SageTV 5 for Linux Beta is now available - with Placeshifting & wireless MVP!!

[jreichen]

Originally Posted by brain187

hey jreichen,

no i really didn't find a fix for it , but here is what i did.
i installed sage as a server only and am using a media extender
hooked to my tv. even though this problem dose exist ,i am very
happy with my purchase! just curious what video card are you running?

MSI GeForce 6200 128MB 64-bit AGP

I'll enter a bug report when I get a chance to reboot into Linux and get a log.

[obrien.dan]

Morning all,

I just updated my v4 SageTV to the latest v5 and I'm getting a Java exception when it tries to start SageTVPlaceshifter:

Attempting to connecto to server at 127.0.0.1:31099
ERROR with socket connection: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
waiting for X server to shut down.



Has anyone had similar issues?

[_Demo_]

Originally Posted by obrien.dan

I just updated my v4 SageTV to the latest v5 and I'm getting a Java exception when it tries to start SageTVPlaceshifter:

Attempting to connecto to server at 127.0.0.1:31099
ERROR with socket connection: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
waiting for X server to shut down.

Could you look at the /opt/sagetv/server/sagetv_0.txt log, it seems like the server didn't start.

_Demo_

[tab]

I'm running into Java issues as well.

Fresh drive with the gentoo 2006.0 build installed -
Sage 5 script pulled down, installed, reg key entered -

Then the following error came up:
Changing to SageTV directory /opt/sagetv/server
Starting server mode
Unrecognized VM option 'MaxGCPauseMillis=25'
Could not create the Java virtual machine.

The cconnection of the client fails right after this since the server errored out.

I received the above error with the version of Java that was pulled down by the Sage install script:
blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03
blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03

I installed sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06 - same error.

Updated /etc/env.d/20java with the new path information for jre 1.5 - and now receive the following:

Error w/ GFX Thread: java.io.EOFException
at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source)
at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source)
at sage.miniclient.MiniClientConnection.access$100(MiniClientConnection.java:6)

Any ideas?
Is the server starting and the client is not connecting now?

[Narflex]

You can always just edit the startsage script and remove those options that it passes to the JVM. They're not essential, they just modify how the garbage collector works slightly in Java 1.5. (those specific options don't exist in 1.4)

[tab]

I can see the lines having to do with java after the 'echo Starting server mode' line in the startsage script.

If these are the correct lines, there appear to be numerous java commands being passed in the script.

How scaled back can this command line be?
I'm not a java coder so I have no clue what I should cut/comment out...

Actually - it is failing within the sageclient script.
I only see two lines for java and it seems to fail with either or both enabled/disabled.

The failing signature looks like:
Changing to SageTV directory /opt/sagetv/server
starting server mode
changing to sagetv directory /opt/sagetv/client
waiting for x server to shut down

[Narflex]

Just remove the ones that are giving you errors like you had. That's the safest thing to do.

[asbrown]

Originally Posted by _Demo_

It seems your video card doesn't have hardware overlay with colorkey support which is required for this version. We'll be adding other modes in future versions.

Could you confirm problems only happen when video is playing back?

_Demo_

I am having the same issue.

I have an nvidia 6600GT with the latest nvidia drivers and xorg emerged. Does the 6600GT really not have hardware overlay with colorkey support? or did I miss something while installing?

[Dekard]

Originally Posted by Narflex

Just remove the ones that are giving you errors like you had. That's the safest thing to do.

If the lines aren't required why are they in there?

[obrien.dan]

Originally Posted by _Demo_

Could you look at the /opt/sagetv/server/sagetv_0.txt log, it seems like the server didn't start.

_Demo_

Sorry, it's been a really hectic month... I finally had time to try the install again... i got the same error and after checking the log, it was getting a java.net.UnknownHostException.

I fixed it by adding a line to the /etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost STVMC-520

It seems to be working now, except the password I set during the setup process isn't working, not a huge deal... should be a quick fix.

[obrien.dan]

After I added the hostname to the /etc/hosts file everything worked fine... today after work I shut it down so I could move it back to my entertainment center, after I hooked it up I got a new java.net.SocketException

Mon 7/24 20:09:16.031 Loaded
Mon 7/24 20:10:55.247 MiniUI ServerSocket died from:java.net.SocketException: Socket closed
Mon 7/24 20:10:55.250 Error Calling finishWatch from VF goodbye:java.lang.NullPointerException
Mon 7/24 20:10:55.342 Error Calling finishWatch from VF goodbye:java.lang.NullPointerException

So I reinstalled, this time I went over everything from start to finish, I added a startup script that checks the hostname and checks the /etc/hosts to make sure that 127.0.0.1 points to the predefined hostname.

now i have a completely different error:

Mon 7/24 21:25:50.745 Loaded
Mon 7/24 21:26:00.545 Error in MediaServerConnection of :java.io.EOFException java.io.EOFException
Mon 7/24 21:26:00.546 at sage.MediaServer$a.a(Unknown Source)
Mon 7/24 21:26:00.546 at sage.MediaServer$a.run(Unknown Source)
Mon 7/24 21:26:00.546 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Mon 7/24 21:26:02.685 locale = en

At this point I don't know what to do, this is the 3rd time I've installed this and I've considered using 4.x but I can't find the CD and it doesn't seem to be available at the downlod page anymore. From what I saw in the short period I had v5 working it seems to load faster and run smoother than v4 did, and I would like to use it (if i can get it running)...

Any Ideas?