Minimserver just stopped working..

[simoncn]

(08-03-2013 09:13)wappinghigh Wrote:  ^ Rebooting the QNAP got minimwatch talking with minimerver again. But restarting Minimwatch (goes yellow..then opaque..ie no colour) did nothing. Neither did a restart of minimserver in the QNAP..(which is green BTW)..

If you're running MinimWatch on the Mac, "opaque" is actually grey in the MinimWatch colour scheme.

If the icon goes from yellow to grey, this means that MinimServer has crashed.

The green icon in the QNAP Package Center means that MinimServer is enabled and was started. The Package Center isn't smart enough to notice that MinimServer has crashed and change the icon colour.

Quote:But the log now says minimserver is running..

Do you mean the minimserver.log file on the public share of the QNAP, or some other log?

Quote:But still can't see it running on my network..

I can see Twonky media running on the QNAP.. but not your beautiful server !

What the?

Disappointing. I thought it was too good to be true

Any clues Simon?

The vital information about the crash is likely to be in a file on the QNAP named /tmp/minimserver-out-nnnn.log, where nnnn is the process ID of the MinimServer process that crashed. There might also be some additional crash information in the /share/HDA_DATA/.qpkg/MinimServer/data directory. Please do the following:

1) Login to the QNAP using SSH

2) At the command prompt, type the command:
ls -l /tmp/minimserver*

3) You should see something like the following:
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin administ 816 Mar 7 10:58 /tmp/minimserver-out-3942.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin administ 414 Mar 7 11:00 /tmp/minimserver-out-9402.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin administ 508 Mar 7 11:00 /tmp/minimserver-sh.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin administ 5 Mar 7 11:00 /tmp/minimserver.pid

4) At the command prompt, type the command:
ls -l /share/HDA_DATA/.qpkg/MinimServer/data/hs_err*

5) You might see something like the following:
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin administ 29319 Jan 20 07:50 /share/HDA_DATA/.qpkg/MinimServer/data/hs_err_pid6763.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin administ 29417 Jan 20 07:58 /share/HDA_DATA/.qpkg/MinimServer/data/hs_err_pid6913.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin administ 29346 Jan 20 08:05 /share/HDA_DATA/.qpkg/MinimServer/data/hs_err_pid7385.log

6) Please copy all the files listed in 3) and 5) to another computer, zip them, and attach the zip file to a post here.

I'll think about what I could do to make it easier in future to gather this diagnostic data.