postConnect (374) Optimizing DB because of missing or empty sqlite_stat1 table [18-01-19 05:43:41.9856] Slim::Schema::forceCommit (2149) Warning: Trying to commit transactions before DB is initialized! What should I try next? ---- mjb2016's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108590 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Contributing to source code / building on Windows
Interesting, thanks. Mainly I want to experiment with 'folder shortcut processing' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?106698-Scanner-does-not-avoid-shortcut-loops) options. Probably 'Slim/Utils/Misc.pm' (https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/blob/public/7.9/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm). Also I'd be happy to contribute to documentation, along the lines of typo fixes and s/SVN/GitHub/g. ---- mjb2016's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106835 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Contributing to source code / building on Windows
I thought I might try to build from source on Windows, experiment a bit and maybe make some contributions to the code, but my attempts to get started and RTFM are not getting very far. The only official documentation I see is Installation.txt, which just has some outdated Unix info. (I say outdated because Perl 5.0 hasn't been on FreeBSD in ages.) There is also http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Logitech_Media_Server_development_on_Windows which says very little, and makes discouraging statements like "The sources that are included with the SlimServer distribution pretty much aren't used under Windows". Plowing ahead anyway, I installed ActivePerl, forked the slimserver and slimserver-platforms repos on GitHub, cloned the forks to my local hard drive. Then I tried running slimserver-platforms\buildme.pl, but it fails immediately because it looks in a nonexistent directory for the release version: Code: E:\docs\private\misc\dev\git_repos\slimserver-platforms>buildme.pl --build win32 --buildDir F:\perltmp --sourceDir E:\docs\private\misc\dev\git_repos\slimserver --destDir E:\apps\LMS INFO: Required variables passed in. Moving forward. Couldn't open E:\docs\private\misc\dev\git_repos\slimserver/server/slimserver.pl to get the version # of this release: No such file or directory Just running the slimserver\slimserver.pl as-is failed as well, and I was admonished to use an older version of ActivePerl (5.14) than what I'm using (5.24.1). Code: E:\docs\private\misc\dev\git_repos\slimserver>perl slimserver.pl The following modules failed to load: EV JSON::XS To run from source on Windows, please install ActivePerl 5.14. ActivePerl 5.10.0 is no longer supported. http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/releases/ Exiting.. So now I figure maybe I should just ask... what's the right way to get going? ---- mjb2016's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106835 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Scanner does not avoid shortcut loops
DJanGo wrote: > when i started i'd used folder links cause that was the only option to > handle more than one harddrive as medialibrary without using a raid > volume. I think that's actually the reason given in the old thread for the server supporting folder links at all. Has it not always been the case that LMS supports more than one media library folder? The way it is now, if you don't mind having each drive's media folder at the top level, it doesn't seem folder links are necessary to solve the multi-drive problem; you just add those folders to the list. DJanGo wrote: > Anyways its your reason and i cant find a needed Way to use them today - > but you could help me - may i find that pretty. Tags and folder hierarchies work great for namevalue pairs and relationship trees, respectively, but they aren't very good at representing a graph (web) of relationships, nor are tag-based "media library" apps/services very sophisticated in the ways they allow you to interact with this information. A "facets" type of interface can be helpful in this regard. So can folder links. When browsing or adding to my files, I want something close to the same kind of flexibility as I would want when I'm interacting with an abstracted view of their metadata. For example, when I browse a diverse media collection "by genre", I don't want be just picking from a flat list of 700 subgenre tag values (and all their variations), and then picking from a flat list of songs under that. Rather, I first want to traverse the [I don't know the word for it...hypergraph?] tree/web thing which allows me to start out by locating the style in terms of increasing specificity and related styles. Then I want the view to switch to whatever is most appropriate for that particular sub-collectione.g., now that I have the music's style, I often want to be able to narrow it down by eras, producers, artists, hits, influences, regions, and so on. For most sub-collections, only certain options will be needed, but this choice will be different for every branch of the tree. Where needed, it should be possible to navigate directly to other categories with closely related subject matter. Creating new categories needs to be convenient as well. Well, all of that is possible (not elegantly, but "good enough") with folder trees and the ability to link between arbitrary folders. So that's what I do for some of the collections I maintain, and I am in the habit of using folder views to locate music. I do have other, relatively specialized/homogeneous collections where I don't need to browse the organizational structure much at all, so for those file sets, I do things in what is nowadays "the normal way", with everything dumped into an arbitrary and shallow folder tree, and tags providing enough info for simplistic keyword searches to get me what I need. This just isn't ideal for the main collection I want to access via my Squeezebox Boom. mjb2016's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106698 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Scanner does not avoid shortcut loops
DJanGo, I'm not sure you are actually interested in the reasons to use recursive folder links; you would rather I just didn't use them, right? If the developers' policy is, as andyg already suggested, that the software should gracefully detect & handle such links (even if that means just ignoring them), and it is not doing that, then it is a bug and it doesn't matter why I am using them; the most helpful thing any of us can do is to ascertain what the expected behavior is, and work on a solution together. The downside of your suggested workarounds to prevent LMS from processing any *.lnk files is that it is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Most shortcuts are harmless links to files or to benign folders. If the developers' policy is that recursive folder links are too difficult to detect and handle within the current scanning system, then surely a better alternative to ignoring all links would be to simply have a toggle in the config so that the affected users can tell the scanner to follow only file links, never folder links. Then at least the file links will still work. If avoiding loops is too difficult and adding the toggle I suggested is not an option, then I know of another workaround. Instead of simple folder shortcuts, I could use the little-known "shell link folder" functionality of Explorer. These types of links are just somewhat inconvenient to set up. I'd rather be sure that no improvements to LMS are forthcoming first. ---- mjb2016's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106698 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Scanner does not avoid shortcut loops
LMS (v7.9.0, 1482423225, Thu Dec 22 16:20:05 CUT 2016) on Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit. Logs attached. +---+ |Filename: logs.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=21765| +---+ mjb2016's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106698 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Scanner does not avoid shortcut loops
Much like forum user Richard Boyce 'asked about in 2009' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?72472-Scanner-looping&p=496622&viewfull=1#post496622), my media library has gobs of Windows folder shortcuts which are causing my scanning process to enter a loop, chasing the same shortcuts and scanning the same folders over and over. This is in both 7.7.5 and a 7.9.0 build I downloaded today. Unlike his situation, it is not a matter of folder contents being modified after a successful scan. I can't even get to a point where the whole library has been scanned. I cleaned the cache and chose "Clear library and rescan everything" from the control panel, but it still gets caught in the loop and I have to abort. I looked and could not find if a bug report was ever filed. I only found one from two years later, '16990' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16990), which was closed as a "works for me". Developer andyg said in that old thread that "There is already some code to deal with loops of shortcuts/symlinks". But it's not working even with the most minimal test case I could think of: create two folders, each containing a symlink to the other, and scan the parent folder. Should I file a new bug report for this? ---- mjb2016's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106698 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
