Minimserver 0.72 crashes nightly on ReadyNas Ultra+

[simoncn]

(05-02-2014 21:53)rweten Wrote:  Hi Simon, I am still having some problems losing the server overnight. I had not reported earlier because I had seen some new pattern and I wanted to see if it would repeat.

And it does. So here's the behaviour.

1. In uninstall MinimWatch and MinimServer, and reinstall from fresh. As long as this fresh install is left alone, the server stays up, day after day, night after night
2. I get a new patch update for MinimWatch and Server, and install them. Successful install messages, all is OK that evening
3. Next morning the server will be down. Blue/grey notification tray icon. No server showing in Kinsky. Kinsky can't play any tracks from the server. The minimum solution is to go into ReadyNAS frontview, stop the server, then restart it. Server then rescans for c. 20 mins and all is well again.
4. From then on, the server will go down every night. Regular as clockwork. The only solution is a complete uninstall (retaining the information files) then a fresh reinstall with a new download from the site.

I have now seen this same behaviour over at least three cycles of new software updates.

I'm scratching my head a bit. Seems very weird to me. Does this give you any new clues?

Of course, happy to collect log files again if you want me to - just let me know.

Richard

PS Apart from this, the product works very well. I'm delighted with the flexibility and love my ability to customise my browing options. Also it's a lot faster than my Twonky server, both in rescanning behaviour, and in response time to the control point (particularly for large requests e.g. list all Album Artists).

Please set the MinimServer logging level to Debug and save the minimserver.log file that was written to the ReadyNAS backup share after the MinimServer process was killed. It is important to copy this file to a different location before MinimServer is restarted.

If you look in the ReadyNAS system logs, do you see any other activity at the time that MinimServer went down? This might help to identify which other process or service is killing the MinimServer process.

I am running the latest update on my ReadyNAS Duo v2 and I have never seen this problem.