Crashes on fresh install, latest stable

Software
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Hi,

I started from a fresh install. Zynthian crashes reproducably (error screen then reboot)

  • when I try to load the stock snapshot “three-on-three”
  • or when I try to add a Surge layer

I guess it can’t only be me.

Any ideas? Yes, I just did an “update”, just to be sure…

Thank you!

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What’s your setup, a kit or a self build? How’s your power situation? Have you tried putting the image on a different SD Card?

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Hi,
thanks for your quick reply. It’s headless and controlled via VNC and MIDI. I started from scratch because I urgently needed a SD card for another project… so the SD card is brand new and the same model as before, where I had no (SD card related) problems.

It is a Raspi 4, 8GB with the official power supply.

It is not just “flaky” or “fragile”. It literally crashes every time and I experienced that about half an hour after I did the fresh install. Can you please try to load the “three-on-three” stock snapshot? Or try to add a Surge layer?

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Thanks. We can discount the psu. We’d still like the hardware details. Stuff you have plugged in, sound device if any. A screenshot of the web page with the hw & branch info would be nice. Some logs from the web interface if you have access to it after the crash. That sort of stuff.

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Ah, good point. Haven’t played with the logs yet.
This is what the log says for the “Surge issue”:
Apr 19 10:51:57 zynthian startx[2144]: ERROR:zynthian_lv2.get_plugin_presets: Can't load presets cache file '/zynthian/config/jalv/presets_Surge.json': [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/zynthian/config/jalv/presets_Surge.json'

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This is my system overview.

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And this is something similar found when loading the snapshot “three-on-three”:

Apr 19 11:07:04 zynthian startx[4117]: ERROR:zynthian_lv2.get_plugin_presets: Can't load presets cache file '/zynthian/config/jalv/presets_Obxd.json': [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/zynthian/config/jalv/presets_Obxd.json'

I hope this helps.

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Ok, I could help myself: I had to click “Search for new Plugins & Presets” at Software/LV2 Plugins in the webconf.

Maybe these presets should have been included in the zynthian image.

Thanks for pointing me to the logs!

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Bugs go here GitHub - zynthian/zynthian-issue-tracking: Centralized Issue Tracking for Zynthian Project

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It seems that the first-boot process didn’t finish the preset cache regeneration. You could click the “Search for new Plugins & Presets” button in the webconf LV2 tab, or try to re-burn the SD image and leave the first-boot process to end. Simply wait until the main menu is shown for a while.

Regards,

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Ah, I remember it was late that evening. I started configuring everything as soon as the webconf became available. Afterwards I hit “reboot”. Perhaps that was too early.

Ok, learned :slight_smile: