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Posted: **Wed Jun 26, 2024 12:37 am**

On Saturday my UMS stopped functioning. I have not been able to solve the problem. I need some assistance.

Posted: **Wed Jun 26, 2024 6:27 am**

Your logs are strange and incomplete.
You posted one with just SHARED.conf, one with just UMS.conf, and the other with a previous part of a log that was not in trace mode.

Please follow the instructions from the red section above on how to do proper logs which will pack all the files into one zip file.

I did see some errors in the partial logs though and might be able to piece together what is happening

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Failed to start web graphical user interface server (/0.0.0.0:9001) : Address already in use: bind

This means another program is using that port so UMS cannot use it. The odd part is the IP address. I know little about networking so had to check what this means but from what it appears to be 0.0.0.0 means all IP addresses on a computer so something will always be using one. It should be using something like localhost:9001 or 127.0.0.0:9001

I see some mention of forced IPs but does not show in UMS.conf, I guess you were trying something but those IPs did not exist on that interface.

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Using forced address: 192.168.0.1
Using forced address: 192.168.0.16
Using forced address: 192.168.0.13

which would give the error

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Using forced address: 192.168.0.1
Exception in thread "background-task-1" java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.net.NetworkInterface.isUp()" because "tmpNetworkInterface" is null
	at net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration.getNetworkInterfaceAssociationFromConfig(NetworkConfiguration.java:677)
	at net.pms.network.mediaserver.MediaServer.init(MediaServer.java:62)
	at net.pms.network.mediaserver.MediaServer.start(MediaServer.java:84)
	at net.pms.PMS.lambda$resetMediaServer$1(PMS.java:700)
	at net.pms.util.TaskRunner.lambda$submitNamed$0(TaskRunner.java:107)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

As I am going though I saw another odd IP which is not a local one

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 org.jupnp.transport.Router Starting stream server on address: /198.18.5.154

Then I found this which makes sense

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org.jupnp.transport.Router Starting multicast receiver on interface: F-Secure VPN Wintun Userspace Tunnel

You have a VPN and UMS is using that to connect to, this would be common on an older version of UMS as it did not check if a network interface was real or virtual.
As you are on V13.10.0 this is probably what is happening. If your VPN software got an update recently this may have confused UMS.

More checks were added to ignore virtual interfaces in newer versions so upgrading should fix it.
Otherwise you can force UMS to use the real physical network interface of your computer.

Posted: **Wed Jun 26, 2024 10:07 pm**

I made a clean installl of the version 14.9.2. The same problem persists.

Posted: **Thu Jun 27, 2024 5:28 am**

For some reason UMS is still picking the VPN network interface over the real one when it shouldn't

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Could not initialize NettyStreamServer: org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelException: Failed to bind to: /198.18.4.22:139

It is using

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net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration checking net7(13), display name: F-Secure VPN Wintun Userspace Tunnel
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration available addresses for net7 is: [/198.18.4.22]
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration non loopback/ipv4 addresses: [/198.18.4.22]
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration checkNetworkInterface(parent = net7, child interfaces = java.net.NetworkInterface$1@2d195ee4)
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration checkNetworkInterface(parent = net7) finished
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration sub address for net7(13) is []
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration checking /198.18.4.22 on net7(13)
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration found net7(13) -> 198.18.4.22

instead of

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net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration checking eth4(15), display name: Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration available addresses for eth4 is: [/192.168.0.10]
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration non loopback/ipv4 addresses: [/192.168.0.10]
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration checkNetworkInterface(parent = eth4, child interfaces = java.net.NetworkInterface$1@21ab988f)
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration checkNetworkInterface(parent = eth4) finished
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration sub address for eth4(15) is []
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration checking /192.168.0.10 on eth4(15)
net.pms.network.configuration.NetworkConfiguration found eth4(15) -> 192.168.0.10

Manually forcing the network interface to "Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller" should fix it.

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You Might be unable to access the web settings if it is broadcasting on the VPN network so you may have to do it on the old Java GUI
(right click the tray icon and chose settings old)

Did this just suddenly happen after it was working normally for a while? Was anything updated on your computer around the time this broke?
If so then I can open an issue on Github to improve auto-detect.

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