The Media Stack appears to stall

Posted by Stuu-World

Not sure if its just me but I noticed today (twice did two installs) that when installing it appears to freeze and not say done. I'll leave it for 10 mins and then refresh it worked the first time around.

5 replies

tomspark wrote:

Thanks for the detail, and nice work getting it going manually — you didn't break anything. In plain terms: the media apps are set up to run behind your VPN, so if Surfshark doesn't connect cleanly on the first try, the whole stack just sits and waits, and the installer looks frozen even though it's only stuck waiting on the VPN. That's our side to fix — it should show an error instead of hanging, and we're on it. If you want us to chase the Surfshark hiccup specifically, run sparkbox doctor and paste what it says about the VPN and I'll take a look.

Stuu-World wrote:

Been 10 mins trying to install on this screen. Third time install, as the requests from seerr was going going through to Qbittorrent.

Stuu-World wrote:

Looks like it was a mix of the Surfshark erroring and the Media not setting up right. Doing it manually looks like its working

Technofly17 wrote:

This happened to me on my first time when the vpn wasnt working and I let it sit there for an hour before refreshing the dashboard. Good to know it was the vpn.