Problems with Summer Release (1 Viewer)

[Meier]

Hi everybody,

first of all - thanks for spending your time in the development of MP2. Unfortenately I must say that I am a Little bit disappointed about the release. I am not posting much - but readings regulary Topics - especially about MP2. In These Topics it sounded like MP2 make a big Progress compared to the last Snapshot Releases. I now tried the new summer release and have the following Problems (I have a separate Client and Server):

1. The Installation on the Server "fails" with error 2753 (I guess it's a Problem of the Server Only Installation). (see MP2-Setup.log)
2. A stop of the MP2 is still extremly slow. I disabled IPv6 on the whole Server and also created the MediaPortal.Common.Services.ResourceAccess.Settings.ServerSettings with IPv6 disabled. In the log I can see the following entries (MP2-Service-stop):

[2015-07-11 17:48:57,206] [1002592] [570 ] [ERROR] - Error: SSDPServerController.OnExpirationTimerElapsed: Cannot acquire synchronization lock. Maybe a deadlock happened.​

3. The thumbnail Generation for recorded TV-Series is not working:

[2015-07-11 17:32:19,286] [4671 ] [40 ] [INFO ] - TvThumbnails.VideoThumbCreator: No C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MP2-Server\Plugins\SlimTv.Service3\ffmpeg.exe found to generate thumbnails of your video!​

To fix it I had to manually copy the ffmpeg.exe from MP1.
4. No data is imported for TV-Series and Movies. In the log the following error is visible:

[2015-07-11 17:34:30,655] [136040 ] [47 ] [INFO ] - ImporterWorker: Import for path '{e88e64a8-0233-4fdf-ba27-0b44c6a39ae9}:///G:/ServerFolders/Series/', MediaCategories: 'Video,Series', including subdirectories requested...
[2015-07-11 17:34:30,811] [136196 ] [25 ] [INFO ] - ImporterWorker: Scheduled ImportJob(#1) (Activated) (Path ='{e88e64a8-0233-4fdf-ba27-0b44c6a39ae9}:///G:/ServerFolders/Series/', ImportJobType='Import', IncludeSubdirectories='True')
[2015-07-11 17:34:31,373] [136759 ] [25 ] [INFO ] - ImporterWorker.ImportJob(#1): Activated
[2015-07-11 17:34:37,124] [142510 ] [25 ] [INFO ] - PluginManager: Plugin 'ShellThumbnailProvider' (id 'a2cf09c5-d4d0-43ac-89a8-3ecf5ed2510b') activated.
[2015-07-11 17:34:37,124] [142510 ] [25 ] [INFO ] - PluginManager: Plugin 'WICThumbnailProvider' (id 'ff0f8b29-881e-48a9-9a47-4ef04c6c56e0') activated.
[2015-07-11 17:34:37,515] [142900 ] [Thread10 ] [WARN ] - ThreadPool.ProcessQueue(): Exception during processing work ''
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.Extensions.OnlineLibraries.SeriesTvDbMatcher.<CheckCacheAndRefresh>b__1f()
at MediaPortal.Common.Threading.Work.Process()
at MediaPortal.Common.Services.Threading.ThreadPool.ProcessQueue()
[2015-07-11 17:34:37,515] [142900 ] [Thread142] [WARN ] - ThreadPool.ProcessQueue(): Exception during processing work ''
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.Extensions.OnlineLibraries.SeriesTvDbMatcher.<CheckCacheAndRefresh>b__1f()
at MediaPortal.Common.Threading.Work.Process()
at MediaPortal.Common.Services.Threading.ThreadPool.ProcessQueue()
​

Before this I was thinking about a Migration to MP2 - but with These Errors it's unfortenately unusable for me

If you Need any further informations please tell me which ones and I will try to provide them.

Thanks in advance.

 

[micko]

1. The Installation on the Server "fails" with error 2753 (I guess it's a Problem of the Server Only Installation). (see MP2-Setup.log)

I can confirm this. Installation was succesfull only when i installed both server and client.

 

[MrTechno]

Did you choose the standard "Server only" install or did you customise it?

Do you use the MP2 server machine as a VPN server or with multiple NICs? Try restricting the IP addresses that MP2 binds to with this setting in MP2-Server\Config\MediaPortal.Common.Services.ResourceAccess.Settings.ServerSettings.xml:

  <Property Name="IPAddressBindings">
    <string>192.168.0.20</string>
  </Property>

 

[Meier]

Did you choose the standard "Server only" install or did you customise it?

Do you use the MP2 server machine as a VPN server or with multiple NICs? Try restricting the IP addresses that MP2 binds to with this setting in MP2-Server\Config\MediaPortal.Common.Services.ResourceAccess.Settings.ServerSettings.xml:

  <Property Name="IPAddressBindings">
    <string>192.168.0.20</string>
  </Property>

Yeah it has multiple nics - but only one is connected.
Sorry I didn't mention that I also added the IPAddressBinding.

Yes I had choosen "Server Only" without any further cusomisations.

 

[Lehmden]

The Installation on the Server "fails" with error 2753

Error 2753 is a Windows Error telling you about a file in Temp dir, that needs to be overwritten, but can not as it is in use. You need to clean up your Temp dir before trying to install MP2 again...

 

[breese]

I validated the Server Only install fails but the MP2-Server process is running

 

[breese]

Uninstalling also fails but services are removed

 

[Meier]

If you check the Setup log file you can find why it Fails:

DEBUG: Error 2753: The File 'ClientLauncher.exe' is not marked for installation.
The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2753. The arguments are: ClientLauncher.exe, ,​

Sounds like it still tries to load the mp2 Client - or is clientlauncher starting something different?

 

[morpheus_xx]

Hmm, this is indeed a new issue. It comes from running "ClientLauncher.exe" after setup, but it should happen only for the Client part. Unfortunately it seems to happen also for server-only installs, where it is missing.
Edit: Reference for commit: https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-2/commit/9eeb22ce343ee6fd4fe7403a2de8a9254e2ae336. Although it's defined inside client.wxs, it applies to all setup types

This can only be fixed by a new installer. You can in meantime do a full install including Client.

 

[morpheus_xx]

3. The thumbnail Generation for recorded TV-Series is not working:
[2015-07-11 17:32:19,286] [4671 ] [40 ] [INFO ] - TvThumbnails.VideoThumbCreator: No C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MP2-Server\Plugins\SlimTv.Service3\ffmpeg.exe found to generate thumbnails of your video!

We should disable this feature by default, as it is redundant to MP2-Servers media import handling. I recommend to uncheck the related setting in SetupTV/Recording config!