For unfortunate souls who installed a previous version and now has an unresponsive Volumio, you can try the following:
Wait and see if the issue clears itself. While appearing unresponsive, the plugin (more precisely, the underlying YouTube.js library) is actually trying to parse an YT authentication script. It will fail eventually but it could take many, many hours. Once Volumio becomes responsive again, uninstall the plugin immediately. Don’t try to disable and re-enable it or you would have to wait again.
ssh into Volumio and run the following command to delete the youtube2 plugin folder, followed by restarting Volumio:
rm -rf /data/plugins/music_service/youtube2
To install the updated plugin from beta channel:
Uninstall current version.
Enable Plugins Test Mode in http://<volumio address>/dev
Restart Volumio.
Find the YouTube2 plugin in the plugin store. Click the “Details” button under it and choose latest beta version to install.
Thanks @patrickkfkan. I was experiencing the issue and didn’t realize that it was caused by the Youtube plugin until I came here to see the post from @marlon_wolf and your response. Thanks for the quick resolution! I will give this new update a try.
Question: Is it possible in the future that changes on Youtube side could affect the plugin where it locks up Volumio again?
On a serious note, something can probably be done within the underlying YouTube.js library to avoid the same thing happening again. I will discuss with the devs of that library and see if they will do anything about it.
I have a premium account until August 2023. I turn on volumio and after the logo there is only a white screen. I switched main to WiFi and volumio started when wifi was not connected. I entered the password and again the white screen. Obviously something with the account. I’m trying to change to a free plan but it throws an error. Interestingly, the second raspberry device is the same - the same symptoms. Can’t I change my tariff plan or extend it?
Both of my raspberrypis are down (3&4) and they are failing to boot (4 green light blinks). I had the plugin installed on both. I thought it was a card error so I burned a fresh image of volumio on a new card with no luck. Then I tried the same with 2 other new cards, then I also tried writing the cards from another computer- zero luck. The cards work fine if I burn them with raspbian and test, so no issues there. Is there something wrong with the volumio image available for download?
I’ve wiped both cards with a fresh install of Volumio-3.449 and none seem to be booting. I can still SSH in- I didn’t think that was possible?
from raspbian I get this, but I dont think it will help
-- Journal begins at Wed 2023-05-03 01:36:11 BST. --
Jun 29 00:32:27 raspberrypi PackageKit[1267]: uid 1000 is trying to obtain org.f reedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh auth (only_trusted:0)
Jun 29 00:32:27 raspberrypi PackageKit[1267]: uid 1000 obtained auth for org.fre edesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh
Jun 29 00:32:39 raspberrypi PackageKit[1267]: refresh-cache transaction /1_dadaa eda from uid 1000 finished with success after 11976ms
Jun 29 00:32:43 raspberrypi PackageKit[1267]: get-updates transaction /2_cdcacab a from uid 1000 finished with success after 3963ms
Jun 29 00:33:00 raspberrypi sshd[1407]: Accepted password for pi from fe80::7f65 :c9f7:f026:7805%wlan0 port 51854 ssh2
Jun 29 00:33:00 raspberrypi sshd[1407]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened f or user pi(uid=1000) by (uid=0)
Jun 29 00:33:00 raspberrypi systemd-logind[451]: New session 4 of user pi.
Jun 29 00:33:00 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Session 4 of user pi.
Jun 29 00:33:17 raspberrypi sudo[1427]: pi : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pi ; US ER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/journalctl -f
Jun 29 00:33:17 raspberrypi sudo[1427]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened f or user root(uid=0) by pi(uid=1000)
-- Journal begins at Wed 2023-05-03 01:36:11 BST. --
Jun 29 00:32:27 raspberrypi PackageKit[1267]: uid 1000 is trying to obtain org.f reedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh auth (only_trusted:0)
Jun 29 00:32:27 raspberrypi PackageKit[1267]: uid 1000 obtained auth for org.fre edesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh
Jun 29 00:32:39 raspberrypi PackageKit[1267]: refresh-cache transaction /1_dadaa eda from uid 1000 finished with success after 11976ms
Jun 29 00:32:43 raspberrypi PackageKit[1267]: get-updates transaction /2_cdcacab a from uid 1000 finished with success after 3963ms
Jun 29 00:33:00 raspberrypi sshd[1407]: Accepted password for pi from fe80::7f65 :c9f7:f026:7805%wlan0 port 51854 ssh2
Jun 29 00:33:00 raspberrypi sshd[1407]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened f or user pi(uid=1000) by (uid=0)
Jun 29 00:33:00 raspberrypi systemd-logind[451]: New session 4 of user pi.
Jun 29 00:33:00 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Session 4 of user pi.
Jun 29 00:33:17 raspberrypi sudo[1427]: pi : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pi ; US ER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/journalctl -f
Jun 29 00:33:17 raspberrypi sudo[1427]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened f or user root(uid=0) by pi(uid=1000)
^ this is from a card that previously wouldnt boot volumio that I reimaged with raspbian
I updated the system to V3.512. And updated YouTube 2 only. I made the update on two Pi4 . And both went to the white screen after the reboot. I didn’t have time to update anything else.
Thanks. The new version is working.
