snapcast-server down although activated in GUI

[bbernhard]

I just installed the volumio-snapcast-plugin on a freshly deployed Volumio (version: latest version) and for some reason the snapcast-server wasn't starting although the plugin was activated and the snapcast server was enabled the UI.

systemctl status snapserver showed the following output:

Oct 10 18:10:42 wohnzimmer systemd[1]: snapserver.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Oct 10 18:10:42 wohnzimmer systemd[1]: Stopping Snapcast server...
Oct 10 18:10:42 wohnzimmer systemd[1]: Starting Snapcast server...
Oct 10 18:10:42 wohnzimmer systemd[1]: snapserver.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Oct 10 18:10:42 wohnzimmer systemd[1]: Failed to start Snapcast server.
Oct 10 18:10:42 wohnzimmer systemd[1]: Unit snapserver.service entered failed state.

I also tried rebooting Volumio, but unfortunately that didn't solve the problem. The only thing that worked for me, was executing

systemctl daemon-reload

on the commandline. After that I was able to start the snapcast-server with:

systemctl start snapserver

After I've manually fixed the problem, everything was working fine (the system also survived a reboot ;)).

Not sure if this is already known, so I thought I'd create a ticket for that.

[camg70]

I dp have same problema , but mitigation daemon-reload does not solve. I have message: UNIT snapserver.service is masked.

[camg70]

I believe plugin is downloading latest release of snapcast that has been updated to 0.16.0.... and is not compatible

[Saiyato]

I've seen it happen now, working on a fix, don't know where this is coming from tbh

[camg70]

I Forced Plugin to install old version 0.15.0 from snapcast and it's ok. Just for notice : Plugin Volspotconnet2 seems to be also modified not working with snapcast, will check later ant return with news, thanks Saiyato...

[tolexy]

Firstly, thanks for all the work on this! I wanted to second all the comments above. Multiroom works fine, settings all seem correct, but even though plugin is enabled in volumio, the snapclient and snapserver cannot start. The service is masked. Unmasking removes the symlink and then the file is not found and cannot even uninstall the plugin from within volumio at that point.

WIll try the old version 0.15.0 perhaps later.

[tolexy]

for what it's worth, i did a factory reset on the volumio rpi. Upgraded to newest version of volumio 2.657 and installed version 0.15 only. Unfortunately I still get this message from the snapserver pi box

snapclient pi (running volumio 2.657 and snapcast plugin 0.16) is working it seems...

This may be a bit naive, but if and when snapserver is started, when I hit play on the main server, the client should start playing immediately yes?

[mountwebs]

Same issue here.

I Forced Plugin to install old version 0.15.0 from snapcast and it's ok.

camg70: It would be great if you could share how this is done.

[camg70]

I did a manual installation of plugin "git clone." there is a file called install.sh or start....sh that downloads de last version os snapcast.. edit it,,,a sequence of IF...depending on kind of processor you use. delete de line that pull the version . instead, you should download directly from gitub older version of snapcast to same expected folder than, when you run volumio plugin install, the installation will void download and will install older version.

I can make it more clear if you need

mountwebs notifications@github.com escreveu no dia sábado, 26/10/2019 à(s) 23:00:

Same issue here.

I Forced Plugin to install old version 0.15.0 from snapcast and it's ok. How did you do that, camg70?

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