Firefly cannot start :cry:

[qualidat]

I have made a new Windows XP installation and then installed Firefly. At first it looks verry nice, all options works fine, I can use it by iTunes for Mac in my LAN. I’am happy.

The big disappointment was coming past the first restart of my server. The Firefly logo was red coloured. I open Firefly from taskbar and klick “start server”. Nothing. Then the message: “Failed to start Firefly Media Server”.
Reset the computer, try again, same result.

Then I install Firefly again. At first it works. Past restart it works not. “Failed …” what a f*u*c*k*!

This are messages from my logfile:

2008-07-31 21:28:20 (eb418476): Starting playlist scan
2008-07-31 21:28:37 (eb418476): Scanned 24101 songs (was 24101) in 278 seconds
2008-07-31 21:30:46 (eb418476): Stopping gracefully
2008-07-31 21:30:46 (eb418476): Stopping rendezvous daemon
2008-07-31 21:30:46 (eb418476): Closing database
2008-07-31 21:30:46 (eb418476): Done!

Why is stopping the rendevouz daemon? I have not done this.
Why its not possible to use simple old fashion tcp/udp?

I’am worry, please help me out. thanks.

Frank

[EVILRipper]

The current debuglevel gives no clues to what could be causing the ‘crash’.
Whenever something goes wrong in firefly, it usually runs the shutdown script.
I don’t know much about firefly on windows, but there should be an option named debuglevel, put it up to level 5 or 9, and have another look in the logfile. Maybe then you can find what’s causing firefly to die.

[schoofi]

It seems I am dealing with the same issue, but I am able to run Firefly in Debug Mode with a DOS-Box open. The windows service instead isn’t working.

schoofi

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