Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hello, Karl.
I'm reporting a new problem to you.

Icecast 2.3.1-trunc_20080122
on FreeBSD 6.2

Server is operate for up to 1000 on-line clients.
After some time, Icecast stop responding (for browser and for streaming).
When I use command "netstat -na", I see too much lines like:
tcp4 0 0 X.X.X.X.80 X.X.X.X.50332 CLOSE_WAIT

When I use command "sockstat", I see so that connections created by icecast-server:
nobody icecast 644 1035tcp4 X.X.X.X:80 X.X.X.X:50332

And I cant't restart Icecast by startup script:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/icecast2 restart

Only full computer restart help for this.

But FreeBSD system is looks like good (SSH working, no other errors detected).

I hope, you fix that problem.
I'm ready to help what I can.

[karlH]

That sounds like a hang of one of the threads. Which one is hard to say but if it is blocking on something then sockets may not be freed and a normal shutdown may not work (although a kill -9 should be ok).

The best thing you can do is build the latest tarball/svn codebase, build icecast withe make debug, setup the environment so that a core file can be produced (kill -SEGV can be used to check that) by removing any use of chroot/chown, running the server as you have done and when it fails again do a kill -SEGV to get the core file. Then send me the backtrace from that core file.

karl.