Suggestion: When a trial runs out on server install, give a better error message

[WhiteWhisker]

I just had a minor freakout when my sagetv server service wouldnt startup with a very generic:

"Windows could not start the SageTV service on Local Computer.

Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."

Nothing in the logs, etc...in the future would be good to put something in the eventlog at least to prevent people from doing what I just did (a completely unncessary rollback to last nights backup).

[freedml]

Some of the error messages have been improved recently and some haven't. SageTV often rings alarm bells which will just go away if you give it a chance. I now wait at least a day before doing anything drastic like reinstalling and the problem always goes away.

[brianblank]

I second this. I spent the last hour updating Java, un/reinstallting SageTV, playing around with service settings, only to stumble on this thread. Thanks WhiteWhisker, but Sage please improve the error messages.

[putch]

Something needs to be done about this. I don't know what happened but my license got invalidated or something. But I wasn't getting the prompt to re-enter my key (I even uninstalled sage and re-installed). Ultimately I had to log in as a different user and try to open sage in order to get the prompt to re-enter my license key. At least there should be a way to force a license key update or check like there is with placeshifter keys.

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by putch

At least there should be a way to force a license key update...

There is. See p. 264 of the manual.