Server 2012 R2

[D3w4yne]

Hi!

I've got a new home server and it's running 2012 R2 Standard. I'm working on migrating everything from my desktop up to the new server and I hit a snag with nDroid. I'm unable to start the service.

Log snippet:

Code:

13/01/2014 21:48:22.531 serviceHelper.GetConnStrings() returned : True
13/01/2014 21:48:22.531 nDroidService v2.0.2 build: 2.0.5050.37956 started.
13/01/2014 21:48:22.541 Creating new nDroidServiceListener object...
13/01/2014 21:48:22.541 Creating new nDroidServiceStreamer object...
13/01/2014 21:48:22.541 Creating new nDroidServiceListener thread...
13/01/2014 21:48:22.541 Creating new nDroidServiceStreamer thread...
13/01/2014 21:48:22.541 Starting nDroidServiceListener thread...
13/01/2014 21:48:22.541 Starting nDroidServiceStreamer thread...
13/01/2014 21:48:22.541 OnStart() - Creating FileGenerator object...
13/01/2014 21:48:22.541 OnStart() - Creating FileGenerator thread...
13/01/2014 21:48:22.541 OnStart() - Starting FileGenerator thread...
13/01/2014 21:48:22.690 UnhandledExceptionHandler caught exception. threw exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   at uk.co.beetec.csharp.nDroid.nDroidLib.nDroidServiceHelper.GenerateChannelsDataFile() in C:\Documents and Settings\gbpvr\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\nDroidService\nDroidLib\nDroidServiceHelper.cs:line 879
   at uk.co.beetec.csharp.nDroid.nDroidServiceFileGenerator.Start() in C:\Documents and Settings\gbpvr\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\nDroidService\nDroidService\nDroidServiceFileGenerator.cs:line 31
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

I've got C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) installed.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Dewayne

[bgowland]

Can you zip and attach the nDroid service logs? I'm not 100% sure why it would be throwing an error at that point. Possibly an issue with file system permissions but I'd need to see the logs in full.

Cheers,
Brian

[D3w4yne]

Here you go.

Thanks for looking into it. I didn't find much out there about nDroid on 2012 R2 so hopefully this is new territory for you

[bgowland]

A few questions...

1. Which version of npvr are you using?
   
2. Is npvr up and running without problems?
   
3. Assuming the answer to 2. is "yes", what is the user account you're using for the npvr recording service and is it the same used for the nDroid service?
   

Basically the issue seems to be that the nDroid service is unable to locate a system DLL which it needs to access the npvr database. This could be a permissions problem but I'm not sure.

Cheers,
Brian

[whurlston]

Service starts fine on Server 2012 R1 here. I can't think of anything that has changed between R1 and R2 that would affect nDroid so I would have to agree with the permissions issue.

[mvallevand]

I think nDroid requires the full VS 2010 runtime, which is not installed with NextPVR.

Martin

[D3w4yne]

I'm running npvr 3.1.1 and it is working fine. I did have to get some files from a Windows 8.1 workstation to enable BDA so that it could communicate with my tuner.

See: http://www.tenniswood.co.uk/technology/w...rver-2012/

That is for 2012 but I updated the scripts for 2012 R2/8.1

Both npvr and ndroid services are running as local system. Local system should not have any permissions issues.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable is installed.

Could you elaborate on which dll the service is having problems accessing?

Thanks,

Dewayne

[bgowland]

I think nDroid requires the full VS 2010 runtime, which is not installed with NextPVR.

Martin

I thought that was a pre-requisite of npvr v3.x which is why I asked about npvr version.

[mvallevand]

No, sub opted to do a minimal install not accessible to other apps.

Martin

[bgowland]

I'm running npvr 3.1.1 and it is working fine. I did have to get some files from a Windows 8.1 workstation to enable BDA so that it could communicate with my tuner.

See: http://www.tenniswood.co.uk/technology/w...rver-2012/

That is for 2012 but I updated the scripts for 2012 R2/8.1

Both npvr and ndroid services are running as local system. Local system should not have any permissions issues.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable is installed.

Could you elaborate on which dll the service is having problems accessing?

Thanks,

Dewayne

Bear with me for a few minutes. Just checking a few things related to Martin's comments. FYI the dll in question is SQLite.Interop.dll - if you can find it in the npvr or ndroid install directories let me know. Be right back (currently juggling two computers at the moment).