Snakeoil Gear Isolation Beta Series

[agent_kith]

That output was for 20.04....

Server edition?

Seems my spare PC is dead... I've just spent the past several hours trying to find out what the problem is... Honestly, the past few days are jinxed... Seems everytime I posted in this forums my plan for the day, and that always went awry.

Own up, who here is a witch/warlock and is hexing me?

[Bromf]

That output was for 20.04....

Server edition?

Yes.
 

Own up, who here is a witch/warlock and is hexing me?

Have we got a user named Murphy ??

Back to the problem of the MPD player not starting...
From what I can tell it may just be a permissions issue.?? 
If I start from Terminal "sudo myMpd' then click on the link in the RestAPI then myMPD starts in a new tab. (and subsequently if I sub running Snakeoil ip and myMPD port I can open any number of tabs...192.168.1.1:8080 in Firefox search bar)

But, if I just click on the RestAPI  'myMPD link' (without starting myMPD from CLI) then Firefox cannot find any connection at 192.168.1.1:8080.  myMPD is not active.

So, when first saving the player state  myMPD is not started so clicking on the link leads to nothing found.
If myMPD is started manually and then the link clicked it works,

[agent_kith]

Own up, who here is a witch/warlock and is hexing me?

Have we got a user named Murphy ??

Seriously though.. Every since I quit my job..
1. Power amp goes out, wasted 2 days to pack/unpack back and forth. Got power amp back after 3 weeks.
2. Got power amp back. Internet goes out. Various calls/emails to support and NBN. NBN site visit. Fixed for 2 weeks, then dead again. Rinse & Repeat This took 2+ months. Gave up and ditched the NBN.
3. Got new Pi for running Snakeoil. Need to configure switch to set up network. Lose access to one switch, no biggie, try to fix it. Lost access to everything. 10 hours gone.
4. Fire up old computer so i can run 20.04 on a physical machine for once (still couldn't get 20.04 to boot on my old Jetway PC). Refuse to POST, gave me 4 beeps. Looked up manual, no such error exist. Whole day wasted. May need to spend this LWE and have a look see what is wrong (take everything apart and back together again)

2021 is still feeling a lot like 2020.

Back to the problem of the MPD player not starting...
From what I can tell it may just be a permissions issue.?? 
If I start from Terminal "sudo myMpd' then click on the link in the RestAPI then myMPD starts in a new tab. (and subsequently if I sub running Snakeoil ip and myMPD port I can open any number of tabs...192.168.1.1:8080 in Firefox search bar)

But, if I just click on the RestAPI  'myMPD link' (without starting myMPD from CLI) then Firefox cannot find any connection at 192.168.1.1:8080.  myMPD is not active.

So, when first saving the player state  myMPD is not started so clicking on the link leads to nothing found.
If myMPD is started manually and then the link clicked it works,

this is so weird... Can you run this and tell me where it's pointing to? (On 20.04)

Code:

which mympd

[Bromf]

this is so weird... Can you run this and tell me where it's pointing to? (On 20.04)

Code:

which mympd

points to..

Code:

/usr/local/bin/mympd

I have had problems with Ubuntu 20.04 server install as it seems to need a EFI partition set up and bootable from for a working installation.
It did install as standard legacy grub but wouldn't boot from that.
There didn't seem to be any option to create an EFI partition from the server install image and I had to do a full Ubuntu desktop install to create the EFI partition then I was able to overwrite it and install the 20.04 server.

[agent_kith]

points to..
 

Code:

/usr/local/bin/mympd

That's good. So it should be working.

So I guess mympd was missing when you install on 16.04? This is strange as it should work, at least it worked on my Jetway PC.

I have had problems with Ubuntu 20.04 server install as it seems to need a EFI partition set up and bootable from for a working installation.
It did install as standard legacy grub but wouldn't boot from that.
There didn't seem to be any option to create an EFI partition from the server install image and I had to do a full Ubuntu desktop install to create the EFI partition then I was able to overwrite it and install the 20.04 server.

I'll double check that (Can only test this on Virtual machines now since I can't boot up my spare machine)... Will do a proper write up on how to do this and put in the wiki I guess once we resolve most of the kinks in this alpha.

Will try and be more pro-active this week. Gotta do more coding, and a lot less listening..

[Bromf]

points to..
 

Code:

/usr/local/bin/mympd

That's good. So it should be working.

No, it's not really working as it won't start from the link on the webpage (unless I ssh in and start it manually first with 'sudo mympd' and then the link works.)
In 18.04 the link works ootb so it something changed in the underlying server o/s between 18.04 and 20.04.

[agent_kith]

No, it's not really working as it won't start from the link on the webpage (unless I ssh in and start it manually first with 'sudo mympd' and then the link works.)
In 18.04 the link works ootb so it something changed in the underlying server o/s between 18.04 and 20.04.

Made some changes in Alpha 4. Previously myMPD will wait up to 10 seconds for MPD to start before quitting. Upping this to 60 seconds now and see if it'll work.

myMPD output is sent to the logs in Alpha4. Generate a diagnostics file if it's still a problem so I can find out what it is.

[agent_kith]

Do not know whether this is a problem or not. 

After a fair bit of going around in circles, managed to get 16.04/1.1.11 (&1.2 Alpha3) running on VirtualBox and playing music via USB.  However, with 20.04/1.2 Alpha3, have problem with network.  I do not think I had the problem with 20.04/1.2 Alpha3 install on NUC, but cannot check because I back on 16.04.  If this is a VirtualBox problem, then please ignore.

I do get an ip addresss and can SSH into instance.  But:

Finally figure out what this problem is. System is missing net-tools package. Have updated the installer to install that also.. Still not going to work with netplan for now. Hopefully to fix that in official release.

Also, can't seem to recreate the problem of computer not shutting down properly. This may be due to me running this as a VM under VirtualBox (and Proxmox), or because of some additional changes I have made in Alpha 4... Are you using NFS/CIFS (network file sharing) in your setup or not? I wonder if this could be an issue. (I'm not using file sharing when testing Snakeoil inside a VM).

[Bromf]

No, it's not really working as it won't start from the link on the webpage (unless I ssh in and start it manually first with 'sudo mympd' and then the link works.)
In 18.04 the link works ootb so it something changed in the underlying server o/s between 18.04 and 20.04.

Made some changes in Alpha 4. Previously myMPD will wait up to 10 seconds for MPD to start before quitting. Upping this to 60 seconds now and see if it'll work.

myMPD output is sent to the logs in Alpha4. Generate a diagnostics file if it's still a problem so I can find out what it is.

I will try it and report as soon as I see Alpha4 linked (Presuming it is not available through a Dashboard update ?)
Do I need to do a full re-install including the Ubuntu server base or will Alpha4 overwrite Alpha3 settings...?

[agent_kith]

I will try it and report as soon as I see Alpha4 linked (Presuming it is not available through a Dashboard update ?)

The dashboard will notify you, but it's only doing this once every 24 hours (Unless you click the refresh button manually). And when the notification comes, it will go back to this thread.

Do I need to do a full re-install or will Alpha4 overwrite Alpha3 settings...?

No need to reinstall the OS, just run the installer again will suffice. I don't think it will override the Alpha 3 settings, but let me know if your settings are lost when running the Alpha4 installer.