[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2007-01-18 Thread davehedgehog
pfradique;165484 Wrote: > > Well, to the practical side now, I tried the documented way of > installing (from NSLU2-Linux site) and got this error: > # ./build-perl-modules.pl > Can't locate File/Which.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN CPAN /opt/lib/perl5/5.8.8/armv5b-linux

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2007-01-03 Thread pfradique
Hi Fletch, Thanks for the help. I think I'll stick with 6.3.1 for now... a bit too complicated to restart with, I havenĀ“t used linux for some 6/7 years now. Possibly some merciful soul will build an rpm for the 6.5 version for nslu2. I'll post in the 3rd party hardware asking... maybe someone w

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-12-30 Thread Fletch
pfradique;165891 Wrote: > I have installed which using - "ipkg install which". I don't know anything about how NSLU2 linux works. Is it just Debian? If so, you probably need a package called libfile-which-perl, or something similar. You can also install from CPAN if necessary. I doubt the pa

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-12-30 Thread pfradique
Hi, thanks for your reply. I have installed which using - "ipkg install which". How can i assure it's done right? thanks again. Pedro -- pfradique pfradique's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8184

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-12-29 Thread Fletch
pfradique;165484 Wrote: > Can't locate File/Which.pm in @INC This means that you have to install the Perl File::Which module. -- Fletch Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thre

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-12-28 Thread pfradique
Hi all, I understand it's not easy, but if it's possible, maybe I can get it to work ok... First of all, thanks to all the people that contributed to make this possible, I bought the NSLU exclusively for this... Well, to the practical side now, I tried the documented way of installing (from NSLU

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-11-19 Thread bpa
Mplayer currently won't work well on any ARM processor because most of the codecs use floating point which is very slow on the ARM processor type/speed used in nslu2 and many other NASs. I think lame may also use floating point. -- bpa -

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-11-19 Thread tyddynonn
Finally succeeeded - ref my post above - Went back and installed mysql 'ipkg install mysql' Then tried build-perl-modules again - this time, got a different problem with the first module - see the posts at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27844 So, followed the advice there: -

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-11-19 Thread tyddynonn
Ok, some progress with this... I reinstalled the crosstool-native package (ipk install crosstool-native -force-reinstall) to get my /opt/armeb directory back.. Added the paths mentioned in the thread above (/opt/bin, /opt/armeb/bin) - still no joy Found that gcc was living in /opt/armeb/armv5b-

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-11-19 Thread Ramage
Fixed the Windows Media problem by using FW55 to match 6.3.1. -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux ClarkConnect 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10145, Alien 1.06 P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10638 - Windows XP, Alien 1.06 NSLU2 Unslung 6.8b SlimServer Version: 6.3.1 - 8476 - Linux - EN

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-11-19 Thread Ramage
Tried Lame (ipkg install lame) but using bit-rate limiting just froze slimserver - perhaps the hardware (ram/processor) is just not man enough to run lame. Dread to think what mplayer would do to it! Any views? -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux ClarkConnect 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10145, Al

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-11-18 Thread Ramage
Similar experience to the other posters on this thread - "make ***[Zlib.o}Error 127". Ignored it and ran SS 6.3.1 (bpa's tarball) anyway. Music scanned with no trouble and quite quickly, and everything works OK except it will not play wma files to SB. Anyone else have this problem, and any idea

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-11-18 Thread tyddynonn
I too have had the problem with building SlimServer 6.5 referred to at the top of this thread ('armv5b-softfloat-linux-gcc not found') Looking at the /opt/armeb/bin directory, it looks like the symlink for gcc is not set up correctly... might this be a problem with unslung-devel? However in look

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-11-17 Thread lars_p_fink
I found a pre-compiled tar-ball (http://homepage.eircom.net/~altondsl/slim/SlimServer_v6.3.1arm.tar.gz) of SlimServer 6.3.1 on OpenFSG Forums (http://www.openfsg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9964#9964) that works on Unslung 5.8Beta. Just unpack it and run it, don't try to compile. Many thanks to Bry

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-11-05 Thread TonyM
Hi All, Did anyone get to the bottom of the problem highlighted at the top of page 2 of this thread? I have tried SS 6.5.0 on my Slug but it runs far too slowly for me to consider useful and so I have been trying SS 6.3.1 instead, which installs ok (when following the standard installation instru

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-09-25 Thread Robin Bowes
Dan Sully wrote: > Locking & real transactions are the main things, table constraints are > secondary. MySQL silently turns InnoDB tables into MyISAM tables if > InnoDB is > not available, which is why commenting out the innodb config line works. If it will work without innodb, can I suggest that

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-09-25 Thread Dan Sully
* abagos shaped the electrons to say... Is there something that makes Inno_DB support completely necessary? The NSLU2 is a hardware with limited resources, therefore the available package of MySQL was compiled without Inno_DB support. I can still try to compile and install MySQL on my own, howev

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-09-25 Thread abagos
Dan Sully;139206 Wrote: > * abagos shaped the electrons to say... > > >directory (normally you pass this with an option), and uses it as a > >configuration file for the mysqld instance it starts. Don't edit > this, > >it is overwritten every time. Instead, edit the file "my.tt" in the > >SlimSer

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-09-24 Thread agent_tom_smith
Thank you Alexandros, the only thing i missed the last to days was using a non root user! It's working now. Tom -- agent_tom_smith agent_tom_smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7634 View this

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-09-24 Thread Dan Sully
* abagos shaped the electrons to say... directory (normally you pass this with an option), and uses it as a configuration file for the mysqld instance it starts. Don't edit this, it is overwritten every time. Instead, edit the file "my.tt" in the SlimServer/MySQL directory and comment out the li

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-09-24 Thread abagos
agent_tom_smith;139131 Wrote: > Hello Alexandros, > > how did you manage to run slimserver 6.5 on a Unslung 6.8? > AFAIK mysql on Unslung does not have innodb support. I ran into trouble > trying to install the slimserver on my little device. > > greetings Tom Hi Tom, First, you must have a n

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-09-24 Thread agent_tom_smith
Hello Alexandros, how did you manage to run slimserver 6.5 on a Unslung 6.8? AFAIK mysql on Unslung does not have innodb support. I ran into trouble trying to install the slimserver on my little device. greetings Tom -- agent_tom_smith -

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-09-23 Thread abagos
As a heads up, upgrading to 6.5.0 solved the problems I was having with 6.3.1 on Unslung 6.8. Similar workarounds are needed to do the compilation and I still get warnings during the building of the modules, but it works fine. Additional tricks are needed however, because of the transition to MySQ

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-09-02 Thread Andrew L . Weekes
[]quote]Couldn't find a valid dynamic library for Compress-Zlib-1.33.tar.gz I think the needed file is in Perl-devel(?) I've had similar problems trying to build the Perl modules on a command-line only install I'm trying to do for 6.5, I've finally succeded this afternoon, but it was largely thr

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-08-30 Thread patrickslug
having the same type of problems: # export PATH # echo $PATH /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/opt/armeb/bin # /usr/local/SlimServer_v6.3.1/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl Welcome to the Slim Devices perl module installer. These packages are needed for SlimServer 6 to function. You wil

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-08-30 Thread weekesd
My primary slug is running slimserver 6.3.1 fine (it had already been running 6.2.2 for several months). I have just installed a secondary slug (as a backup) and have the same problems noted here. So far the only difference I can see in the build is that slug #1 has perl 5.8.6, whereas slug #2 h

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-08-30 Thread abagos
Same problem here too. I've tried putting just one song in the library which I can find only in "Browse All Music". Still then when I press "play" it displays an error message "can't play song" or similar and nothing happens. I assume it has to do with perl. -- abagos Alexandros Bagos

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-08-29 Thread Headworx
I have the same problem. After adding the above suggested Path the build process went through (although with some warnings) and now it sits there indexing the music, but nothing gets indexed in fact. -- Headworx Headworx's

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-08-29 Thread janhaubrich
I have been playing around with this a little now. Slimserver starts up fine but I cannot add music to the library. It seems to me I have a problem with the database. From the logfile, I get errors like this: DBD::SQLite::db prepare_cached failed: no such table: tracks(1) at dbdimp.c line 268 at

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-08-28 Thread janhaubrich
Adding the path did the trick for me. I also got some warnings but slimserver is starting up! I also added this info to the install-doc mentioned above. Thanks a lot! -- janhaubrich janhaubrich's Profile: http://forums.sl

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-08-28 Thread abagos
I had the same problem after recently setting up my NSLU2 with Unslung 6.8 (two days ago). For some reason the Makefile created (I assume after running "perl Makefile.PL" for each package) defines "armv5b-softfloat-linux-gcc" as the compiler command instead of "gcc" which is in the path. I solved

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-08-28 Thread janhaubrich
Hmm. I'm not sure it has something to do with it? Compress-Zlib-1.33.tar.gz gets downloaded and uncompressed. The subsequnet step with make fails... I will however try installing lwp and post my findings here. Thanks, Jan -- janhaubrich -

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-08-28 Thread bpa
Recently on a SuSe system where builds had worked they now failed. If curl (because lwp was not installed) was used by build to retrieve Zlib - it failed. When I installed lwp it worked ok. The build script can use lwp, curl or wget to fetch modules from Slimserver, lwp is first preference. --

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-08-28 Thread Headworx
The SlimServer build script is 100% OK. It worked for me a week ago (I tried to use the same version now). The only thing that might have changed have been the unslung-devel package or perl package (these are downloaded from the Internet, so I cannot check what version I run before when everything

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problems with building on NSLU2

2006-08-28 Thread janhaubrich
I have unslung my nslu2 with unslung 6.8 beta. So far everything worked fine and as expected. I proceeded by installing the following packages as described on http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Applications/SlimServer: - dropbear - unslung-feeds - perl - unslung-devel - which - expat untared Slimse