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   Bob Latham to druck   
   Re: Latest updates break my pi players   
   19 Feb 24 20:29:33   
   
   From: bob@sick-of-spam.invalid   
      
   In article ,   
      druck  wrote:   
   > On 19/02/2024 15:33, Bob Latham wrote:   
   > > In article <5b352dbbf6bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>,   
   > >     Bob Latham  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> It looks as though neither components is even starting.   
      
   > First try starting the program from a terminal window (edit the   
   > main menu entry to find the command name if you don't know it),   
   > there will often be a very obvious error displayed.   
      
   Right, I'm hoping that a putty window is sufficient but certainly no   
   error when the manual start command is issued.   
      
   sudo /home/pi/mediaplayer/run.sh   
      
   > Failing that in a terminal do a   
   > tail -f /var/log/syslog   
      
   pi@LinnPi-base1:~/mediaplayer/scripts/systemd $ tail -f   
   /var/log/syslog   
   tail: cannot open '/var/log/syslog' for reading: No such file or   
   directory   
   tail: no files remaining   
      
   There is a file mediaplayer.log but I cannot see a way to get this   
   public so you can have a look.   
      
   > Then start the program again.   
      
   Still nothing unfortunately.   
      
   > > sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk   
   > >   
   > > That has stopped working, it gives the error:   
      
   > jdk-11 is end of life   
      
   Oh right.   
      
   > > So I found another install command.   
   > > sudo apt install default-jdk   
   > >   
   > > Which installed Java 17 with error but is it a good replacement?   
      
   Brain got ahead of fingers there. There was NO error.   
      
   > Yes, there should be very little hasn't been updated to work with   
   > that.   
      
   Oh dear. I would not be surprised if MediaPlayer has not been updated.   
      
   > > Does this look like it might be the issue?   
      
   > You need to tell us, see above.   
      
   Thanks.   
      
   Bob.   
      
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