I've managed to solve the problem by using logitechmediaserver and installing a few extras. I'm still not entirely sure what caused the issue with SBS in the first place, but I'm sure part of the problem (at least where LMS is concerned) is that the table stuctures/ tables differ between SBS 7.6x which is what I was previously running and what LMS expects to see. A further complication (that shouldn't be) is that I use a symbolic link to point SBS/LMS to a different drive and folder that houses the DB.
As I boot my Microserver from a USB stick my SBS/LMS DB is located on a hard drive. This is achieved by symbolic linking /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache to /diskpool/d1/audiolib/zSqueezeDB/. I couldn't get SBS to run regardless of what I did (i.e. with or without the symlink in place). I then decided to try LMS and got the same result - it wouldn't start. Googling for "Squeezebox Server died. Restarting." returned http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Debian_Package as a link, in which I found a solution that got LMS up: Code: -------------------- apt-get install libgd-gd2-perl -------------------- <--- apparently this was a solution for the same problem in Ubuntu Server 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. Following the above I reinstalled LMS and it fired up as expected. I then took it offline, deleted all my previous SBS data from /diskpool/d1/audiolib/zSqueezeDB/, moved the contents of the /var/lib/squeezeboxserve/cache/ to /diskpool/d1/audiolib/zSqueezeDB/, removed the cache folder and replaced it with a symlink to /diskpool/d1/audiolib/zSqueezeDB/. Thereafter I pointed LMS to /tmp for the library (this is to minimise the ridiculous autoscan that kicks in whilst you're still setting preferences) and proceeded to reconfigure LMS to suit my preferences. After applying all the changes (other than pointing to my music library) I stopped and restarted LMS, following which I pointed it to my library - it's now doing a rescan that reflects my preferences and is going to take the better part of 5 hours before it's useable again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95225 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
