Squeezebox server fails to start on new laptop runnning ubuntu 18.04

log messages are pretty useless

Just

2018-06-03 16:33:53 Logitech Media Server died. Restarting.
2018-06-03 16:33:58 Logitech Media Server died. Restarting.
2018-06-03 16:34:03 Logitech Media Server died. Restarting.

could this be a perl version thing? If so what version do i need?

I installed it from

logitechmediaserver_7.7.6_all.deb