Icecast Streaming Media Server

[liteFun]

Friend upgraded his server from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9, and then started mysterious problem.
Icecast binds to some random port, not the specified 8000 or what ever in config has.
I can only guess that is something to do with Fedora 9, but what, that's a big mystery.
Friend has tried installing Icecast 2.3.1 with yum (I guess, or some other tool that installs those ready made packets) and compiling 2.3.2 by hand. No success. Icecast keeps on binding to mysterious ports, or not at all.
Does somebody have some testbed with Fedora 9 to resolve this problem?

[karlH]

Someone else reported this but said 2.3.2 worked fine. I'll have access to a fedora 9 over the weekend to try it out but contact me if you want to try something sooner.

karl.

[liteFun]

I installed Fedora 9 on my laptop, just to test Icecast (2.3.2), and it seems to work fine. I have to check my NAT settings to be 100% sure.
Maybe key for that problem that friend has, is upgrading Fedora 8 to Fedora 9?
Neither 2.3.1 or 2.3.2 working on his system properly.

I just after Fedora 9 installed and booted, used elinks to open icecast.org and grabbed tarball and then configured, got something about XSLT so then I used "yum install libxslt*" and again ./configure, then make all, make install and edited icecast.xml, started icecast and tried links localhost:8000/ and it showed status.xsl.
So, for pure Fedora 9 install all seems to work fine.

Oh btw, is inet_aton used for IPv6? I was wondering that, I have always previously used --enable-ipv6 as some other software require that for configuring before compiling, this time I used only plain ./configure.

[karlH]

hmm, not sure why an upgrade mechanism would cause problems, but it's possible if say the compiler structured the args differently. This is assuming that the icecast package didn't get updated.

inet_aton is not for IPv6 but we do use it if the IPv6 api is not available.

karl.

[liteFun]

One possibly reason could be that stupid SELinux-thing. I don't remember what software I tried to compile, but it didn't start to run until SELinux was fully disabled. I guess friend has disabled that too.

I have to re-install everything to my laptop, then I will try installing Fedora 8 and install Icecast from package, then upgrade to Fedora 9 and try if Icecast works or not. If it works, I don't know how to exactly reproduce that error.

[karlH]

you should have an se linux report if that is the issue.

karl.

[liteFun]

Friend got Icecast working, don't know what was really the problem.