minimserver 0.8.1 crashes following a relaunch or a restart

[simoncn]

Thanks for reporting these problems. See my responses inline below.

(17-12-2013 19:06)Andre Gosselin Wrote:  After installing minim 0.8.1 on win7 (64bit version), I was asked to uninstall previous 0.72 version. Installation went OK , but minim server refused to start. I had to reboot my win7 system to get it running. Everything OK so far, minimserver was fully functional.

I haven't seen this problem, and I don't know what would cause it.

Quote:I went to Properties > Packages to install minimstreame-0.3.5. Following a Relaunch (as per instructions), I got a MinimServer error window containing :

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Relaunch failed: see minimserver-heapdump-20131217-...hprof and minimserver-threads-20131217-...log

Here is the minimserver-threads log contents (heap log is way too big to post).

I don't see anything unusual in the minimserver-threads file. Please upload the minimserver-heapdump file to my FTP server, and I will look at it and investigate what is causing the problem.

Quote:I then restarted minim (withut exiting). This time I got the following error message in the log file:

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Tue Dec 17 11:26:51 MinimServer internal error: unknown itemLocation 0x4000010B in playlist Compositeurs/.../Albinoni - Adagio - Andre, Alain (trumpet, organ).m3u

Is this the exact message that you saw, or was there some more text in place of '...'?

How many content directories do you have, and what are their names? Which of these content directories contains the playlist that produced the error message? Which of these content directories contains the files referenced by this playlist?

Quote:No matter what I did after that (Stop - Restart, Rescan) I always got this errror message. The only way to get a working minimserver back was to Exit minimserver, then retart it from the windows desktop. Then minimserver started OK, the log file showing :

(I note that this time the log makes no reference to the folder cache).

This is because MinimServer is rescanning your disk files in this working case. In the other failing case, it is reading information from the cache only.

Quote:If I try a "rescan", everythig is ok. But if if attempt a "restart" I am back to a non-working minimserver with the same error message in the log :

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MinimServer internal error: unknown itemLocation 0x4000010B in playlist ...

The only way out of this situation is to exit minimserver completely, and restart if.

It appears that the "Relaunch" button in the Properties > Packages tab, or the Restart entry in the minim context box, break minimserver 0.8.1 somehow.

At least, this problem can be systematically reproduced on my win7 setup. This should make it easier to trace. I will be happy to provide any further information that could help fix this issue.

I think this problem is related to having multiple content directories. Your answers to my questions above will help me understand what might be causing the problem.

Quote:Except for that, my first experience with version 0.8.1 was fine. I will keep working with it.

Thanks for all your efforts.

Thanks for reporting these problems and providing such detailed information about them.