Slimserver hangs on "Loading Home..."

sydney-troz · 12-11-2007, 04:24 PM

Hi

I have Ubuntu 7.04 on my laptop, with Slimserver 6.3.0-4. The server works fine when viewing it in a browser (http://localhost:9000), and I can view it from my LAN, as well as the net (i've forwarded the port on my router).

My problem is this: I have a webpage on the ftp/web server provided by my ISP that consists of 3 frames, two of which are the slimserver page and an imbedded audio player. When the slimserver frame loads, it goes shows a number of messages "Loading xxx...", but when it hits "Loading Home..." it freezes. I got the same result on different machines. I googled it, but it doesn't look like anyone else if having this problem. I took a brief look at slimserver.pl, but I'm not familiar with Perl and I didn't see anything that looked directly relevant.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

kzutter · 12-12-2007, 06:51 PM

Since Slimserver works fine under normal use and you are having problems with a particular webpage. I would look at the webpage's code before I blamed Slimserver.

BTW- Slimserver includes a java player applet. You don't need to go through these gyrations to listen to your music from your own Slimserver webpage. (But, then , maybe you have something else up your sleeve ;-)

sydney-troz · 12-12-2007, 09:51 PM

Hmm, thanks. I do have somthing else up my sleeve, which is that the java plugin crashes firefox on my machine

Flash, however, doesn't. The other page is just basic framesets. Relevant code below.

Code:

<FRAMESET rows="125, *">
  <FRAME src="instructions.html">
  <FRAMESET cols="*, 420">
    <FRAME src="http://klippens.gotdns.com:9000/">
    <FRAME src="player.html">
  </FRAMESET>

kzutter · 12-13-2007, 07:11 PM

I see what you mean. It is generating a script error. Firefox was degrading nicely, but when I switched to IEtab view, it threw up an unhandled exception for my debugging pleasure. Looks like some javascript is getting hung up while doing something with frames. Probably has no idea that its frame is now nested inside your frames. the javascript file in question is /html/home.js

the lines it hangs on is
top.frames.browseframe.location.href = newurl;

I cannot help you any more except to say:
A) there is a newer version of slimserver ( 6.5, I believe) - it may help
B) I listen to my slimserver with windows media player http://myserver:9000/stream.mp3