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iPanini:
I feel like a total idiot.

Background:
- I had a Debian usb installer stick laying around, used it to install on an Intel NUC.
- upgraded to Debian Bookworm
- I was not aware whether I'm running X11 or Wayland, but it seems to be X11


--- Code: ---erwin@JRiver-deb:~/.jriver/Media Center 33$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11
--- End code ---

erwin@JRiver-deb:~$ hostnamectl
 Static hostname: JRiver-deb
       Icon name: computer-desktop
         Chassis: desktop 🖥️
      Machine ID: 4e94781fbe87464aa068a6326fb98770
         Boot ID: 6f68cf4064444c86a812d7b2d753e2f7
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 
          Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-33-amd64
    Architecture: x86-64
 Hardware Vendor: Intel Corporation
  Hardware Model: NUC7i3DNKE
Firmware Version: DNKBLi30.86A.0081.2023.1115.1731
erwin@JRiver-deb:~$

- I have /usr/bin/mediacenter33
erwin@JRiver-deb:/usr/bin$ ls -la mediacenter33
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38646744 Apr 10 18:56 mediacenter33

- Media Center 33 also figures under the > Menu > Sound & Video > Media Center 33

But when I try to run it, nothing happens?
What am I missing? Are permissions ok?

Thanks for helping out!

Awesome Donkey:
Try running mediacenter33 from the Terminal and see what it says (e.g. segmentation fault, etc.). If all else fails try deleting the hidden .jriver folder in your Home directory and try running mediacenter33 again.

iPanini:

--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on April 28, 2025, 08:40:38 am ---Try running mediacenter33 from the Terminal and see what it says (e.g. segmentation fault, etc.). If all else fails try deleting the hidden .jriver folder in your Home directory and try running mediacenter33 again.

--- End quote ---

Thanks for answering. Did as suggested, terminal > mediacenter33 => the terminal cmd line just immediately jumped to the next line, nothing happened.

Then removed .jriver in homedir.
Repeated issuing mediacenter33 from the terminal. => took a bit longer, but again nothing happened.
Upon checking, there was a new .jriver folder created.

I remember (long time ago) there was some command to run a command in terminal like verbose or with additional output, but I don't remember and can't seem to find it?
I think it was something with bla-bla-command -tail

Thanks for helping out!

bob:
What method did you use to install MC?

iPanini:
Hi Bob, thanks for hopping in.
To be honest I tried about everything I could find here on the forums.
Starting first with downloading the installer MediaCenter-33.0.72-amd64.deb, then opening with GDebi package installer.
Then later on I tried going over the install following  https://git.bryanroessler.com/bryan/installJRMC

I've just additionally installed webmin and that is running ok, so I can ssh into the machine and do some checking using webmin.

Is there some way to check if a process of mediacenter33 is running?
=> In webmin > Running Processes I have indeed a process mediacenter33
It is located under cinnamon-launcher

So it seems tp be running, but there's no gui that I can see? I guess the [JRWeb]<defunct> does not look OK?
I think Apache is installed, have not used it yet, might that be a problem?

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