Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

[paul-]

Anyone else experiencing this? Or ideas how to overcome it?

I'm thinking that all these download problems are caused by the devices clock not getting set properly. The time is shown in the footer of the web page, is it correct?

[aubuti]

With the usual apologies if this has been explained elsewhere or this is the wrong thread....

I've been running pCP fine for years -- great stuff and thanks to all who are responsible for it! I just pulled out a second Pi that has been unused in a while and am doing a fresh install of 8.2.0 (it previously had 6.1.0), but can't get Samba to start.

I had no problem mounting the USB hard drive (formatted ext4) with my library. I installed support for additional filesystems and *think* I installed support for exFAT (more on that later). LMS installed without a hiccup.

Samba installation appeared to go okay at first, and I gave it server and workgroup names and set up a couple shares. However, when I go to start it from the pCP web interface the message says "Starting SAMBA...." but then it never loads. The web interface says "Samba is not running" and it still shows the red mark.

Looking at the Pi via ssh I don't see any smbd or nmbd processes running. The smbd and nmbd executables are there under /usr/local/sbin and the smb.conf file is in the right place. But there's no Samba-related logs such as log.smbd, smbd.log, etc. in /var/log/.

And, back to the exFAT thing. There is a little strangeness in that after installing exFAT support the button on the interface still says "Install exFAT". And when I push the button again, the message window on the pCP web interface reports:

exfat-utils is already installed!
[ INFO ] exFAT file system support loaded.

Any ideas on what might be going wrong, or suggestions on where to look for logs that will clue me in on why the Samba launch is failing?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[kidstypike]

With the usual apologies if this has been explained elsewhere or this is the wrong thread....

I've been running pCP fine for years -- great stuff and thanks to all who are responsible for it! I just pulled out a second Pi that has been unused in a while and am doing a fresh install of 8.2.0 (it previously had 6.1.0), but can't get Samba to start.

I had no problem mounting the USB hard drive (formatted ext4) with my library. I installed support for additional filesystems and *think* I installed support for exFAT (more on that later). LMS installed without a hiccup.

Samba installation appeared to go okay at first, and I gave it server and workgroup names and set up a couple shares. However, when I go to start it from the pCP web interface the message says "Starting SAMBA...." but then it never loads. The web interface says "Samba is not running" and it still shows the red mark.

Looking at the Pi via ssh I don't see any smbd or nmbd processes running. The smbd and nmbd executables are there under /usr/local/sbin and the smb.conf file is in the right place. But there's no Samba-related logs such as log.smbd, smbd.log, etc. in /var/log/.

And, back to the exFAT thing. There is a little strangeness in that after installing exFAT support the button on the interface still says "Install exFAT". And when I push the button again, the message window on the pCP web interface reports:

exfat-utils is already installed!
[ INFO ] exFAT file system support loaded.

Any ideas on what might be going wrong, or suggestions on where to look for logs that will clue me in on why the Samba launch is failing?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Clear the browser's cache and re-enter the password?

Mine below.

[aubuti]

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately in this case that seems to be a catch-22: you can't enter the password unless Samba is already running. Nevertheless, I tried clearing the browser cache and refreshing the Samba configuration page, but still can't get Samba to start.

[paul-]

Start samba from the ssh session. There is a start/stop script in /usr/local/etc/init.d

[aubuti]

Thanks, that gives some insights on why it's not launching, though I have no idea why I'd be missing libtalloc.so.2 on a fresh install.

[email protected]:/usr/local/etc/init.d$ ./samba4 start
Need to run as root.
[email protected]:/usr/local/etc/init.d$ sudo ./samba4 start
Starting SAMBA...
/usr/local/sbin/smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/local/sbin/nmbd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory​

[TinyTommy]

I'm thinking that all these download problems are caused by the devices clock not getting set properly. The time is shown in the footer of the web page, is it correct?

Thanks a lot Paul,
this solved my download problems.

[garym]

I'm thinking that all these download problems are caused by the devices clock not getting set properly. The time is shown in the footer of the web page, is it correct?

Not having any problems, but I'm not seeing the current time reported on on my piCorePlayer webGUI webpages footer. I'm sure I'm looking in the wrong places. Help point me in the right direction. thanks.

[Greg Erskine]

I believe we removed it years ago.

It was slowing things down and until the time was synced it would show the wrong time.

I'm still looking for a report or log that shows the time!!

[TinyTommy]

Sorry for my previous short and misleading post.
I had followed Paul's hint and, without seeing the actual time, renewed the timezone string on the Tweaks page.
This was how Paul solved my download problem.

[paul-]

I believe we removed it years ago.

It was slowing things down and until the time was synced it would show the wrong time.

I'm still looking for a report or log that shows the time!!

You are correct Greg, we went to a static footer for the user experience/speed. Something for the todo list, so that time setting problems are somewhat detected/and shown to the user.

[satish_appasani]

I am getting the below error in LMS plugins page. I want to add Spotty to my list of plugins. Can someone help me.

Bad repository https://github.com/LMS-Community/lms-plugin-repository/raw/master/extensions.xml - Can't connect to https URL lack of IO::Socket::SSL: https://github.com/LMS-Community/lms-plugin-repository/raw/master/extensions.xml

This is my first time enabling LMS in piCorePlayer. For many years I have been using Max2Play without any issues.

Full error logs:

[23-01-21 21:46:41.4293] Slim::Networking::Repositories::get (137) Falling back to plain text http lack of IO::Socket::SSL: https://github.com/LMS-Community/lms-plugin-repository/raw/master/extensions.xml
[23-01-21 21:46:42.4883] Slim::Networking::Repositories::__ANON__ (147) Failed to fetch http://github.com/LMS-Community/lms-plugin-repository/raw/master/extensions.xml: Can't connect to https URL lack of IO::Socket::SSL: https://github.com/LMS-Community/lms-plugin-repository/raw/master/extensions.xml
[23-01-21 21:46:43.9163] Slim::Networking::Discovery::getFakeVersion (131)
You're using a SB Radio with a buggy firmware not recognizing this version of Logitech Media Server.
Please consider patching it. Until then we'll try to play nice and return a fake version number...

See https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/blob/public/8.0/README.md#sb-radio-and-logitech-media-server-8.
[23-01-21 22:00:49.9700] Slim::Networking::Repositories::__ANON__ (147) Failed to fetch http://github.com/LMS-Community/lms-plugin-repository/raw/master/extensions.xml: Can't connect to https URL lack of IO::Socket::SSL: https://github.com/LMS-Community/lms-plugin-repository/raw/master/extensions.xml
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[Paul Webster]

I am getting the below error in LMS plugins page. I want to add Spotty to my list of plugins. Can someone help me.

That should not be possible when running pCP.
It implies that something fundamental has been removed from the image.
So - first step - can you confirm that you booted pCP and which version it is ... and if you can also been using the "Extensions" from the main page in pCP.

[mherger]

For whatever reason LMS seems to be missing support for https. Can you post installation details from Settings/Information?

[satish_appasani]

I believe following are the details you are looking for

Logitech Media Server Status
Logitech Media Server Version: 8.3.0 - 1667251155 @ Fri 04 Nov 2022 09:19:49 AM CET
Hostname: pCP
Server IP Address: 192.168.1.11
Server HTTP Port Number: 9000
Operating system: piCore - EN - utf8
Platform Architecture: armv7l-linux
Perl Version: 5.32.1 - arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int
Audio::Scan: 1.06
IO::Socket::SSL: Nothing
Database Version: DBD::SQLite 1.58 (sqlite 3.22.0)
Total Players Recognized: 1

piCorePlayer
Player Model: SqueezeLite
Player Type: squeezelite
Firmware: v1.9.9-1392-pCP
Player IP Address: 192.168.1.11
Player MAC Address: b8:27:eb:46:db:92