Squeezebox Boom Installation Problem - Further Information

[mherger]

> Thanks for all that information. I also made contact with Apple support
> today. Not an easy thing to do. She had a look at what I had downloaded
> , and eventually explained that I was downloading the wrong LMS. I
> needed one for macOS Catalina not LMS Mac OSX). So I searched again and

She certainly had no clue.

> there is material on the Logitech website headed "Important information
> for Logitech Control Centre and macOS Catalina and Mojave". It explains
> that you have to update the Logitech Control Centre BEFORE installing
> macOS Catalina. Now they tell me. It also gives a link to the Download
> page. Then there is a link to "LCC permission prompts on macOS
> Catalina". It states that "Starting with macOS Catalina, (10.15) Apple
> has a new policy that requires user permission for LCC software for the
> following features:

LMS has nothing to do with LCC except for the identical first character :-).

Please install LMS 7.9.3, the DMG file from
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nig...ex.php?ver=7.9

Then run the following in a terminal (single line):

/Library/PreferencePanes/Squeezebox.prefPane/Contents/server/slimserver.pl

What would that give you?

--

Michael

[KeBul]

Heartily fed up with the whole thing.

But at least Logitech acknowledged elsewhere that there is a problem, and that they are still working on it with Apple.

I'll study your very kind and helpful information when I gather strength tomorrow morning and see if there is something there that will work. Don't think I've ever heard of "Logitech Control Centre" though.

Your advice is very much appreciated, I can assure you.

Allen

Allen,

Please slow down on/give up grasping for help from Apple & Logitech, They are not quite in tune with what you are trying to do...

Do NOT proceed any further with LCC, do NOT un-install Catalina

Do follow Michael's last post instructions (post #11)
If you are struggling with those then come straight back and be specific about what you cannot do or what's going wrong when you try. We (especially Michael) will get you there.

Kev

[philippe_44]

7.7.6 is the latest stable release. It's not unheard of that beta software like 7.9.3 doesn't work.

If I was having problems installing something, I'd make sure I was using stable version not beta or git software.

That's why I told him that, because the latest release is 7.7.6.

Thanks,

DR

Sent from my P027 using Tapatalk

7.7.6 is vastly outdated now. The stable is 7.9.2 and there is 7.9.3 nightly builds for bug corrections.
8.0.0 is the development version.

[Allen]

Hi,

I am running the latest version of Catalina (Mac OS 10.15.6) and I'd like to report that it is possible to run LMS on the latest Mac OS release. I installed LMS-8 from downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=8.0 . For me the install was super easy, I downloaded and run the Mac OSX installer. Since the package is not signed I had to specifically allow the installer to run (System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General). The installer requests to install a System Preference Pane.

I know, the above report is probably not too helpful but I wanted to report that it is possible to install LMS-8 on a Mac running the latest Catalina without any hassle.

Reading your other post it is hard to understand if you successfully installed LMS or not. Downloading is one step but you need to run the installer. If you have LMS installed I suggest than you remove all traces of LMS on you machine and start over with LMS-8. It might still be beta but Spotify and local music works perfectly. Installing LMS-8 will add an icon to System Preferences and start the server immediately. Once you reach this state I think it is possible for the community to help you.

Cheers

Wow! Thanks for that. I'll give it a fly. What's been happening in my case is that LMS downloads, and clicking on INFO shows that the full package has arrived. But when I click on INSTALL, the Mac goes through the motions and puts up a box with a big green 'tick' and tells me that the installation was successful, but nothing has actually arrived. The log file shows that SIGKILL has blocked all the files, one-by-one.

Anyway, I'll follow your instructions and post a report on what happens, having removed all previous downloads.

Allen

[djringjr]

Thanks Philippe,

Update my answer to this. Use 7.9.2.

Regards,

David

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 13:52 philippe_44 <
philippe_44.9n1k0n (AT) no-mx (DOT) ...limdevices.com> wrote:

>
> djringjr wrote:
> > 7.7.6 is the latest stable release. It's not unheard of that beta
> > software like 7.9.3 doesn't work.
> >
> > If I was having problems installing something, I'd make sure I was using
> > stable version not beta or git software.
> >
> > That's why I told him that, because the latest release is 7.7.6.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > DR
> >
> > Sent from my P027 using Tapatalk
>
> 7.7.6 is vastly outdated now. The stable is 7.9.2 and there is 7.9.3
> nightly builds for bug corrections.
> 8.0.0 is the development version.
>
>
>
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[Grumpy Bob]

I have a MacBook Pro running Catalina with latest updates. I've just downloaded the MacOS version of LMS 7.9.3 that Michael linked to in his post in this thread. It was the pkg file, not a dmg, and is described as Mac OSX.

I was asked whether I wanted to keep or discard the download - I selected "Keep"

I double clicked to open the pkg file. This was refused because it came from an unidentified developer.

I Control-clicked the file (i.e. held control down while clicking the file) - I was then offered the option of opening the file, which I did.

LMS was then installed, with a dialogue box asking for it to be given access to System Preferences. I clicked OK.

I can see that LMS is running by going to localhost:9000 on my browser, and the LMS web interface opened.

This seems pretty straightforward to me, with one or two steps added by the Apple developers in the name of security, and only took a couple of minutes. I don't have any use for LMS on my MacBook, so I'll delete it now :-)

Robert

[Allen]

> Thanks for all that information. I also made contact with Apple support
> today. Not an easy thing to do. She had a look at what I had downloaded
> , and eventually explained that I was downloading the wrong LMS. I
> needed one for macOS Catalina not LMS Mac OSX). So I searched again and

She certainly had no clue.

> there is material on the Logitech website headed "Important information
> for Logitech Control Centre and macOS Catalina and Mojave". It explains
> that you have to update the Logitech Control Centre BEFORE installing
> macOS Catalina. Now they tell me. It also gives a link to the Download
> page. Then there is a link to "LCC permission prompts on macOS
> Catalina". It states that "Starting with macOS Catalina, (10.15) Apple
> has a new policy that requires user permission for LCC software for the
> following features:

LMS has nothing to do with LCC except for the identical first character :-).

Please install LMS 7.9.3, the DMG file from
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nig...ex.php?ver=7.9

Then run the following in a terminal (single line):

/Library/PreferencePanes/Squeezebox.prefPane/Contents/server/slimserver.pl

What would that give you?

--

Michael

I've tried all that. The problem is that LMS 7.9.3 will download, but won't install, so I can't go any further. I do see the message that SIGKILL has "Exited the installation", line by line when I look in the log file. I'm afraid I'm not hugely computer literate, but try my hardest. I appreciate your assistance. I am sure that it's something that just needs the correct tweak to fix it.

Allen

[mherger]

> I have a MacBook Pro running Catalina with latest updates. I've just
> downloaded the MacOS version of LMS 7.9.3 that Michael linked to in his
> post in this thread. It was the pkg file, not a dmg, and is described as
> Mac OSX.

Oops... thanks for the clarification!

FWIW: I'm doing all devepment on a MacBook, currently running Catalina.
It certainly does work.

--

Michael

[mherger]

>> Then run the following in a terminal (single line):
>>
>> /Library/PreferencePanes/Squeezebox.prefPane/Contents/server/slimserver.pl
>>
>> What would that give you?

> I've tried all that, Michael.

Ok, what's the answer to my question then?


> The problem is that LMS 7.9.3 will
> download, but won't install, so I can't go any further. I do see the
> message that SIGKILL has "Exited the installation", line by line when I
> look in the log file. I'm afraid I'm not hugely computer literate, but
> try my hardest. I appreciate your assistance. I am sure that it's
> something that just needs the correct tweak to fix it.

Forget SIGKILL, official support and what not. Just answer our questions
and we'll get there.

(FWIW: I consider myself quite computer literate. But I hardly ever had
to deal with SIGKILL messages in log files over the past 35 years... Not
because they didn't occur, but because the problem usually can be found
at a higher level)

--

Michael

[Allen]

I have a MacBook Pro running Catalina with latest updates. I've just downloaded the MacOS version of LMS 7.9.3 that Michael linked to in his post in this thread. It was the pkg file, not a dmg, and is described as Mac OSX.

I was asked whether I wanted to keep or discard the download - I selected "Keep"

I double clicked to open the pkg file. This was refused because it came from an unidentified developer.

I Control-clicked the file (i.e. held control down while clicking the file) - I was then offered the option of opening the file, which I did.

LMS was then installed, with a dialogue box asking for it to be given access to System Preferences. I clicked OK.

I can see that LMS is running by going to localhost:9000 on my browser, and the LMS web interface opened.

This seems pretty straightforward to me, with one or two steps added by the Apple developers in the name of security, and only took a couple of minutes. I don't have any use for LMS on my MacBook, so I'll delete it now :-)

Robert

Sadly this doesn't work in my case. I downloaded LMS 7.9.3. pkg but same old problem. All the details of the download are shown if I click on "Info", but I don't get asked if I want to keep or discard the download. All I can do is right click, choose "OPEN", and the installation begins once I have keyed in my authorisation. Then it shows that the download has been installed correctly. But nothing has been installed. I have checked in SECURITY and PRIVACY>General, that "ANYWHERE" is checked under "Allow apps downloaded from: ANYWHERE. What should I look at next?