I have noticed that when ever I startup a standalone version of VI, after shutting it down, it leaves vsldaemon running. If I start it up again, a second instance starts ... and so on.

I noticed this because at one point I had 6 instances of vsldaemon.

SYNSOPOS is also running.

sod it, I'm going to bed.
Hope there is a solution in the morning.

[8-)]

@drew buchan said:

I have noticed that when ever I startup a standalone version of VI, after shutting it down, it leaves vsldaemon running. If I start it up again, a second instance starts ... and so on.

I noticed this because at one point I had 6 instances of vsldaemon.

SYNSOPOS is also running.

Pls hold on. what you describe should never ever happen. we try to find out why this _can_ happen.

Thanks

christian teuscher
development

Okay waiting eagerly.

- I still think the absence of the "loading" splash screen is a clue.

What I most fear is that the last crash has corrupted my Windows installation, and that Windows is not shutting down the vsldaemon process properly (or indeed starting it up properly.)

I really don't want to spend the weekend re-building my PC, with all the inherent hassle of re-registering / re-authorising all my music software.

drew,

can it be you have a nifty firewall installed?

daemon uses TCPport number 6179.

Pls make sure that nothing interferes this port.

this should fix your problem.

thanks

christian teuscher
development

This may or may not be of help as I'm on a mac not a PC, but i had similar problems just after I got up and running. My computer froze and I had to restart while VI had been running. Following the restart VI didn't recognize my files, despite having relinked them in the Directory.

I restarted several times and eventually it all started to work, but not before I had moved my VI Key to a new USB port so that it would recognize the Key. I had been using one directly into the tower, but it still didn't like it, and this caused the program in standalone not to flash up the "scanning licenses" or following this, the "loading please wait".

I now have a powered USB hub holding both my Logic Dongle and my VI key and things seem to be running very smoothly.

As I said, this may or may not be of help, but I hope it is. If nothing else, it's a small show of understanding.... [[;)]]

Hope you get things sorted.

Nick
[:)]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I have the Zonelabs suite of security products installed.
My PC connects view a USB wireless link to a generic router/adsl/firewall box.

My dongle, sits on a non-powered USB2 hub ... but my Steinberg / Yellow Tools dongles have worked fine off this for years.



I will try uninstalling Zonelabs .... but it doesn't seem to explain why it worked for 24 hours, and then stopped.

Will there be technical support this evening, and through the weekend ?

don't worry - we're here [;)]
i'd say you don't need to uninstall your firewall (especially if your machine is connected to the internet) - just open (allow) the port golem mentioned
christian

It worked !!!! Its alive !!

I uninstalled the security suite. Just read your message.
Will experiment over the weekend about re-installing and opening ports.

[:D]