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Title: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: darrenkarp on March 17, 2007, 07:12:55 pm
Hi,
Just installed ubuntu and LMCE. On starting up MCE I get the above error on a black screen.

Any ideas?
Darren
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: k84 on March 19, 2007, 02:18:00 am
Got the same issues,
trying to reinstall the "suite" now.
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: kir on March 19, 2007, 07:30:13 am
Hi!

It seems that something wrong with DCERouter and it either crashes or doesn't start at your box. Do you have any coredumps in /usr/pluto/coredumps/ folder?

If you still have this problem, please do the following:

1. Check if process DCERouter is still running
2. Look at the last ~100 lines of /var/log/pluto/DCERouter.log to see what is said there, especially if there are some error messages
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: jontawn on March 20, 2007, 01:59:35 am
Hi there

I too have the exact same issue!

I have re-installed ubuntu and LinuxMCE again to see if i'd done anything silly on the initial install.

i appear to have appropriate user access (part of the 'root' user group) so i wouldnt have thought it was permissions based. (which wasnt originally set like that, i made the changes once i'd re-built the box)

my linux knowledge is a little limited, any thoughts on where i could pull the instructions to allow me to check the log-files?

i've got the UI set to basic, its a p4.3.0ghz HT with 2mb cache, asus mobo, antec psu, 2gb of ram, i think the hardware is upto the task (as yet the box doesnt havea tv tuner / pvr facilties as i want to try and get the system up and running before i add the hardware - with a rebuild if needed.

any thoughts / options on how i can resolve this would be great!

many thanks in advance

Jonathan
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: BigWookie on March 20, 2007, 02:58:20 am
Hello,

To answer the question about logs, there are several ways to get to them depending on what you have available and which method you are most comfortable with.  If you have a the desktop running, simply open the file browser and (like windows) move through the directory tree to the path /var/log/pluto/.  Double-clicking the file named DCErouter.log will open it up.

If you don't have a desktop running, Alt+F2 should take you to another console/terminal window.  In here you can use the same commands as if you were SSHd into the box from another machine...

Run an SSH client such as putty from another machine on the network and connect to the IP address of your linux box.  Login with the credentials you use for admin on the web interface and you should be dropped into a prompt like (userid)@DCErouter:.  Use the CD command to change directories like old DOS machines like so:
cd /var/log/pluto and hit enter.
Now you can "tail ./DCERouter.log" without the ""s to see the last few lines of the log file.  You can also "more DCERouter.log" (again without the ""s) to page through the file one screen at a time.  The DOS dir command works just like it did back then or else use the ls command to list files.  The q key will quit out of a "more" display.

As for your error, I'm not getting the same thing on boot, but I can't add an orbiter to my system because it says it can't connect to the DCERouter.  I'm wondering if they are related.
I have two core dumps on my system to look at, but I can't open them.  The tail of my DCERouter.log file shows several internal communications on 127.0.0.1 which is the machine passing messages to itself, but no errors.  If I more the file (it's big) I see lots of stuff, but no failures in the first few thousand lines.  PS shows the DCERouter is running.

If anyone else can shed some light, that would be great.  I'm hoping to test orbiters on Windows hosts and PXE boot of diskless machines to put by my TVs.

Thanks in advance for the help and I hope I answered some of your questions.
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: jontawn on March 22, 2007, 01:33:47 am
Hi there,

I've managed to open the 35mb dcerouter.log file and i cannot see any errors in there - however, ive used ms stuff for years so what may be an error is questionable whether i've picked it up or not.

there's been around 90 people read this thread and only 4 reply's, perhaps is people have problems to get it jotted down on here - as otherwise this will end up as an FAQ instead of a forum - it also helps the people/person who wrote this to see if its either a select few having problems or the masses.

if anyone else has any more thoughts on this, please do jot them down here!

cheers,
Jonathan
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: k84 on March 22, 2007, 03:28:17 am
I have now re-installed ubuntu & linuxmce, starting it up and yes it works a couple of times.
Whilst configuring via the web browser then rebooting the machine, i get the same error.

I dont think this is what caused it, but i atleast disabled the HAL "thing".
Now i have the failed to register router error again,

I've enabled this again via the Web interface, but that doesnt give me much success.
I can see some "unable to bind" in the dce log.

So i guess the service constantly dies, then tries to re-spawn (in the screens session).
But why should it fail?

And how can i set it back up to default , without installing ubuntu again? :)
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: Ender on March 22, 2007, 03:38:08 am
Hi,

I think "unable to bind" means that the router application cannot listen/bind on that port because another program is using it. If the router is not running, I assume any client application will fail to connect to it and won't work (in our case Orbiter).

I would start doing from a console:  "netstat -ap | grep LISTEN | grep 3450" and see what is the application using that port.
(I see that the port used by router is 3450 from /etc/pluto.conf, line "DCERouterPort = 3450").

Hope this helps,
Ender
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: webpaul1 on March 25, 2007, 05:03:36 am
I just posted the 'real' 1.0 release.  Please confirm if this has the same issue.
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: disruptor108 on March 25, 2007, 07:48:15 am
I just downloaded and installed 1.0, and I'm seeing the same issue.

I'm getting this progress bar filling up across the bottom, then the error happens.
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: webpaul1 on March 25, 2007, 07:57:03 am
I'm out of town until Tuesday.  But when I return, if you're still having problems, and anybody is willing to let me log in (LMCE has a remote assist feature you can turn on if you don't have a routable ip), i'll look into it when I'm back.
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: Junni on March 26, 2007, 10:23:20 pm
Same problem here! First time I started LinuxMCE everything went fine. After the first usage, I changed some stuff through the Web admin panel. After that I received the "Orbiter cannot register with the router"...and it keeps doing that! Reinstallation of LinuxMCE doensn't change anything.
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: cearum on March 29, 2007, 08:24:40 am
Now that I have actually gone through the installation with no errors I get this one now. I wonder if it has anything to do with choosing the dhcp server option in the installation. I chose no, but it appears it starts it anyways, at least in the web panel it's enabled. I don't need another dhcp I already have one on my router and it does everything for me.
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: webpaul1 on March 30, 2007, 01:49:04 am
see the tech support link on the home page, and watch for me on yahoo/skype.  i want to try to get to the bottom of this.
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: k84 on March 30, 2007, 03:03:47 pm
Hi,

I have had this error myself, but never on this computer, but on the first computer i tried 2.8ghz p4 machine it happened all the time, just after a couple of reboots or changes on the pluto admin page,

Can it be anything hardware related/drivers or similaer?

/K84
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: Junni on March 30, 2007, 05:21:23 pm
This afternoon, I did a complete format, followed by a Ubuntu install + automatic update. In the meanwhile I downloaded the LinuxMCE disc with the torrentfile. Installation of LinuxMCE is still working at the moment!! I don't know why it's working now....maybe the torrent file (before this, I had the .iso from Europe) ? Maybe the format?
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: jester on April 02, 2007, 05:51:21 pm
I can confirm the previous post from Junni: installation with the torrent file went ok. Still quite a lot '404 file not found' on several packages but a working LinuxMCE install.

Now figuring out how the hell i got to configure it ;)

Regards,
jester.
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: Olav on April 02, 2007, 10:05:17 pm
I also tried to download linuxmce from bittorrent. I installed it on a new ubuntu installation, but the problem is still there! Hoping this will be fixed soon, i have tried to install ubuntu and linuxmce 6 times now... :/
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: wolfbite on April 03, 2007, 04:42:02 am
same here failing at Orbiter failed to register with the router error
switching from black to grey

full installs once with dchp, one without
always fails at same spot (else looks like it almost works)

check previous notes, will check logs later, but seems to be an issues
the error message has got to be coming from somewhere and have a reason

anyone want to break down in steps whats happening?
 
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: efiniti on April 03, 2007, 06:10:56 am
i'm getting the same thing.  =(

I installed from the 1.0 iso. 
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: wolfbite on April 03, 2007, 10:20:16 am
home now
checked dcerouter.log
only thing that looks interesting is that it says
target device 9 (routed to device 9) has not registered
whats device 9? only tv added (just want a basic start for now)

one other thing I did, was to delete all the logs in pluto (after it got to the 2 swapping black/grey screens)
deleted ALL logs in pluto
switched back to swapping screens (waited 3/4 swaps)
then back
and the only logs in pluto
  19_Launchorbiter.sh.log
  Flicker.log
  Deaths
  orbiter_detected_leaks.log
  orbiter_textures_leaks.log
  pluto.log
  running.pids
  SambScanner.log
  died_19_19

no dcerouter.log

more info for those that care (still stuck with swaping black/grey screens)
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: rictec on April 03, 2007, 03:44:31 pm
i think maybe is the network card try to check if even ubuntu can work with it
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: efiniti on April 04, 2007, 05:43:18 am
Ok I posted a link to my log file (filesize a little bit too big).  I only included what happened earlier.  The log incorporates me turning on my computer, letting LinuxMCE start up, and the error showing up.  Right after that I made the log and uploaded it (it said I already made a post so I couldn't post until now).  I installed it as a core+hyrbrid and told it to start up LinuxMCE at startup.

Oh and btw my ra0 works fine (wireless card that connects to the internet).  LinuxMCE apparently installed a dhcp server on eth0 which is my onboard ethernet card.  That sounds kinda weird to me so right now I'm in the process of installing without a dhcp server.  So anyway, here's my log.  Maybe can make heads or tails of it.

http://c-forcecomputers.com/mylog.txt
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: zyanide on April 04, 2007, 07:06:32 pm
I have the exact same problem. After a fresh install the problem appears when I configure something on the admin webpage and do a "quick reload router".


08   04/04/07 18:53:54.574      Received Message from 31 (OnScreen Orbiter / Kontor) to Orbiter Plug-in(9), type 1 id 266 Command:Regen Orbiter, parameters: <0x847bdba0>
08   04/04/07 18:53:54.574        Parameter 2(PK_Device): 31 <0x847bdba0>
08   04/04/07 18:53:54.574        Parameter 21(Force):  <0x847bdba0>
08   04/04/07 18:53:54.574        Parameter 24(Reset):  <0x847bdba0>
05   04/04/07 18:53:54.575      The target device 9 (routed to 9) has not registered. <0x847bdba0>
05   04/04/07 18:53:54.575      Sender: 31 sent message type: 1 ID: 266 and expected a confirmation from 9 <0x847bdba0>
05   04/04/07 18:54:05.690      Socket::ReceiveData 0x8447a30 failed, bytes left 0 start: 1200000 1: 0 1b: 0 2: 0 2b: 0 m_Socket: 119 Incoming_Conn Socket 119 192.168.80.2 <0x847bdba0>
05   04/04/07 18:54:05.690      Socket::ReceiveString2 ReceiveData failed m_Socket: -1 Incoming_Conn Socket 119 192.168.80.2 <0x847bdba0>
05   04/04/07 18:54:05.690      TCPIP: Closing connection to -1003 (Router Dev #0) 0x8447a30 m_Socket: -1 <0x847bdba0>



Device 9 appears to be something called "Orbiter Plugin"

Any hints on how to fix this issue would be nice.

Rgds,
Atle
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: zyanide on April 04, 2007, 07:15:54 pm
Update: After playing around with this a bit more I noticed that every time I ran the wizard I turned off Asterisk and Text-to-speech. After turning them back on the "Orbiter plugin" is once again able to register.

Seems to be a nasty little bug there.

Rgds,
Atle
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: wolfbite on April 05, 2007, 12:05:18 am
hmmm I also turned off asterix, but not the text to speech.

Its a clue, will test tonight
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: efiniti on April 06, 2007, 06:32:14 am
hmm i did a reinstall and now i'm now getting the issue.  not sure what it could've been, but now i don't see the issue so i dunno.  gl to others out there tho.  =\
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: madboo on April 07, 2007, 06:19:59 pm
I had the same problem, re-enabling asterisk fixed it.
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: Audun on April 08, 2007, 11:09:13 pm
Update: After playing around with this a bit more I noticed that every time I ran the wizard I turned off Asterisk and Text-to-speech. After turning them back on the "Orbiter plugin" is once again able to register.

I can confirm that. Re-enabling Aterisk and Text-to-speech and a reboot did it.
Title: Re: Orbiter failed to register with the router error
Post by: wolfbite on April 10, 2007, 02:10:59 pm
Yep! confirmed here too

Might surgest a warning against that flag (or disabled until proven fixed)