Help: updating to 7.3.3 on ClarkConnect

[Fifer]

I've had a mini-ITX Linux server running ClarkConnect happily for a few years. I know little about Linux, but set it up using Mike's instructions at http://www.ulverston.myzen.co.uk/mini-itx/index.htm and it's been working and updating quite happily for many Slimserver/Squeezecenter updates. However, updating to 7.3.3 resulted in a message "warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature" and SC wouldn't run. I hadn't (ever) updated ClarkConnect so did so and updated to Perl 5.10.0, then tried re-installing Squeezecenter, but now get:

"Starting SqueezeCenter: Can't locate Slim/bootstrap.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/libexec /usr/local/bin/myperl/lib/5.10.0/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/bin/myperl/lib/5.10.0 /usr/local/bin/myperl/lib/site_perl/5.10.0/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/bin/myperl/lib/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 .) at /usr/libexec/squeezecenter-server line 108.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/libexec/squeezecenter-server line 108."

Any ideas? (Please bear in mind my lack of Linux expertise - I just follow plain English instructions!). Thanks.

[Uluen]

Well, it's just a warning, not an error. I got the same warning yesterday when I updated to 7.3.3, no problems running the new SC.

Do a "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" (if you're running release CC, not beta 5), reboot (just in case).
Then do a "rpm -Uvh http://repos.slimdevices.com/yum/squeezecenter/release/squeezecenter-7.3.3-1.noarch.rpm".

[Fifer]

Thanks. I tried all that and it seemed to work without errors (other than the V3/V4 signature message and telling me 7.3.3 was already installed) but when I try to access Squeezecenter, I get "The connection was refused when attempting to contact 192.168.2.6:9000". I can ping 192.168.2.6 and I can log into the ClarkConnect dashboard.

[Uluen]

Maybe it's firewall issues?
What kind of mode is your CC in? (Gateway, standalone, standalone without firewall.)
Can you telnet to port 9000 on 192.168.2.6? Did you examine the CC logs?

[Fifer]

I'm still struggling with this (I'm running Squeezecenter from my Vista PC for the time being). I suspect there's a clue to the solution here (http://www.mail-archive.com/unix@lists.slimdevices.com/msg10055.html) as the error message is similar.

[bert1e]

I am running 7.3.3 on my clarkconnect (V4.3 started out as v3.2 and was upgraded) Anyhow I looked at the link you sent if I run perl -e "print join(\"\n\", @INC);" I get a huge output

/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl

Is your output similar? Or have you updated your version of Perl?

EDIT: Whoops just reread your first post and you have updated Perl. I am afraid I dont know enough about @INC maybe here is a good starting point http://www.wellho.net/mouth/588_Changing-INC-where-Perl-loads-its-modules.html

[McHineguy]

I have much the same experience. I get the warning messages and then SqueezeCenter will not start. I even did a clean install. Still no joy. So, I have reverted back to SqueezeCenter 7.3.1 for now. Plan to try again when there is better advice available to resolve these hangups.

[McHineguy]

Well, I upgraded ClarkConnect to the newly released version 5.0. SqueezeCenter 7.3.3 works fine with this new install. I never did find why it did not work on ClarkConnect 4.3. But I am a Linux novice and not able to do detailed diagnosis.

For now, upgrade to ClarkConnect 5.0 seems to solve the problem. At least for me.

[Fifer]

Well, I upgraded ClarkConnect to the newly released version 5.0. SqueezeCenter 7.3.3 works fine with this new install. I never did find why it did not work on ClarkConnect 4.3. But I am a Linux novice and not able to do detailed diagnosis.

For now, upgrade to ClarkConnect 5.0 seems to solve the problem. At least for me.

Any advice for another novice on upgrading? (I'm on 4.1 currently).

[mick_w]

I've not tried the upgrade (I did a fresh install), but just dropping the CD in and selecting upgrade should do the trick, hopefully keeping your settings.

The only problem you might experience is the new way Samba is configured as default - your share may not work.

I've got some instructions on my website.

Mick

[Fifer]

I've not tried the upgrade (I did a fresh install), but just dropping the CD in and selecting upgrade should do the trick, hopefully keeping your settings.

The only problem you might experience is the new way Samba is configured as default - your share may not work.

I've got some instructions on my website.

Mick

Thanks Mick, I'll check that out. (I was being lazy and hoping not to have to hook up a CD drive).

[Fifer]

Been on holiday, so just got round to trying an update to 5.0, but the installer reboots after a message saying it's unable to mount /music. I guess I'll have to install from scratch, unless anyone has any other ideas. That'll be for next weekend.

[ricercare]

I've not tried the upgrade (I did a fresh install), but just dropping the CD in and selecting upgrade should do the trick, hopefully keeping your settings.

The only problem you might experience is the new way Samba is configured as default - your share may not work.

I've got some instructions on my website.

Mick

Thanks, Mick - I was wondering what happened to the Samba share!

[Fifer]

Yet again, I must express my gratitude to Mick. Having installed Squeezecenter on my PC temporarily, I was procrastinating about starting from scratch installing CC 5.0. However, I bit the bullet last night and found Mick's updated instructions to be as excellent as the original and the whole exercise was completely painless. I now have my mini-ITX server up and running with the latest version of Squeezecenter. Thanks Mick!