Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Need troubleshooting help for LMS installation on Debian

2021-10-14 Thread mrw
Janne00 wrote: > I made a new Debian Bullseye installation (without GUI) on an old FitPC > with an Intel Atom processor (i386). > It looks like Logitech Media Server 8.3.0 is running and Perl 5.32.1 as > well. How do you know LMS is running ? --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread mrw
Carbon Copy Cloner on a mac can sync between a mac and networked drive. In my case, from my iTunes folder on my mac direct to the USB disk attached to my LMS server. The USB disk being shared by the LMS server using samba. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian packages update - Possible dpkg failure

2021-09-03 Thread mrw
Bumping this thread as LMS has a new dependency. mrw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38299 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108744 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Feature request: mDNS for LMS page when installed

2020-12-30 Thread mrw
mherger wrote: > And I believe in some really early version of LMS (then probably still > slimserver or even SliMP3.pl!) we did provide mDNS announcements. > And you even registered two service types: Code: slimcli SliMP3 Server Command-Line Interface sli

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Feature request: mDNS for LMS page when installed

2020-12-30 Thread mrw
Paul Webster wrote: > mDNS like DNS is for hostname/ip address lookup - AFAIK it cannot return > a port number (9000 in your new example). Although it does allow for service discovery, with port numbers, for example a pointer to an http/html based "Set up page" on a printer. Apple's Safari use

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-11 Thread mrw
mvordeme wrote: > Alright, I decided to change my mindset and try to get to the bottom of > this myself. This looks very much like a connection leak. > > LMS running for half a day: > > Code: > > tc@piCoreServer:~$ netstat -tnp > netstat: can't scan /proc - are you r

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-11-18 Thread mrw
slartibartfast wrote: > I had to look that up. The OP wouldn't have the issues he is having > without the "Carons" I hope they're resolved. I am contemplating pCP as a next step over the next few months, but I have plenty of Dvořák to be dealt with... --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-11-18 Thread mrw
slartibartfast wrote: > I saw Pavel Sporcl playing.at the Rudolfinum in Prague with the Wihan > Quartet in 2013. Tickets were £8.[emoji3] I bet it would have cost more if he'd been wearing a ˇCaronˇ or two :) mrw's Profil

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-11-18 Thread mrw
Ernestu wrote: > I have precisely de the same problem with eastern European characters on > mounted CIFS shares. Usually, I need to precise iocharset=utf8 to fix > that, but mount failed (via command line) "mount error(79): Can not > access a needed shared library". > There's no nls_utf8.ko modu

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-11-17 Thread mrw
ian_heys wrote: > I've done that and the only difference is "bsize=1048576" appears in the > new pCp 7.0.0 options (the one which doesn't register filenames with > extended characters). Have you tried explicitly setting -iocharset- as an additional option ? I'm thinking -iocharset=utf8- to be ap

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-11-14 Thread mrw
ian_heys wrote: > > Is the utf-8 in pCp 7.0.0 the same as the utf-8 in pCp 6.1.0 and would > this affect the scan anyway? You could investigate at the OS level by logging in to each Pi (ssh) and comparing file listings of the shared drive obtained with the 'ls' command. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-11-13 Thread mrw
ian_heys wrote: > > but why does the first system not complain? > Well, I don't know which is your first system, nor what it would be complaining of. :) I suppose you have the same version of LMS on both ? Another potential source of different behaviour. Reference your other post in another p

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-11-13 Thread mrw
ian_heys wrote: > I don't know how to specify the file name character set but I have the > following identical options set on the Setup Network Disk Mount pages on > both systems > > uid=1001,gid=50,vers=2.0 Well, I don't use pCP, and I don't know what mount options your remote file system wou

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-11-13 Thread mrw
ian_heys wrote: > I've checked and the tracks shown in the log are definitely available on > the pi 3B system and definitely not available on the pi 4 system. > > This only became apparent when pCp 7.0.0 beta was released. Pretty sure > I had LMS 8.0.0 running on the pi4 on pCp 6.1.0 and it sho

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-11-03 Thread mrw
BobSammers wrote: > Not very well. You can install Avahi in the container (and it works), > but Docker won't share ports, so if you port forward to the container, > Avahi on the host has to be disabled and only one container can have the > mDNS port. Ok. My lxc instances set up an ethernet brid

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-11-03 Thread mrw
BobSammers wrote: > Thank you mrw. I'm not quite clear on what happens in every case, but I > believe that the requirement is often dynamic I twigged after posting. As you say, it will depend on what an individual plugin does. The simple copy/remove trick could offer a poor man&#x

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-11-03 Thread mrw
mrw wrote: > I don't know if the attached two files will be of any assistance On reflection, I realize that what is being referred to is mDNS advertising of, for example, ShairTunesW player instances. I can remark that this works fine from an lxc container provided -avahi-daemon- is i

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-11-03 Thread mrw
BobSammers wrote: > Several common use cases require mDNS advertising (phillipe's plugins, > including the recently discussed ShairTunes2W, Spotify Connect, etc.). > We discussed this earlier on in this thread, but I don't think it was > resolved. Is there intended to be a way of enabling mDNS a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-10-25 Thread mrw
mherger wrote: > >>> > >>> 404 Not Found: > >> plugins/Extensions/settings/plugins/ShairTunes2W/settings/basic.html > >>> > > That URL is invalid, and this unfortunately is an issue which shows up > every now and then. Never have been able to nai

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian packages update - Possible dpkg failure

2020-10-14 Thread mrw
Man in a van wrote: > I still had to add libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl for philippe_44 ShairTune > Plugin :( It's not actually a dependency of LMS, which is why it never went into the dependency list. And I wasn't using the ShairTune plugin at the time. Maybe there's a case for adding the dependen

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Manjaro update kills LMS

2020-07-17 Thread mrw
albright wrote: > > Code: > > This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 0 (v5.32.0) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi > > There is no support for perl v5.32 in LMS at present. Will Manjaro allow you to install perl v5.30 in place of perl v5.32 ?

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Manjaro update kills LMS

2020-07-17 Thread mrw
Might help to know what version of perl is installed: Code: perl --version mrw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38299 View this thread: http://

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS very unresponsive after upgrade from 7.9.1 to 7.9.2

2020-06-14 Thread mrw
GoodVibrations wrote: > I can't find any solution mentioned anywhere by the original poster, > drmatt. No harm in asking on that thread. You never know, he may have found a solution later. GoodVibrations wrote: > > This whole mess has been a disheartening experience. > I sympathize. Time spe

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS very unresponsive after upgrade from 7.9.1 to 7.9.2

2020-06-14 Thread mrw
GoodVibrations wrote: > > > Trackstat starts refreshing and now the system hangs again!! > My guess, it will hang for around 2 hours. > > My conclusion: > Trackstat has become useless after 7.9.1. Someone else reported problems with Trackstat after upgrading to 7.9.2. Perhaps they have solve

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Need help installing on Debian 10

2019-12-18 Thread mrw
1uke_ wrote: > > FINAL QUESTIONS > > > > > - Would using Debian 9 give me access to 5.26? - - Would I be able to install Logitech media server on Debian 9? > > > Debian 9 gives you perl 5.24. LMS seems to have x32 binaries for that, and, yes, LMS works fine on Debian 9.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS restart error: Found left-over process 441 (squeezeboxserve)

2019-11-14 Thread mrw
mi6 wrote: > Do you have any good resources on how to properly install LMS on > Raspbian? Here’s how I install a downloaded LogitechMediaServer Debian ‘deb’ package on a Debian-like system: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108744-Debian-packages-update-Possible-dpkg-failure&highlig

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS restart error: Found left-over process 441 (squeezeboxserve)

2019-11-14 Thread mrw
Have you inadvertently mucked around with -/usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver_safe- or -/etc/init.d/logitechmediaserver- or something else ? This makes no sense to me: > > CGroup: /system.slice/logitechmediaserver.service > ├─2885 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver_safe > /usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS restart error: Found left-over process 441 (squeezeboxserve)

2019-11-14 Thread mrw
I find that if I wait for a few seconds ( 3 ?, 5 ? ) after stopping, then any "stray" processes will clear themselves out. mrw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38299 View this thread: http://forum

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspbian, Pi 3 B+ and LMS : scan problem with encoding

2019-09-15 Thread mrw
Franck@ wrote: > Your remarks forced me to have a fresh look at the problem ... problem > solved now! You saved my weekend! I did not work for nothing! It’s always pleasing to learn that one has contributed towards solving a problem. I did not anticipate that wholesale slaughter of your cue files

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspbian, Pi 3 B+ and LMS : scan problem with encoding

2019-09-15 Thread mrw
Franck@ wrote: > > Do you have an idea ? > Not really. Perhaps there are two problems: The -server.log- indicates some kind of issue when full text scanning. It might be worth stopping LMS and deleting -/var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/library.db-. Then restart and try again. The -syslog- su

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Extreme SD card support flakiness

2018-12-08 Thread mrw
It doesn't look very happy. Assuming it is the card that is at fault, maybe reformatting it with the SD Association software would help. There again, maybe not. https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/index.html I destroyed my first two cards about 8 years ago (before RPi's were born). Since then I've

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] logitech media server not visible on port

2018-11-19 Thread mrw
parsifal9 wrote: > I did that and it all seems to be working now. It made several log > files, perfmon.log, scanner.log and server.log. I have inserted the following into my /etc/rc.local to guard against this occurrence: Code: # Make sure that Squeezebox server's l

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian packages update - Possible dpkg failure

2018-02-25 Thread mrw
DJanGo wrote: > The changes in apt 1.1 (allow to install local packages) are very nice. > tbh - i didnt knew about that without this topic. > > I've added / changed that in the Wiki 'Article' > (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Debian_Package). > > cheers That doesn't work for the -apt- o

[SlimDevices: Unix] Debian packages update - Possible dpkg failure

2018-02-22 Thread mrw
The Debian package builds (.debs) have recently been updated to declare some additional dependencies on external packages. This may cause some initial difficulty for those users who use -dpkg- to install LMS. Users who use -apt-get-, or a similar package manager, should experience no issues, as t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-14 Thread mrw
JohnSwenson wrote: > - > RAW IR receivers only cost a few dollars, the problem is getting them > into the computer and a linux driver to talk to them. A raw IR receiver > doesn't send out messages, its a complex stream of high frequency > pulses, something has to read those pulses and decode them

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Automount network drive - how?

2012-03-06 Thread mrw
d to accept a slight delay when the drive is 'mounted on demand'. So far it seems to be doing what I want. -- mrw mrw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38299 View this thread: h

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS on Raspberry Pi

2012-03-05 Thread mrw
gharris999;694130 Wrote: > This should be a popular question. I wonder if anyone here got one? It would appear that the answer will shortly be "Yes": http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=693216#post693