Bugzilla – Bug 6011
New setup wizard produces Disk error / also displays blank folder selection screen
Last modified: 2007-11-05 04:34:52 UTC
(moving this to its own bug, from bug 5536) I just tried upgrading from 6.5.4 to 7.0a (Nov. 2 EXE build) and I get very strange behavior: a) I got a persistant error message, "Windows - No Disk" (screenshot) b) Even though I already had a music folder defined from 6.5.4's pref, it still opened the Music Folder selection wizard. b) The above Music Folder selection wizard was blank (screenshot) The steps that got me there... 1. uninstalled SqueezeCenter, deleting folders 2. installed 6.5.4, setting music and playlist folders 3. confirmed 6.5.4 was running with good scanned library 4. installed 7.0a on top of 6.5.4 5. SqueezeCenter did not start up by itself. I had to manually start it. 6. On starting, I got the "Windows - No Disk" error. Had to click past it maybe 20 times. 7. SC wizard opened and asked for Music Folder and Playlist folder. But the browse panels were empty. (it had the right path entered though.) 8. After wizard completed, SC appeared to running fine.
Created attachment 2339 [details] Screenshot of "disk error" popup
Created attachment 2340 [details] Screenshot of blank setup Wizard screen
(comment from Michael Herger 2007-11-02 16:10) I remember having seen similar messages with empty diskette drives. Do you by any chance have an empty CD-R in your drive or something else Windows can't read? Or a flash card reader without flash cards? If you do, try removing them and see whether this behaviour is reproducable. The white screen imho is due to some timeout, very likely due to the above issue.
Michael, actually I did have a blank DVD-R in my drive at the time. I'll try reproducing without the disc in the drive.
Change 14370 - The problem was due to the code verifying if a given path was a directory or not. With inaccessible drives such as blank disks of floppies this lead to timeouts and ugly messages. I've added some code which will prevent that test by assuming Windows drive letters are always folders (even if they're empty). Please re-open this bug if needed. Thanks!