Snakeoil 1.2.6 Beta 3

[agent_kith]

The plan was to work on the kernel builder. As always the plans went sideways. Kernel builder will come, until then this release fixes a lot of outstanding issues, and add some new experimental features. 32 in all. A lot of changes has been made (See here), all that in just under 2 months.

Included installers, and this should work with Ubuntu Studio and Raspberry Pi. I have yet to test this on the latest Raspberry Pi OS, but will make sure it works before I make this official.

Please report any issues with this, and I'll make this official later this week (or whenever I get the chance to install the new Raspbian OS and verify the installer works on the new OS).

• Improve system stability when handling errors
  
• Improve no-cache meta tags in WebApp
  
• Improved version checking Mk 2 
  
• Fix broken network page in Ubuntu Studio 22.04
  
• Disable logitechmediaserver (LMS) if it's auto-starting by default. Snakeoil should handle LMS start/stop
  
• Improve build CI/CD process: Include pre-release version info in filenames and installers., fix some script bugs, try and use artifact
  
• In TOP, sort process by %CPU and include other useful metrics, while removing non essential one
  
• Include pre-release point information in versionin
  
• Fix BubbleUPnP player startup
  
• Do not ask for AUDIO output configuration for players that do not require it (e.g. upmpdcli
  
• Show which CPU a process is running by adding a P flag in to
  
• Fixed to top of page when running top
  
• Fix several issues with adding playlists to RAM in browser. Fix confusing RAM buttons.
  
• Fixes squeezelite start failure when using option
  
• Do not show error field in api-error component if value is nul
  
• Add new feature to copy files to music folder instead of mounting them in library page
  
• Use system aplay if pulseaudio is installed
  
• Investigate and fix segmentation fault of snakeoil backend server on Ubuntu Studio 22.0
  
• Fixed issue where drives/partitions are not detected as being usable in Music Librar
  
• Update Logitech Media Server to 8.2.1. Spin new installer
  
• Create A Default LMS config for fresh setup
  
• Add Restricted extras to installer
  
• Improve machine CPU type check in installer
  

  snakeoil-installer-armv7l-1.2.6-beta-3.sh (Size: 129.87 MB / Downloads: 2)
  snakeoil-installer-x86_64-1.2.6-beta-3.sh (Size: 112.1 MB / Downloads: 2)
  snakeoil-armv7l-1.2.6-beta-3.fw (Size: 52.53 MB / Downloads: 3)
  snakeoil-x86_64-1.2.6-beta-3.fw (Size: 55.5 MB / Downloads: 4)

[hkphantomgtr]

Thanks a lot, AK!  I hope I can test the installer coming weekend.

[agent_kith]

Oh, before I forget, have tweaked the copy feature in library. It will only ask for your destination path when you click on the copy button, and there are options now to copy the entire contents in the disk, or just the files in the root directory (exclude files). Just realised this only works for the root folder though, not sub-folders... Might improve on that further down the line.

[Snoopy8]

Thank you for the work done. But I have a few things that are not working...

Networking
Missing Ip address in Networking Tab
And Dashboard / Network is still coming soon.  So cannot find Ip address anywhere in SO

Upmpdcli
Get the following error; have uninstalled and reinstalled upmpdcli
Could not open config: /var/www/scratch/upmpdcli.conf
exception: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded): Failed to bind socket: Address already in use

BubbleUPnP Server
Installed correctly
Please make available web page on port 58050  (remote column in music player)
Requires a UPnP renderer to work with Qobuz (waiting for upmpdcli to test)
Requires MinimServer to provide indexing of music (but not tested)

TOP
Shows top of page
Missing "P" (processor) column
Missing Command column; not possible to tell what is running
I normally use stock Top within Putty and pay attention to the following: PID, PR, %CPU, Command, P  to help me work out CPUSet and Process priorities

Browse
Playlist with tracks with "_" (underscore) now work
Please put message after confirm button to tell users that process will take place in background.
Background process may take some time with long lists and slow network

Still cannot copy long playlist.  More testing to be done.

[agent_kith]

Thanks for testing! Appreciate it.

Thank you for the work done. But I have a few things that are not working...

Networking
Missing Ip address in Networking Tab
And Dashboard / Network is still coming soon.  So cannot find Ip address anywhere in SO

Interesting. Wondering why this isn't working. Can you show me the contents of /proc/net/dev please? thanks.

Upmpdcli
Get the following error; have uninstalled and reinstalled upmpdcli
Could not open config: /var/www/scratch/upmpdcli.conf
exception: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded): Failed to bind socket: Address already in use

BubbleUPnP Server
Installed correctly
Please make available web page on port 58050  (remote column in music player)
Requires a UPnP renderer to work with Qobuz (waiting for upmpdcli to test)
Requires MinimServer to provide indexing of music (but not tested)

Will look into these later this weekend.

TOP
Shows top of page
Missing "P" (processor) column
Missing Command column; not possible to tell what is running
I normally use stock Top within Putty and pay attention to the following: PID, PR, %CPU, Command, P  to help me work out CPUSet and Process priorities

Hmm. That should work. I may have done this in the installer script, and not the firmware. Will double check this, and if correct, include this in the firmware update.

Browse
Playlist with tracks with "_" (underscore) now work
Please put message after confirm button to tell users that process will take place in background.
Background process may take some time with long lists and slow network

Still cannot copy long playlist.  More testing to be done.

There should be a pop up saying copying is done in the background. But that last only 5 seconds. As for long playlist, perhaps the copy operation stopped because of a problem (no space left on RAM, etc). Again that should pop up a message also, but again that will disappear very quickly. I'll see if I can disable that timeout, so the user has to acknowledge the errors to make 'em disappear.

[agent_kith]

TOP
Shows top of page
Missing "P" (processor) column
Missing Command column; not possible to tell what is running
I normally use stock Top within Putty and pay attention to the following: PID, PR, %CPU, Command, P  to help me work out CPUSet and Process priorities

Have checked and the top config is upgraded in the firmware, not the installer.

Can you run this and tell me if you have this file?

Code:

sudo ls /root/.config/procps/toprc

If yes, try deleting that file and see how it goes. If no, maybe do a reboot and see if it shows up? You should see the following columns:

Code:

PID    PPID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ P nMaj   SWAP COMMAND

[Snoopy8]

Interesting. Wondering why this isn't working. Can you show me the contents of /proc/net/dev please? thanks.

Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 76102 675 0 0 0 0 0 0 76102 675 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 24727151764 16506874 0 9803 0 0 0 14131 204004569 2507292 0 0 0 0 0 0
 

There should be a pop up saying copying is done in the background. But that last only 5 seconds. As for long playlist, perhaps the copy operation stopped because of a problem (no space left on RAM, etc). Again that should pop up a message also, but again that will disappear very quickly. I'll see if I can disable that timeout, so the user has to acknowledge the errors to make 'em disappear.

I do not see the popup. Using Win 11, Firefox V101.0.1
 

TOP
Shows top of page
Missing "P" (processor) column
Missing Command column; not possible to tell what is running
I normally use stock Top within Putty and pay attention to the following: PID, PR, %CPU, Command, P  to help me work out CPUSet and Process priorities

Have checked and the top config is upgraded in the firmware, not the installer.

Can you run this and tell me if you have this file?
 

Code:

sudo ls /root/.config/procps/toprc

If yes, try deleting that file and see how it goes. If no, maybe do a reboot and see if it shows up? You should see the following columns:

Code:

PID    PPID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ P nMaj   SWAP COMMAND

Forgot to mention earlier; I only did firmware upgrade, not installer. I do not have file. I have done shutdown and restarted.  This is what I see

[agent_kith]

I'll see if I can look at the top issue tonight.

Can you also generate a diagnostic file and send it to me? Hopefully can find out the issue with why Snakeoil couldn't extract the network config info. thanks.

[agent_kith]

TIL (Today I learned), top defaults to 80 columns, there are actually more fields setup. But they are truncated away. Interesting thing is, in my development machine there is strangely no such limitations at all. And this 80 column limit didn't happen on my test machine. But it does when I spin up a new VM.. They're the same Ubuntu version!

Luckily I can specify the width from the command line and that appears to fix this issue. This is a good bug to hunt for, took me ages to finally know what the problem is.. :/

So that's top issue resolved. There's some problem with error reporting, I'll need to clean that up and then see what's wrong with upmpdcli.. Once that is done I'll work on identify the problem with your net config setup @Snoopy8. Have an 8pm meeting tonight so that's probably it for the day, and can only continue later tomorrow and the weekend.

[Snoopy8]

Emailed Diagnostic file a few hours ago...