Every time Netgear does an update it creates a whole set of new problems for their users. It is very irresponsible to release such buggy software before it is properly tested. I will simply not update again till they get this fixed. I have seriously considered getting rid of these servers and going with a more dependable product.
There certainly were too many bugs in some of the previous ReadyNAS releases this year, but I don't think its fair to blame Netgear for the LMS issue.
OS 6.6 included a kernel update (to Debian Jesse), and these apps generally hadn't been updated in a very long time. Personally I don't consider this to be a bug. Windows 10 didn't work with some of my old Windows XP programs, and I don't consider those bugs in Win 10 either.
If Netgear never updates the OS version, then over time it becomes vulnerable to security vulnerabilitles - and newer linux programs can't be installed. So I think there is a need to stay reasonably current.
Something like docker might be a better path for apps - there's an idea there on the idea exchange that you might consider voting for.
Re: Logitech Media Server by Super-Poisson not compatible with 6.6.0
Hi everyone,
I have been following this closely & tonight I installed the LMS nightly 7.9 & 1.09 Deb which both loaded fine onto my ReadyNas 102. All seemed to go well then once I restarted LMS 7.9 on my ReadyNAS 102 it all went pear shaped. My LMS interface is not the usual appearance, it is very simplistic in appearance & won't allow me to point it to the NAS folders, I don't know what went wrong. I have downloaded LMS7.9 onto my laptop to get me going again.
Have the recent successful installers jumped directly to the new nightly LMS, which includes the perl-5.20-armel.modules?
So can someone confirm installing the nightly won't mess up the LMS for those who purged the old LMS and installed the package manually.
Thanks for your help
Geddy
I installed the latest nightly over the manually installed LMS and it worked.
Hi Otto,
Thanks for the confirmation, worked for me also with logitechmediaserver_7.9.0~1477086729_arm.deb. Seems safe enough for all to update 🙂
As general info:
Some strange LMS behavior changes on a RM102 between #1 old (before 6.6.0) -> #2 in between (manual inst.last week ) -> #3 new nightly (installed today).
I'm using 2 * Touch for main playback, #A with Triode for 192/24 and downwards, #B with standard max. 96/24 and also analog output used.
While not actually needed in daily use, transcoding 192&176 to 96 in #B did never work in #1, suddenly started working in #2 but stopped working in #3. No setup changes done between #2 and #3. Any clues how to fix, if someone is facing the same problem?
Re: Logitech Media Server by Super-Poisson not compatible with 6.6.0
Thank you all for your help so far. I have managed to install XXX using upload in GUI and if I connect to port 9000 I can see the web interface, however I can't see the app under installed apps so I cannot use the gui to start | stop the service. I have tried the "apt-get purge logitechmediaserver" followed by deleting the "/var/lib# rm -rf squeezeboxserver/"
Re: Logitech Media Server by Super-Poisson not compatible with 6.6.0
Thanks for the quick responce.
I uninstalled logitechmediaserver_7.9.0~1477086729_arm.deb and cleaned up the directories again then uploaded the file "lms_1.0.9_all.deb", however that does not seem to work at all now and when I check the /var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log it says "Logitech Media Server died. Restarting." repeatedly.
Should I install logitechmediaserver_7.9.0~1477086729_arm.deb & lms_1.0.9_all.deb ?
Re: Logitech Media Server by Super-Poisson not compatible with 6.6.0
@Kbema1376
If you read earlier commentaries you'll notice that this is too easy. Netgear has to update certain parts of the OS to keep it safe. A new version of Perl has been in the works for some time and now was the time to implement it. So the correct way to solve these issues was to ask the developers of LMS to add new libraries that work with this newer version of Perl.
Netgear cannot be responsible for these libraries, they can only help solving these compatibility issues by asking the developers to adjust these libraries or executables.
That is what the activities on this forum achieved.
One might think that Netgear should have tested all these add-ons before releasing the new firmware. That would be ideal, but I don't believe that Netgear has the capacity to do that without help from the community. It's no Microsoft (or Google) as far as it's capacity for testing goes.
So let's be reasonable: the problem was solved in about two weeks time by the communities involved. I've known issues with bigger companies/communities that took much longer to solve (remember SSL?)
Re: Logitech Media Server by Super-Poisson not compatible with 6.6.0
Can I pls ask the OP to summarize the necessary steps and mark the issue as resolved. This will help future people who upgrade to OS 6.6.x, including myself.
Re: Logitech Media Server by Super-Poisson not compatible with 6.6.0
I am waiting for 6.6.1. that's compatible with LMS, or the other way around, a newer LMS that's compatible with 6.6.0 and follow standard installation for dummies.
Re: Logitech Media Server by Super-Poisson not compatible with 6.6.0
Hi all
I must be doing something wrong or my RN104 has just got in a mess (also tried my RN102 which didn't have LMS installed so I knew it would be a fresh install).
I've tried uploading the nightly LMS (logitechmediaserver_7.9.0~1477086729_arm.deb) and then the LMS lms_7.9.0_all.deb just using the Apps -> Upload in the web page, but I don't get anything appear in either Apps or Available Apps.
I was running LMS ok until 6.6.0.
Can anyone offer any advice please? How do you clean up everything to start again? I do have ssh access, just not sure where to start deleting everything.
You installed LMS twice (logitechmediaserver_7.9.0~1477086729_arm.deb and lms_7.9.0_all.deb, these are both the LMS-server), where you should install it once (logitechmediaserver_7.9.0~1477086729_arm.deb) and then install the supper_poussin app (lms_1.09_all.deb) which makes LMS accessible from the APPS-tab.
So first the nightly LMS and then lms_1.09_all.deb, which is super_poussin's plug-in.
