An error has occurred with Pandora.

[brandex07]

When opening Hermes, as of recently, I get the following error:

When I try to change stations, the error persists.

[nriley]

Please note that Hermes is essentially an abandoned project — if anyone wants to work on fixing this, great, but neither Alex, Winston nor I are actively working on it nor do any of us have any plans to do so in the near future. (For what it's worth, I do not see this on my 10.11 Mac.)

[GeorgeGo]

I'm having the same issue on my 10.11 mac. This only started maybe 3 days ago.

[smartwatermelon]

Same here, on 10.11. However, I waited a few minutes, clicked the Try Again button and then it started working. During the interim I logged in to Pandora.com to see if it was a service or account issue. Perhaps that reactivated something?

[smartwatermelon]

Update to above: My guess is that Pandora is expiring a login token (or somesuch). When I launch Hermes, I get the error; I quit Hermes, go to Pandora.com and log in, and then re-launch Hermes and it works.

[nmelnick]

Similar to above, if within Hermes I go to the Pandora menu, then to Sign out, and reauthenticate, I'm back in business.

[errriclee]

That usually shows up when I launch it using 10.11. Pressing Try Again somewhere between 2-10 times in a row will usually fix it.

[sephamorr]

I fixed this issue in this fork: https://github.com/sephamorr/hermes

[ghost]

Yeah, I did what @ericworking did and it worked. I got the same message as you did @brandex07 on my MacBook Air 10.11.1 version (El Capitan and it worked.) I really like this app tho because it's very useful!

[stsievert]

@sephamorr you should submit a pull request with your fork. I'd love to see that!

[nriley]

For anyone who is experiencing this problem, please try out https://sabi.net/temp/Hermes-1.2.7b1.zip and see if it works for you.

[ryanbmilbourne]

@nriley I downloaded your beta and got the following dump when starting:

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
Assertion failed: (0), function -[URLConnection start], file /Users/nicholas/Documents/Development/Hermes/Sources/URLConnection.m, line 105.

[nriley]

That's an assertion that fires when it can't open a connection to the server, but of course I've never seen anything like it. Could you attach the full crash log? Thanks.

[Skinner927]

It seems what's happening is the application was configured/compiled with absolute paths on your system nriley and it's failing because it can't find a specified file.

Here's the crash log: hermes_dump.txt

[nriley]

Thanks, that is helpful. I can't reproduce it, but I think that assertion may not actually need to be there.

@Skinner927 and @ryanbmilbourne, try this one: https://sabi.net/temp/Hermes-1.2.7b2.1.zip

If it still fails to work, please attach a crash report (if any) and if it fails to work but doesn't crash, there should be a line in Console which looks like "Expected read stream to be open, but it was not". If you can copy and paste that, I'd appreciate it.

[Skinner927]

@nriley No crash, but it doesn't work. The loading wheel goes for a little longer than it used to but eventually displays the attached generic error.

I'm not experienced with xcode or objective-c but I would be more than happy to load this project up in xcode and and set some breakpoints and give feedback if that would be helpful. Let me know.

EDIT Slight follow up.

I cleared the password from keychain and opened Hermes and tried to login, same error.

[nriley]

Oh well, it was worth a shot. I still have not been able to replicate this. I tried simulating a bad network connection from Network Link Conditioner, and anything short of "Very Bad Network" (10% packet loss) works just fine for me.

You can try building Hermes from source (make sure to use the "Hermes" rather than "Hermes (Release —…)" target. Run it until it fails and email me the console log — my username at sabi dot net. Thanks.

[Skinner927]

@nriley Curent master has the latest fixes? The modifications you did for the b2.1 build don't seem to have been pushed.

My mistake, they have. I went off timestamps instead of commit messages.

[nriley]

Good point, I didn't even commit them. Pushed.

[nobecutan]

Had the same Assertion failed: (0), function -[URLConnection start], file /Users/nicholas/Documents/Development/Hermes/Sources/URLConnection.m, line 105. issue. Was fixed before I could say so. Great work @nriley. Thanks a lot!

[Skinner927]

@nriley was kind enough to respond to my emails and sent me a built version that works! I hope he doesn't mind me posting this up.

https://sabi.net/temp/Hermes-1.2.7b3.zip

[nriley]

1.2.7 is now released and this problem appears to be fixed for good, I hope! Thanks everyone.