Thanks Fourwinds for your suggestion. I gave it a try right away:
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112 8530 0.1 0.6 4668 1684 ? Ss 22:13 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/squeezecenter_safe /usr/sbin/squeezecenter-server --prefsdir /var/lib/squeezecenter/prefs --logdir /var/log/squeezecenter/ --cachedir /var/lib/squeezecenter/cache
112 8538 105 3.8 19928 9988 ? R 22:14 0:04 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/squeezecenter-server --prefsdir /var/lib/squeezecenter/prefs --logdir /var/log/squeezecenter/ --cachedir /var/lib/squeezecenter/cache
Unfortunately it does not make more sense to me than the previous output.
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The reason why I even tried to update to 1.2.0 (even though the obvious reason of wanting to have the latest and greatest) is the fact that I have a Popcorn Hour A-110 connected through a network to my B2 using a SMB share. I've streamed movies with fairly good results in this setup.
One day my wife was unable to use the Popcorn. It seemed to have difficulties even listing the files on the B2 samba share. Oh boy, I thought, now the Popcorn broke down.
However, it turned out that it worked just fine when looking at a share on my regular PC.
I must admit that I have previously been forced to restart my B2 on a bi-weekly basis due to the fact that file transfers (streaming from the samba share) has been slow or inadequate and this restarting has always helped with good throughput as result (for another 14 days)
Anyway, this time nothing helped. Upgrading to 1.2.0 surely did not help either, it made things worse.
If it was not for the fact that I have a Squeezebox connected to my system, I actually think that I would have chosen a less fancy destiny for my B2 such as a book stand on a shelf, and just purchased a regular NAS.
In my point of view the B2 seems to under perform as a firewall as well. When using B2 as a firewall I seem to loose about 30% of my bandwidth compared to a dirt cheep D-Link router.
Maybe the best is just to discard all data on the disc and hope that a re-format and re-installation makes things go back to normal again. Okay, that normal includes a bi-weekly reboot.
Or just put the B2 to rest, run the Squeezecenter from the PC and live a happy life with a lot cheaper NAS.
Which way to go ?
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