Icecast Streaming Media Server

topdog · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 34

I just installed an Icecast RPM I built from the Icecast source RPM, and when I start icecast with service icecast start, it says starting icecast ok
However, when I go to restart, or check it's status it fails.
Checking status gives this:
[root@eagle icecast]# service icecast status
icecast dead but subsys locked
Restarting with service icecast restart just gives
Restarting icecast: failed.
Any idea?

jcr · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject:

Try a simple thing..
In a terminal, as root, type:

topdog · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 34

I don't see any errors. Still the problem persists. I have a user and group called Icecast.
The only thing I see in the error log is:
[2009-08-12 14:10:13] INFO main/main Icecast 2.3.2 server started
[2009-08-12 14:10:13] DBUG yp/yp_recheck_config Updating YP configuration
[2009-08-12 14:10:13] INFO yp/yp_update_thread YP update thread started
[2009-08-12 14:10:13] INFO fserve/fserv_thread_function file serving thread started
[2009-08-12 14:10:13] INFO connection/get_ssl_certificate No SSL capability on any configured ports
[2009-08-12 14:10:14] DBUG slave/_slave_thread checking master stream list
Still when I do service icecast restart it says
shutting down icecast
Failed
service icecast start
Starting icecast: ok.
service icecast status
Icecast dead but subsys locked

topdog · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 34

Forgot to add that when I do service icecast reload, it says:
Reloading Icecast
failed.

jcr · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject:

Wel, as log says icecast is running, the only issue than remains is where PID for server is saved..
as all initscript rely on this, it could mean PID is not savec, so initscript believes icecast is dead, while it is running..
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topdog · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 34

jcr · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:58 pm Post subject:

Check if icecast can access /var/run/icecast/icecast.pid
Sometimes it happens that icecast is not the owner of this, and even not owner of some other file sin the package..
This sounds to me like a bug imported in CentOS from old Fedora 9, which often had this bug..
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topdog · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 34

I've checked some directories.
The /var/run/icecast directory's ownership is set to icecast and permissions are set to 0755
The icecast.pid file is set to the ownership of root and it's permissions are 0644
The icecast Init file is set to 0755 in the /etc/init.d directory, and the script's ownership is set to root.

topdog · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 34

I've done some tests.
When Icecast starts it writes it's pidfile.
it has trouble stopping, restarting, reloading, and checking it's status.
When it tries to stop it fails, when it restarts, as you know it fails.
To me, and from how the init script looks, when it restarts it first stops the server then starts it again.
The second part of the script runs fine, it's able to start it after the restart, but when it attempts to stop it to start it again that's when it fails.
if you'd like I can paste the init sript here.

jcr · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject:

I have the init script, as I provided source RPM..
This runs fine on x86_64 bocxes with Centos & Fedora 32 & 64 bits.

What sounds strange is this funny behaviour with restart..
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topdog · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 34

Sounds odd to me as well.
It stopping, restarting, checking it's status, and reloading all don't work.
The status command reports:
icecast dead but subsys locked.
I attempted removing the icecast file from /var/lock/subsys it still doesn't work right.
So now I've run into an issue because I tried adding mounts and can't reload icecast.
The only way to get it working properly as in to display the fact it is stopped with /etc/init.d/icecast status, is to type killall icecast.

jcr · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:18 am Post subject:

And your icecast error.log does not tell you anything ?
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jcr · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:00 am Post subject:

Sounds really weird then. Looks like killproc function in initscripts does not really kill running instance, or pid file is not created.
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