Re: SqueezeBox Server 7.4 webGUI not loading...

[chris]

Hello!


So, I upgraded to SqueezeBox Server 7.4 last Sunday as per Andrew's instructions:


http://vortexbox.org/2009/10/s.....vortexbox/ (http://vortexbox.org/2009/10/squeezebox-server-on-vortexbox/)


All went well as far as I could tell. I gather it upgraded other VB components too because I had a new icon (for upgrading VB) when I went back to my http://vortexbox/ webgui. Moreover, the SqueezeBox Server side of things looked like it updated ok (the webGUI loaded when I clicked the icon in the VBgui and the preferences reported that I was indeed running 7.4).


So I was trying to install my new Squeezebox Duet this morning (exciting times!) and whilst it can sometimes find the server (namely localdomain.vortexbox) it can't find any of the music and I cannot load the squeezebox server webgui anymore (strange I know!). I've tried resetting SC (through VB gui) and VB a number of times. The link in the VB gui doesn't link to the Squeezebox server gui anymore either (it just links to back to the VB gui -- I think it used to be http://VBgui:9000). So I don't understand why it was working on Sunday and not now, I haven't changed anything since.


To isolate what is going wrong, I have tried installing the Squeezebox Server on a windows machine and the webgui plays tracks okay (through the duet) but the library isn't appearing on that either (so I suspect something is going wrong there with the duet).


Hence, I think the library not appearing is a problem with the duet (and thus I may have to pursue the problem with slimdevices) and the webgui not appearing on the VB is a VB problem..


Any help would be most appreciated, thanks,


Chris.

[chris]

Andrew said:Did you try the http://VBgui:9000 (http://vbgui:9000/) url to see if the GUI is there?



Yes I did try that, it doesn't load. The browser just reports that it can't find anything.

[chris]

Andrew,


Thanks for the reply. I did notice that other people seemed to be having similar problems, but I was unsure if they were related (and hence did not add to their topics). I'll give it a go tonight!


Cheers,


Chris.

[andrew]

You are not the first person to have this problem. Run this command and see if it resolves your problem.



curl http://yum.vortexbox.org/fix/fix74.sh | sh



Also please post if this works for you and I'll release it to the rest of the community.

[andrew]

Did you try the http://VBgui:9000 (http://vbgui:9000/) url to see if the GUI is there?

[chris]

curl http://yum.vortexbox.org/fix/fix74.sh | sh
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
101 2939 101 2939 0 0 1586 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 2053
Stopping Squeezebox Server: [FAILED]
Starting Squeezebox Server: [09-10-14 22:34:04.0972] main::init (320) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.4.0, r28672, Mon Sep 28 17:49:55 PDT 2009) perl 5.010000
Cannot write to '/var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log': No space left on device at /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/Log/Log4perl/Appender/File.pm line 240.
[FAILED]
Stopping Squeezebox Server: [FAILED]
Starting Squeezebox Server: [09-10-14 22:34:16.4530] main::init (320) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.4.0, r28672, Mon Sep 28 17:49:55 PDT 2009) perl 5.010000
Cannot write to '/var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log': No space left on device at /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/Log/Log4perl/Appender/File.pm line 240.
[FAILED]





Andrew, when I run what you suggest I get the above output. The web address still does not work. If I try it again, I seem to get the same thing:





curl http://yum.vortexbox.org/fix/fix74.sh | sh
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
101 2939 101 2939 0 0 2815 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 7274
Stopping Squeezebox Server: [FAILED]
Starting Squeezebox Server: [09-10-14 22:36:16.2465] main::init (320) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.4.0, r28672, Mon Sep 28 17:49:55 PDT 2009) perl 5.010000
Cannot write to '/var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log': No space left on device at /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/Log/Log4perl/Appender/File.pm line 240.
[FAILED]
Stopping Squeezebox Server: [FAILED]
Starting Squeezebox Server: [09-10-14 22:36:28.6833] main::init (320) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.4.0, r28672, Mon Sep 28 17:49:55 PDT 2009) perl 5.010000
Cannot write to '/var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log': No space left on device at /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/Log/Log4perl/Appender/File.pm line 240.
[FAILED]

[andrew]

That's not good. It sounds like your disk is full. Maybe somthing has created a very large log.


try this command to see how much space you have.

df -k

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
20158332 2031740 17102592 11% /


/ should be around 10% fulll (this is what mine looks like) my guess is yours is at 100%

[andrew]

If your disk is full this may help



curl http://yum.vortexbox.org/fix/cleanup.sh | sh

[chris]

Sorry about this post, the forum software is doing odd things...




Andrew, thanks for your answers. It sounds like you were right, I am indeed out of space. I should perhaps explain how I installed VB. I have an 80gb HD as IDE and a 300gb HD as SATA. I used an advanced install and opted to install on the SATA drive (wiping everything that was there). I was a bit puzzled when it seemed like VB had made it into one big drive (without prompting) but everything seemed to work okay, so I thought it was all good…



[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_statsdhcp1-lv_root
364153192 363673728 0 100% /
/dev/mapper/pdc_cibejgiiiap1
198337 21757 166340 12% /boot
tmpfs 246640 0 246640 0% /dev/shm
[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# curl http://yum.vortexbox.org/fix/cleanup.sh | sh
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
105 1056 105 1056 0 0 474 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 667


-------------------------------------------------
Disk Cleanup 1.0
-------------------------------------------------

Size before cleanup
--------------------
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_statsdhcp1-lv_root
348G 347G 0 100% /

rm: cannot remove `/var/log/audit': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `/var/log/ConsoleKit': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `/var/log/dirmngr': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `/var/log/httpd': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `/var/log/ntpstats': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `/var/log/ppp': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `/var/log/prelink': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `/var/log/samba': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `/var/log/squeezeboxserver': Is a directory
Cleaning up Everything

Size after cleanup
--------------------
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_statsdhcp1-lv_root
348G 347G 0 100% /


So, I deleted about 200gb of stuff, and it the GUI is loading now! Thoughts on how I can fix this long-term? Here is "df -k" after the deleting of stuff:














df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_statsdhcp1-lv_root
364153192 126631476 219023772 37% /
/dev/mapper/pdc_cibejgiiiap1
198337 21757 166340 12% /boot
tmpfs 246640 0 246640 0% /dev/shm

I also attach some screenshotshttp://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1890093/Screenshot-1.png

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1890093/Screenshot.png

[andrew]

I would use just the 300GB drive and forget to 80GB drive. If you really want to use two drives make / ,swap, nad /boot on the 80 and /storage on the 300. That should make it work right.

[chris]

Andrew, thanks for the reply. I've been crazy busy lately and thus only gotten around to this now… I have two questions as follows.




[1] Given that you think things will work best if I just disconnect the second 80gb drive i'm willing to do that, but before I do, if I just disconnect it will if effect the running of the VortexBox? (i.e. can I just turn it off and pull the power on the drive?)




[2] Also, in the future when I run out of space, can I connect bigger SATA drives? (I suspect my motherboard won't be able to boot off much larger drives than my current 300gb drive.




Thanks,


Chris.

[andrew]

1. I'm not sure


2. Adding a second drive can be tricky unless your a linux command line expert and can span the drives into one partition for use sim links.

[chris]

Andrew, given that that is the case, can you explain an earlier suggestion you made:



Andrew said:I would use just the 300GB drive and forget to 80GB drive. If you really want to use two drives make / ,swap, nad /boot on the 80 and /storage on the 300. That should make it work right.




I'm not sure what you meant about / ,swap, nad /boot on the 80 and /storage on the 300 ...? I'm assuming the end result is that one of the drives (the smaller) becomes swap space and the other is used for storage but I don't know how to do that.
Thanks,
Chris.

[andrew]

Again this is a very advanced way to set up VortexBox and gets you very far away from a standard install. If your not a Linux expert I would stick to only using one drive and a standard install.

[chris]

Point taken. If I ever do a reinstall, I'll just install on a single drive. Here's hoping it doesn't break in the meantime! Thanks for your input.