Bugzilla – Bug 3543
Slim Tray stalls on 'Slimserver Starting' on new Windows install
Last modified: 2008-12-18 11:11:39 UTC
XP / 6.5b1 14 June Nightly Installing on a machine that has never had any version of slimserver on it before, on first start the process stalls continuously showing 'Slimserver Starting'. Killing SlimTray and restarting it results in the same behaviour. However, re-running the install from the exact same downloaded file starts slimserver correctly. So I'm guessing something doesn't get initialised/created in the right order or something. I've seen this before, and seen reports before, so I reckon it's a bug that's existed for sometime, but is generally ignored because people put it down to finger trouble the first time around. Probably a PITA to find as I'm guessing that you need a fresh XP box to test each time.
Should be fixed in change 7973
Leaving this assigned to me so I can actually test it when I have a minute.
(In reply to comment #2) > Leaving this assigned to me so I can actually test it when I have a minute. I have precisely this problem. Reinstall fixes it. Then next boot-up the program hangs on "starting" but never starts. I have just bought a squeezebox and haven't been able to get it to find slimserver, so I haven't even had it working for one second yet. Could someobody tell me now to actually fix this? Thanks.
I just installed the latest 6.5 nightly on my Windows XP laptop and had exactly this problem. After running the installer and telling slimtray to start slimserver, it just sat there saying that slimserver was starting. Closer examination showed that slimserver had not even been installed as a windows service. By manually running "slim.exe -install", closing slimtray.exe then "net start slimserver", I was able to get it going. When I had installed slimserver I unticked the start slimserver automatically checkbox. I suspect this is what caused the service to not get installed. Obviously, slimserver can never start if it hasn't been installed as a service so this is far from desirable.
Grant, please contact support@slimdevices.com for help getting up and running.
This is what we recommend when this issue occurs: If it isn't, to install it as a service: - click start - click run - type in: "C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slim.exe" -remove NOTE: type in everything after type in:, including the quotes! - type in: "C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slim.exe" -install - hit enter, and reboot If its of interest to anyone, I seem to be able to reproduce this bug more than 50% of the time I install SlimServer on my Dell PC.
Setting the target to 7.0, still assigned to me to nail down how to reproduce. I'm hopeful I can use perl win32::guitest to reproduce this very consistently.
Dan is working on a solution to this issue. I've seen a preliminary version and it looks good so far.
The new SlimTray.exe is in the 6.5.1 builds
I've seen this problem in 6.5.0 not related to install. Doing a server stop (using slimtray) followed by a start sometimes gets what's described. If you open services, you see that the server is stopped. You can start it with the start button in services, and then slimtray notices that it's started. So it appears to me that slimtray sometimes silently fails to start the service and then waits for it to start. Possibly because the service hasn't really stopped yet?
Marking this as fixed - please use a 6.5.1 build. Thanks