Roon Server crashes on Lubuntu with Exec format error (ref#NQ1CWE)

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

Hi! What’s not quite right with Roon?

· None of the above quite fits

None of the above quite fits

· None of these quite match

Tell us what's going on

· Roon crashes lubuntu on startup. After installing the latest Roon update, it stopped working. I'm trying to reinstall it, but after Roon Server installation, the computer reboots and starts up with this message: Failed to execute /opt/RoonServer/start.sh: Exec format error

Tell us about your home network

· The network is working well.

[mjw (Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.)]

@Ruslan_Cerepenko

Failed to execute /opt/RoonServer/start.sh: Exec format error

This often implies that the wrong architecture, but could also be a permissions’ problem.

Please execute this and share the output.

uname -m

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

Add images

[mjw (Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.)]

Okay, please try these steps.

cd ~/Downloads
sudo snap remove curl && sudo apt install cifs-utils curl ffmpeg --yes
curl -L https://download.roonlabs.com/builds/roonserver-installer-linuxx64.sh -O
chmod +x roonserver-installer-linuxx64.sh
sudo ./roonserver-installer-linuxx64.sh

Please let me know how this works for you.

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

[mjw (Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.)]

My apologies, the last line should have read:

sudo ./roonserver-installer-linuxx64.sh

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

After a Roon Server

reinstallation, the computer reboots and starts with the same error.

[mjw (Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.)]

Please run the following:

sudo systemctl start roonserver.service

and

journalctl -u roonserver.service --since 18:00

[vadim]

Hi @Ruslan_Cerepenko,

Thanks for the details so far — to move this forward, we need to clarify the exact environment.

Please reply with the output of the following commands:

lsb_release -a
uname -a
uname -m

Also let us know:

• Which Lubuntu version you’re running (e.g. 20.04 / 22.04)
• Whether this system is x86_64 (Intel/AMD) or ARM

An Exec format error usually points to an architecture or binary compatibility issue, so this info is essential before we proceed.

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

Hi @vadim,
Lubuntu 24.04. x86_64 Intel/AMD. ASRock E3C256D2I. Everything worked fine until the last Roon

update.

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

[vadim]

Hello,

I have performed the same testing on our end, and the Roon server installed correctly without any crashes on the same Lubuntu installation.

Please run these commands and paste the full output:

ls -l /opt/RoonServer/start.sh
file /opt/RoonServer/start.sh
head -n 5 /opt/RoonServer/start.sh
cat -A /opt/RoonServer/start.sh | head -n 5

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

With my hardware Roon server stopped working on Lubuntu 24.04. I installed Ubuntu 24.04 and now everything works fine. Thanks for your help guys.

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

After restarting the computer, RoomServer wouldn’t start. The problem reoccurred, after Roon reinstallation the program restarts the computer and Roon doesn’t start.

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

I found a similar problem here:

RoonServer not working from systemd, can connect if start manually

Roon Core Machine Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS Intel i5-8259U (8) @ 3.800GHz 31975MiB Networking Gear & Setup Details wired 1 gig ethernet through Ubiquity switch Connected Audio Devices Raspberry Pi via Ethernet Number of Tracks in Library ~10,000 Description of Issue So I updated my core to 1.8 (936). When I did I lost my connection to the core. Many restarts and frustrations later, I have learned that since that update the systemd daemon is somehow not working. If I stop the service su…

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

After manual startup, this information appears and the computer reboots, Roon does not start after restarting.

[mjw (Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.)]

@Ruslan_Cerepenko

I found a similar problem here:

That’s a different issue, that ultimately need a lock file removing (because Roon was started manually.)

However, your ls -l output shows that Roon was not installed correctly. The owner and group are 1001 when they should be root:root.

Moreover, the 1001 user should be named on the system. Typically, the first user account is 1000.

Make sure Roon server is installed using sudo.

[Ruslan_Cerepenko]

My mistake, I typed “-l” instead of -1.