Slimdevices guys,
Thank you a million for this wonderful software/hardware combination.
I use mine daily, and tell everyone I know about it. I have a friend
who has been looking for an whole-house audio solution for a while now,
and I am pushing him hard to buy your 2SB+NAS bundle off the web site.
I am a debian user, but he is a windows user, so I am hoping that the
NAS will 'just work' for him.
Yesterday, I had him over to my house to show him the whole system,
show him how the remote control UI works, and how the web-based UI
works. Things went well. Until he went to change the skin. Note
above that I said that I am a Debian user. So Debian cannot
redistribute the slimdevices stuff, because of certain copyright
problems in the skins.
I did what any self-respecting slimserver pitch-man would do. I read
the web pages, added a line to my /etc/apt/sources.list file, and did
'apt-get update ; dpkg --purge slimserver ; apt-get install
slimserver'. That's where my problems started. They still haven't
ended. I was able to rescue the system with a quick revert back to the
debian package, and a "Well, I don't know what's going on , but let's
try the debian version again. I can show you skins some other
time....."
What problems am I having with the slimdevices provided package?
First off, I had the error
060904 10:01:28 [ERROR] Error message file
'/usr/share/slimserver/MySQL/errmsg.sys' had only 463 error messages,
but it should contain at least 466 error messages.
Check that the above file is the right version for this program!
060904 10:01:28 [ERROR] Aborting
Google pointed me to these forums, and I was able to symlink to the
correct errmsg.sys file.
Now, the problem is one of a more difficult sort. I surf to port 9000,
and see the default interface. When I click on "Server Settings", I get
the following error:
404 Not Found: setup.html
Try adding page=SERVER_SETTINGS.
# pwd
/usr/share/slimserver
# grep -rni "try adding" *
strings.txt:1778: EN Try adding page=SERVER_SETTINGS.
OK, looking in strings.txt.... the string I want is called
SETUP_BAD_PAGE_SUGGEST
# pwd
/usr/share/slimserver
# grep -rni SETUP_BAD_PAGE_SUGGEST *
strings.txt:1776:SETUP_BAD_PAGE_SUGGEST
#
So I am at a loss. SETUP_BAD does show up in a few places...
# grep -rni SETUP_BAD_ *
HTML/EN/html/docs/.svn/text-base/plugins.html.svn-base:198:<dt>rejectMsg</dt><dd>template
for rejected value message (defaults to
'$client->string('SETUP_BAD_VALUE')%s'), this will be sprintf'd to
stick in the value</dd>
HTML/EN/html/docs/plugins.html:198:<dt>rejectMsg</dt><dd>template for
rejected value message (defaults to
'$client->string('SETUP_BAD_VALUE')%s'), this will be sprintf'd to
stick in the value</dd>
Plugins/iTunes/.svn/text-base/Plugin.pm.svn-base:213:
'rejectMsg' => string('SETUP_BAD_FILE'),
Plugins/iTunes/.svn/text-base/Plugin.pm.svn-base:221:
'rejectMsg' => string('SETUP_BAD_DIRECTORY'),
Plugins/iTunes/Plugin.pm:213: 'rejectMsg' =>
string('SETUP_BAD_FILE'),
Plugins/iTunes/Plugin.pm:221: 'rejectMsg' =>
string('SETUP_BAD_DIRECTORY'),
strings.txt:1776:SETUP_BAD_PAGE_SUGGEST
strings.txt:4068:SETUP_BAD_FILE
strings.txt:4079:SETUP_BAD_DIRECTORY
strings.txt:6439:SETUP_BAD_VALUE
#
But never the one which I am looking for.
As an aside, why doesn't slimdevices offload this package creation
stuff to the Debian people? They are more than willing to create a
package which works with their OS, and which will serve the needs of
their users, but (as I understand it) the artwork is under a license
that they cannot use. Is the artwork that much of a crown jewel to
slimdevices? It looks like any of us can download it without as much
as a "howya doin'", so how important can it be?
I realize that you right now only have a nightly build being done as a
debian package, thanks for throwing us a bone. I guess. How often
does it break like this? It is really difficult to recommend your
latest software to someone when I can't get it to work, and obviously,
I am not someone who can barely find their way around a command line.
:-)
Any chance of an artwork license change?
Ah, I see the following:
-Slim Devices logos, graphics, animations, and documentation are
(c) Slim Devices and are not licensed for redistribution. When in
doubt look for a GPL notice at the top of the file, or ask us for
written permission to redistribute, which we will grant for any
reasonable purpose.
Which, of course, still makes them not usable for Debian. Rats. Maybe
if it went into non-free....
Now I have to decide whether to use your nightly up-to-date package
which may or may not break every time I 'apt-get -u upgrade', the
source tarball with someone else's debian startup scripts, or the one
from Debian which "Just works".
Oh, a quick search of the forums shows that Debian has an 7.xalpha in
their unstable release. I wonder how well that one will work....
Thanks,
Rob
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