Response received from host but CLI not active.

[musoware]

I don't think this is a bug in Muso, but it's often failing to connect to squeezebox players, and I have found that this is because the LMS CLI isn't responding. On the Test CLI button I'm getting:

Response received from host but CLI not active. Check CLI port number (default is 9090).

Even an external telnet session isn't responding, which is why I don't think it's a Muso bug (unless it's Muso that's responsible for putting it into this state, but I don't think so). It's more likely to be an issue with LMS or VortexBox.

Fortunately the workaround is fairly simple if a little inconvenient: stop and restart LMS.

Amyone else have this problem lately?

[MDE]

I have had problems with LMS not responding, even though it seems to be running. I assumed it was an LMS problem (it also sometimes just stops for no good reason). As you say - solved by stopping and restarting. Next time it happens, I'll poke around a bit more.

[musoware]

It never used to occur but it's doing so quite often lately (once a day at least). What LMS platform are you on?

I hope it's not the new remote control that's affected it in some way - that also uses a telnet session to communicate via the CLI, but it's only using the same code as the main application.

[MDE]

7.7.2 on the main server ( I gave up updating after a while as I decided there were more negatives than positives).
I have had the problem intermittently (once every day or two) for a while, so nothing to do with the app.

[Morbeas]

I'm actually relieved to read this. I've been having problems with LMS crashing more and more lately. Are there no hints as to what might be causing it in the logs?

[Morbeas]

I have this a lot in the logs:

[13-03-22 05:11:03.9541] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1304) Warning: [05:11:03.9534] Can't locate auto/IO/Interface/autosplit.ix in @INC (@INC contains: /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/TrackStat/lib /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/SongLyrics/lib /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/NoSetup/lib CODE(0xc0dd4fc) /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/InformationScreen/lib /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/DatabaseQuery/lib /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/CustomScan/lib /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/CustomBrowse/lib /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Plugins/MHCPAN /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Cache/InstalledPlugins /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/CPAN/arch/5.8/X86 /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/CPAN/arch/5.8/X86/auto /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/CPAN/arch/5.8.6/X86 /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/CPAN/arch/5.8.6/X86/auto /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/CPAN/arch/X86 /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/lib /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/CPAN /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/X86 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/X86 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl . CODE(0xc0dd58c)) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/AutoLoader.pm line 170.
at /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/CPAN/IO/Interface.pm line 12
[13-03-22 08:23:25.8486] Slim::Web::JSONRPC::requestMethod (443) request not dispatchable!
[13-03-22 08:31:45.5366] Slim::Web::JSONRPC::requestMethod (443) request not dispatchable!

[musoware]

LMS isn't crashing for me, it's acting normally outside the CLI not responding, i.e. I can interact with it via the squeezebox device remote even when I get that error on the Test CLI button.

[Morbeas]

Oh no, not me. Once it crashes, I have no choice but to stop/start LMS to get it to respond again.

[Morbeas]

Do the error messages from my logs above mean anything to you?

[musoware]

Different issue then.
No, not really.