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endless Preparing ... and cannot play anything - raspberry_pd - 2nd May, 2013 07:18 PM
Hi
Can anybody explain why XBian boots and has a constant state of "Preparing ..." almost indefinitely and I cannot play anything?
Even when the Preparing ... goes away I cannot play anything.
Please help!
pd
Re: endless Preparing ... and cannot play anything - rikardo1979 - 2nd May, 2013 07:20 PM
does ssh works? logs?
RE: endless Preparing ... and cannot play anything - raspberry_pd - 2nd May, 2013 07:29 PM
super fast reponse, thanks!
Yes SSH works fine, I can boot and reboot and so on. Didn't think of checking the logs, boy I must be flustered to have forgotten that!
Pretty much everything works - thumbnails, browsing the library, pretty much everything but accessing the NAS box where all my content is. However it doesn't seem to be a network issues as my Windows XP machine can access the same NAS box fine. OK, ... to the logs!
The main problem seems to be:
19:21:00 T:2934961216 NOTICE: service.libraryautoupdate: Starting network check
then nothing happens. so I get several lines saying a folder/file on the NAS share doesn't exist, "skipping scan".
RE: endless Preparing ... and cannot play anything - rikardo1979 - 2nd May, 2013 07:45 PM
did you try remove the sources and rescan the library ? or just remove the source and add it again and skip the scan.than try to access the files and see if it does work
RE: endless Preparing ... and cannot play anything - raspberry_pd - 2nd May, 2013 07:48 PM
It's fixed! Thanks ricardo1979. Funny how someone just suggesting that I think in a different direction makes all the difference. It appears the problem was that my NAS has a hard-coded IP with out-dated/wrong DNS and Gateway IP addresses. Woohoo!
Thanks!
RE: endless Preparing ... and cannot play anything - rikardo1979 - 2nd May, 2013 07:50 PM
nice one
glad you have sorted it. now back to enjoyment 