Have you looked in dmesg when rdairplay crashes? Usually the Linux kernel
will log crashes there.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote:

>
> I have just looked at 14 Rivendell systems which I built and are currently
> running a various stations. On two of them, rdairplay will crash
> inexplicably while playing an audio file, leaving no trace in any log.
>
> On one of the machines, I tried upgrading to a more recent Rivendell
> version, but that didn't help. I then took the hard drive and transferred
> it into a different machine, effectively replacing all the hardware but
> that drive; that didn't help, either.
>
> The other 12 machines don't have the problem; so, the question is: what do
> the two crashers have in common? The answer seems to be that both are
> running Rivendell under Debian 7 (Linux kernel 3.2.0) with ALSA. They are
> the only ones of the 14 for which that is the case; six machines run Debian
> 6 (Linux kernel 2.6.32); two run CentOS 6 (also Linux kernel 2.6.32); two
> are 2007-vintage machines running OpenSUSE 10.2 and ancient Rivendell
> versions; and the remaining two machines run Debian 7, but with ASI cards
> and the asihpi driver. None of these other machines have experienced
> rdairplay crashes.
>
> I had thought this might be a 32-bit problem, but it turns out that one of
> the two crashers is running a 64-bit OS. So it seems to be the combination
> of Debian 7 and ALSA that s troublesome.
>
> I am going to try rebuilding one of the two crashers with CentOS 6 and see
> if the problem goes away. I've had a CentOS 6 machine running ALSA in Maine
> for two years with no crashes.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Rob
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