Icecast2 is hanging

[harpermann]

If I run icecast2 overnight, it doesn't stream in the morning even though the processes are running and there are no errors in syslogs. Streaming clients connect but no sound is heard. Restarting icecast2 sometimes fixes it but often need a reboot. We could reboot on the Playa but that drops all the streams and users would need to reconnect.

Sometimes icecast runs all day without fail so not sure what's wrong here.

Do some more testing and see if it's the queue size or whatever. The opensource icecast is used by a lot of folks so we expect it to run continously.

[eastham]

Almost sounds like the codec is crashing... is this on rpi 4 or 5? (rpi 5 software support is still lacking in some areas...)

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If I run icecast2 overnight, it doesn't stream in the morning even though the processes are running and there are no errors in syslogs. Streaming clients connect but no sound is heard. Restarting icecast2 sometimes fixes it but often need a reboot. We could reboot on the Playa but that drops all the streams and users would need to reconnect.

Sometimes icecast runs all day without fail so not sure what's wrong here.

Do some more testing and see if it's the queue size or whatever. The opensource icecast is used by a lot of folks so we expect it to run continously.

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[harpermann]

Ahh, that's a good thought. I'll try a 4 since this is a 5. Any idea how to tell if the codec crashed? Log or something? I'm using -acodec libmp3lame which is alternately said to be unsupported and yet recommended. Could try another but mp4 was what I could get working.

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On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 12:32 PM Paul Eastham @.***> wrote:

Almost sounds like the codec is crashing... is this on rpi 4 or 5? (rpi 5 software support is still lacking in some areas...)

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If I run icecast2 overnight, it doesn't stream in the morning even though the processes are running and there are no errors in syslogs. Streaming clients connect but no sound is heard. Restarting icecast2 sometimes fixes it but often need a reboot. We could reboot on the Playa but that drops all the streams and users would need to reconnect.

Sometimes icecast runs all day without fail so not sure what's wrong here.

Do some more testing and see if it's the queue size or whatever. The opensource icecast is used by a lot of folks so we expect it to run continously.

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[eastham]

Unfortunately I am not at all an expert on this...it might spew a syslog. It is definitely possible for codecs (in other operating systems) to get totally wedged in hardware and you will have absolutely no feedback.

[harpermann]

Agree there! And I suspect hardware as there aren't software changes unless it's some timeout or queue. These tools take a while to fully grok but that's expected, at least with my pea brain.