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CRIS5101

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Post Wed Jul 22, 2026 1:30 pm

Cannot connect to the server

I have a 25“ iMac M1 running macOS Tahoe 26.5.2. After the initial installation of Servio, everything works fine. I shut down the computer, and when I open it and Servio, I get this message: ”Cannot Connect to the server, it doesn't seem to be running..."
I’ve looked into it but haven’t found a solution. What should I do? Thanks in advance for your help.
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atc98092

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Post Wed Jul 22, 2026 9:50 pm

Re: Cannot connect to the server

The first thing to check is if the Serviio service is running. I can't tell you how to do that on a Mac. If the service is running, then you likely have a firewall issue. I'm assuming the MacOS has a default firewall like Windows does. Certain ports have to be open for Serviio to be visible on your network devices.
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fmdebrouwer

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Post Mon Aug 31, 2026 9:11 am

Re: Cannot connect to the server

I have the same issue with the 2.5 version and had to roll back to version 2.4 on MacOS 15.7.9 / java version "1.8.0_503"

The Serviio version 2.5 installer does not install the library file ' /Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/./JavaNativeFoundation'.
This version seems depending on this particular file, which the version 2.4 and earlier do not.
Further investigation shows that the file seems to exist, however the symlink I found points nowhere on my MacOS.

This might be an indication of the cause of this problem.

Please investigate.


\\

Some details of my investigation:
1) search the name in the system directory and found a symlink...
imac-fred:~ fred$ find /System /Library -name JavaNativeFoundation -exec ls -ld {} \; 2>/dev/null
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 37 Aug 1 18:31 /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaNativeFoundation.framework/JavaNativeFoundation -> Versions/Current/JavaNativeFoundation

2) search in the "Versions" subdir :: no "JavaNativeFoundation" foud...
imac-fred:~ fred$ find /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaNativeFoundation.framework/Versions/
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaNativeFoundation.framework/Versions/
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaNativeFoundation.framework/Versions/A
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaNativeFoundation.framework/Versions/A/_CodeSignature
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaNativeFoundation.framework/Versions/A/_CodeSignature/CodeResources
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaNativeFoundation.framework/Versions/A/Resources
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaNativeFoundation.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Info.plist
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaNativeFoundation.framework/Versions/A/Resources/version.plist
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaNativeFoundation.framework/Versions/Current

3) This is the log:
2026-05-25T07:29:43,217 ERROR [MediaServer] An unexpected error occurred. Ending the application. Message: /Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/libosx.dylib: dlopen(/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/libosx.dylib, 0x0001): Library not loaded: '@rpath/JavaNativeFoundation'
Referenced from: '/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/libosx.dylib'
Reason: tried: '/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/./JavaNativeFoundation' (no such file), '/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/./JavaNativeFoundation' (no such file), '/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/server/./JavaNativeFoundation' (no such file), '/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/server/../JavaNativeFoundation' (no such file), '/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/bin/./JavaNativeFoundation' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/JavaNativeFoundation' (no such file), '/usr/lib/JavaNativeFoundation' (no such file)
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/libosx.dylib: dlopen(/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/libosx.dylib, 0x0001): Library not loaded: '@rpath/JavaNativeFoundation'
Referenced from: '/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/libosx.dylib'
Reason: tried: '/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/./JavaNativeFoundation' (no such file), '/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/./JavaNativeFoundation' (no such file), '/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/server/./JavaNativeFoundation' (no such file), '/Library/Application Support/Serviio/jre/lib/server/../JavaNativeFoundation' (no such file), '/Library/Application

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