Yesterday I began having issues with my LMS that has been stable for years. I think it is probably more of a network/computer problem than a LMS issue, but I have no idea where to resume trouble-shooting so I am asking for suggestions. LMS is installed on a Windows 10 PC. All connections except my Boom are ethernet. PC has been re-booted repeatedly; Asus router rebooted a couple of times; cable modem rebooted once. Current nightly LMS was uninstalled/re-installed.
First sign of trouble: yesterday WebUI (Opera browser) became unresponsive. Eventually reloaded a garbled page of text with hyperlinks to some SB commands. Chrome & Firefox yielded the same. Edge, of all things, rendered a usable WebGUI. Shortly afterwards, the player quit playing and all browsers refused to load the GUI.
This morning I fired up players using OrangeSqueeze on my android phone. All browsers, except Edge, on my GUI yielded the text with hyperlinks. Edge was usable. The Boom and my piCorePlayer each played ok for a while, then had periodic cutouts where they stopped and re-started playing. I installed Squeezelite-X on my PC and was able to use it rather than a browser. Eventually the music stopped and the browsers and Squeezelite-X either could not connect to LMS or could not locate any players (of my five). Then without warning SL-X and Edge worked again and the music resumed. Rinse and repeat since then.
I did have a BSOD on my PC a couple of weeks ago. OS & LMS are on a SSD. Windows diagnostics indicates no issues with the drive, so I have been holding off on a recovery option. I am afraid this where my issue may lie though. No other issues on the PC or the network that I am aware of.
I am a bit of a novice with logs, but I have not seen too much in what I have looked at for the times that the problems occurred. The entries below near the time of my most recent outage/re-start do look out of place to me. Do they point me in any particular direction? If I can provide any further info, please let me know (along with a hint as to the best way to post it).
[19-07-17 12:04:23.6694] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1252) Warning: [12:04:23.6690] Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\PROGRA~2\Squeezebox\server\HTML\EN\settings\ser ver\debugging.html line 12.
[19-07-17 13:23:53.4439] main::init (387) Starting Logitech Media Server (v7.9.2, 1562753347, Wed Jul 10 12:38:19 WEDT 2019) perl 5.014001 - MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
[19-07-17 13:26:49.2450] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1252) Warning: [13:26:49.2446] Use of uninitialized value $name in hash element at /Template/Context.pm line 100.
[19-07-17 13:26:49.2455] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1252) Warning: [13:26:49.2452] Use of uninitialized value $shortname in substitution (s///) at /Template/Context.pm line 113.
[19-07-17 13:26:49.2458] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1252) Warning: [13:26:49.2456] Use of uninitialized value $name in concatenation (.) or string at /Template/Context.pm line 168.
[19-07-17 13:26:49.2462] Slim::Web::Template::SkinManager::_fillTemplate (337) Error: file error - : not found
EDIT: After posting this, I fiddled around and got the WebGUIs to display properly with Material skin only. And after not selecting MI&A plug-in during playback as I had been doing previously, I have had no further issues. But it is early still and that may be purely coincidental.
First sign of trouble: yesterday WebUI (Opera browser) became unresponsive. Eventually reloaded a garbled page of text with hyperlinks to some SB commands. Chrome & Firefox yielded the same. Edge, of all things, rendered a usable WebGUI. Shortly afterwards, the player quit playing and all browsers refused to load the GUI.
This morning I fired up players using OrangeSqueeze on my android phone. All browsers, except Edge, on my GUI yielded the text with hyperlinks. Edge was usable. The Boom and my piCorePlayer each played ok for a while, then had periodic cutouts where they stopped and re-started playing. I installed Squeezelite-X on my PC and was able to use it rather than a browser. Eventually the music stopped and the browsers and Squeezelite-X either could not connect to LMS or could not locate any players (of my five). Then without warning SL-X and Edge worked again and the music resumed. Rinse and repeat since then.
I did have a BSOD on my PC a couple of weeks ago. OS & LMS are on a SSD. Windows diagnostics indicates no issues with the drive, so I have been holding off on a recovery option. I am afraid this where my issue may lie though. No other issues on the PC or the network that I am aware of.
I am a bit of a novice with logs, but I have not seen too much in what I have looked at for the times that the problems occurred. The entries below near the time of my most recent outage/re-start do look out of place to me. Do they point me in any particular direction? If I can provide any further info, please let me know (along with a hint as to the best way to post it).
[19-07-17 12:04:23.6694] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1252) Warning: [12:04:23.6690] Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\PROGRA~2\Squeezebox\server\HTML\EN\settings\ser ver\debugging.html line 12.
[19-07-17 13:23:53.4439] main::init (387) Starting Logitech Media Server (v7.9.2, 1562753347, Wed Jul 10 12:38:19 WEDT 2019) perl 5.014001 - MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
[19-07-17 13:26:49.2450] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1252) Warning: [13:26:49.2446] Use of uninitialized value $name in hash element at /Template/Context.pm line 100.
[19-07-17 13:26:49.2455] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1252) Warning: [13:26:49.2452] Use of uninitialized value $shortname in substitution (s///) at /Template/Context.pm line 113.
[19-07-17 13:26:49.2458] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1252) Warning: [13:26:49.2456] Use of uninitialized value $name in concatenation (.) or string at /Template/Context.pm line 168.
[19-07-17 13:26:49.2462] Slim::Web::Template::SkinManager::_fillTemplate (337) Error: file error - : not found
EDIT: After posting this, I fiddled around and got the WebGUIs to display properly with Material skin only. And after not selecting MI&A plug-in during playback as I had been doing previously, I have had no further issues. But it is early still and that may be purely coincidental.