Can't access Properties tabs for MinimServer

[simoncn]

(28-02-2015 13:24)nickc Wrote:  Thanks Simon. I'm pretty certain MinimServer hadn't crashed. I'm going from memory now of course, but I'm pretty sure that at the same time that I couldn't access the properties I had music playing, because I was trying at the time to get BBC radio back up, and kept checking that MinimServer itself was ok by playing ordinary files from my library. I definitely remember clicking on 'refresh', more than once, and not seeing any visible change.

If MinimServer hadn't crashed, this could only be caused by some kind of network problem that prevented communication between MinimWatch and MinimServer. Does this provide any clues?

Quote:I now think what may have happened is that MiinimServer was still rescanning (following changes I'd made to the radio playlist file), even though the tray icon had turned green. Once before after a rescan I noticed that the icon had turned green even though the pop-up tag was still saying MinimServer was restarting, so I'm wondering if there's a minor notification glitch, or simply a delay on this very antiquated pc!

On Ubuntu, notification messages in MinimWatch can be very delayed. Changes to the icon colour should not be delayed and should reflect the current situation in real time. The message delay happens because Ubuntu won't display the next message until it has removed the preoious message, which might take 20 seconds. If MinimServer sends three messages in quick succession, the last one might be delayed by up to a minute. I don't know of any way for MinimServer to tell Ubuntu to remove a message and speed this up.

Quote:In any case, the properties tag is coming up fine again today, so only time will tell if this is a one (or two) -off occurrence. I don't need to refer to the properties tag very often, especially now everything else is up to date and working correctly.

Thanks again for your help.

Next time this happens, please try a Refresh from the minim icon and let me know what happens. Thanks!