Bugzilla – Bug 1699
Service stops Web interface becomes inaccessible
Last modified: 2008-08-18 10:54:16 UTC
After playing for a while the slim server service drops or loses connection, or the the service stops, the WEB interface is then inaccessible. Seems to happen when I try to change play lists, or in the middle of a play list while the server is changing songs. So far I've not been able to exactly replicate the problem. I'm not sure of the "exact command line argument for getting the debugging or where logs are keep. The service starts automatically on startup, and when I have a problem I restart the service. I could put a command line argument in the "path to executable" field of the service properties box would it be "D:\path\SlimServer\server\slim.exe --diag" ? I running on a PIV 2.99Ghz 1GB RAM using XP Pro, SP2. Also, I'm running MusicMagic Mixer, and have it running as a service also using srvany.exe (may have something to do with the problem, I started having the problem after I got all CD converted and loaded on server and statered using the MMM, problem is most noticable when using playlists. I not tried using just Albums.
How large is the playlist that is playing? (Approx) Your command line looks correct. In order to isolate the problem - could you try running without MusicMagic? Thanks.
Playlist are usually 20 songs. It turns out that I'll have to edit the registery to add the arg... will try that tonight. The system has been running error free since turning off MMM. But I'll do more testing tonight. But I'm beginning to think there is an interoperability issue with MMM at least when it is running as a service...
I have been having the same problems since around the time of the first reporter of this bug. Same symptoms - web interface hangs but SB works fine for browsing and playing. I can provoke it reasonably consistently by performing a search (from the Default skin), although that's by no means the only way to make it hang. It happens pretty regularly. I'm running slimserver latest 6.1 (revision #3569 today), on Gentoo Linux. I think something that may be significant is the browser - I'm using Firefox 1.0.4. When I view Slimserver through Internet Explorer, however, it seems to work fine. Do the other reporters of this bug run IE or FF, I wonder? I suspect it might be something to do with that fancy stuff to try to make caching of images work better, as I think that went in around the same time.
"Do the other reporters of this bug run IE or FF, I wonder?" I'm running Safari on Mac OSX Tiger. I haven't tried other browsers yet to see if the bug occurs on those as well.
I'm running with IE... but I've not really had the ploblem since I've stopped running MusicMagic as a service, however I've not tried starting MMM as a serive and seeing if the problem starts again, maybe I'll have time this weekend. In addition I just upgraded to 6.1b1 today, so I should try starting the MMM runni9ng as a service again to see what happens. I do hope that even if it is a bug that involves MMM it can be resolved as I really like having the MMM service running and being able to make playlists using MMM.
I believe my problem was actually 'piplining' being enabled in Firefox (which I believe was today separately raised as bug #1755). I'm not sure if these two bugs are duplicates, but I believe my problems are solved by turning off pipelining ("network.http.pipelining" in about:config in Firefox).
There was a recent fix to MMM, that closed off some http connections that had been left open. Any 6.1 nightly build July 2 or newer should see the benefits of this fix. This may have fixed the case of using IE while MMM is enabled. Since Stuart's issue is cleared, we need a confirmation from glmason for MMM and IE.
Will check it Wednesday night (6-6-05) and confirm the fix.
Well I downloaded and installed the window executable from the nightlys 2005_07_06 but I've not been able to test it because there is now no MM button. I've tried running the MMM as a service and I tried just running MMM as an application. The serer must be running because the plugin does say that thea MusicMagic is installed, but I can not get the MM buttons on the web interface.
try disabling and re-enabling in teh server settings->plugins.
Well, well, well... I thought I did that but I guess not completely enough... it works now, I test playlist and changing play list tonight so you can clear up this bug.
Thanks!
This bug was marked resolved in Slimserver 6.1, which is several versions ago. If you're still seeing this bug, please re-open it. Thanks!