Minimserver running on Raspberry Pi GUI not responsive

[ADW]

(09-04-2018 21:50)simoncn Wrote:  

(09-04-2018 20:34)ADW Wrote:  No I don't. Unlike if I open, say, Terminal, in which case I get the task tab on the menu bar.

This means that MinimServer has failed to start for some reason. Please try the following:

1) On the Pi, open a Terminal window
2) cd to the directory where you installed MinimServer (if this isn't your home directory)
3) Enter the command: minimserver/bin/starti

What messages are displayed in the Terminal window?

Hi Steve, so I've tried doing a reinstall. I removed Minimserver and reinstalled it, ran setup which did as the instructions led me to believe it would. Then ran Minimserver/bin/startc which set off scanning the library. The log contains a bunch of warnings conflicting values in the odd music but it seemed to run to completion and eventually ended and stopped.

When trying to run minimserver/bin/starti I got the following

/home/pi/minimserver/bin/startd: 100: /home/pi/minimserver/bin/startd: cannot create /home/pi/minimserver/data/minimserver.pid: Permission denied
/home/pi/minimserver/bin/startd: 130: /home/pi/minimserver/bin/startd: cannot create /home/pi/minimserver/data/minimserver.pid: Permission denied
/home/pi/minimserver/bin/startd: 125: /home/pi/minimserver/bin/startd: cannot create /home/pi/minimserver/data/minimserver-out.log: Permission denied
Failed to start MinimServer

I tried the same instruction using sudo and simply got
Failed to start MinimServer
I don't know if it's any help but after this I found the content of Minimserver-out.log to be
Missing value for property watch.iconDisplay=

Well and truly bemused! :-)