A while back I upgraded my home server to Ubuntu 12.04 (while it was still in beta) and immediately the first thing I noticed was that the Logitech Media Server (previously known as Squeezebox Server) had stopped working.
Checking through the logs, I saw a lot of messages about perl dependencies being missing or not working [1]. As I was a bit busy at the time (the decision to upgrade had been due to something else entirely), I put it to one side (much to my wife’s annoyance!) to pick up later.
As I’ve been wallowing at home the past couple of days with a stomach bug, and not really been fit to do much other than moan, lie there and feel sorry about myself, I thought about what I could do to get my squeezebox server back up and running.
A few Google searches later, and I turn up this page: http://forums.slimdevices.com/archive/index.php/t-89057.html which suggests that this message below is due to Ampache… which now that I look at the log entry, it kinda makes sense. Queue digging into the depths of the server.
Under Ubuntu, all the serious configuration for the server is stored in /var/lib/squeezeboxserver, which includes the plugins.
So, firstly, I deleted the downloaded Zip file from /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/DownloadedPlugins/Ampache.zip
rm /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/DownloadedPlugins/Ampache.zip
Next, I removed the unpacked plugin from /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Ampache
rm -Rf /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Ampache
I made a mistake here on my box, and restarted the server. Woohoo it came back up, but the first thing it did was to re-download the plugin again! D’oh. So, now I need to find what’s telling it to re-install the plugin. Queue a quick grep. Ahhh, there’s a file called extensions.prefs, which says:
prefs/plugin/extensions.prefs: Ampache: 1
And another file called state.prefs which says:
prefs/plugin/state.prefs:Ampache: needs-install
Note, these are both the output from grep – so the filename includes the path from the point /var/lib/squeezeboxserver. A quick nano away (or whatever editor you prefer) and I’d removed the line from the extensions.prefs which showed Ampache: 1, but the state.prefs was marginally more tricky. In here it lists them in three states, enabled, disabled and needs-install. So, I changed it to show disabled and then restarted the service. Tada. I’ve got a working Logitech Media Server again! Huzzah!
[1] Log file looks like this:
Slim::bootstrap::tryModuleLoad (285) Warning: Module [Plugins::GrabPlaylist::Plugin] failed to load: Can't locate Math/VecStat.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/sbin/Plugins/Gallery /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Gallery /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/Installed Plugins/Plugins/CustomScan/lib /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Ampache/lib CODE(0xb911c40) /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins /usr/share/squeezebo xserver/CPAN/arch/5.14/i386-linux-thread-multi-64int /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.14/i386-linux-thread-multi-64int/auto /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.14.2/i686-linu x-gnu-thread-multi-64int /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.14.2/i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int/auto /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.14/i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.14/i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int/auto /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/li b /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN /usr/share/squeezeboxserver /usr/sbin /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/ 5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . CODE(0xb911e20)) at Slim/Player/Player.pm line 18. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Slim/Player/Player.pm line 18. Compilation failed in require at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/GrabPlaylist/Plugin.pm line 22. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/GrabPlaylist/Plugin.pm line 22. Compilation failed in require at (eval 924) line 2. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 924) line 2.
Nice, right?
