Help starting with Linux Desktop

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I’m having some trouble getting started, running on Ubuntu 16.04.

The first issue was skills. Neither the github README nor Mycroft for Linux mentioned calling msm/msm default. I found that in the forums. That allowed me to pair.

So now it’s paired. msm/msm list tells me I have 27 skills installed. I speak, I hear a beep and the CLI says this:

Log Output: 0-18 of 18
================================================================================================================================= mycroft-core 18.2.0 ===
09:53:14.925 - mycroft.messagebus.client.ws:on_open:58 - INFO - Connected
09:53:14.937 - mycroft.skills.core:load_skill:106 - INFO - ATTEMPTING TO LOAD SKILL: skill-pairing with ID -5844316681041254434
09:53:14.944 - mycroft.skills.core:load_skill:124 - INFO - Loaded skill-pairing
ALSA lib pcm.c:2266:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2266:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2266:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:867:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
09:53:16.129 - mycroft.client.speech.listener:create_wake_word_recognizer:235 - INFO - creating wake word engine
09:53:16.131 - mycroft.client.speech.hotword_factory:create_hotword:268 - INFO - creating hey mycroft
09:53:16.168 - mycroft.client.speech.listener:create_wakeup_recognizer:253 - INFO - creating stand up word engine
09:53:16.169 - mycroft.client.speech.hotword_factory:create_hotword:268 - INFO - creating wake up
09:53:16.870 - mycroft.messagebus.client.ws:on_open:58 - INFO - Connected
09:53:38.277 - main:handle_record_begin:36 - INFO - Begin Recording…
09:53:39.538 - main:handle_record_end:41 - INFO - End Recording…
09:53:39.546 - mycroft.session:get:76 - INFO - New Session Start: 3d4a0f50-844d-4bec-9516-b210b742b1d7
09:53:39.546 - main:handle_wakeword:57 - INFO - Wakeword Detected: hey mycroft
09:53:40.662 - main:handle_utterance:62 - INFO - Utterance: [u’tell me a joke’]
^— NEWEST —^

And Mycroft never answers :frowning:

What else am I missing?
Thanks.

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Well I debugged skill loading and found that if I changed my config to

“auto_update”: false,

it loads the skills previously downloaded by msm/msm default.

I can’t tell if this is a coding error or I’m not understanding the intent. Perhaps msm/msm default is old news and it mycroft auto-downloads? But then how is it told what to download? I saw the priority list that loaded pairing…

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Hi there @tlc, we recently had a backend outage which may have caused the symptoms you’ve been experiencing here. Are you able to ./start-mycroft debug again and see how you go?

Kind regards, Kathy

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Hi,
It’s running, thanks.

The problem was not an outage. The problem is that some bits of mycroft are not proxy friendly. Some details are here: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/issues/1472

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Kathy,
This outage seems to still be happening as seen from here in the UK (still at 17:30 GMT)