Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-24 Thread Cowboy
On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:22:35 -0400 Cowboy wrote: > And if THAT fails, we need to start comparing what's different > between here and there in some detail. Some of my research is showing that this rears it's ugly head from time to time on RHEL going all the way back into RHEL-4. -- Cowboy ___

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-24 Thread Cowboy
On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:21:40 -0400 Fred Gleason wrote: > On Jun 24, 2016, at 07:32, Cowboy wrote: > > > There's still a possibility that THAT disk may not exhibit the > > problem on the hardware available to Fred's location. > > Nor does it. No sign of ‘gam_server’ running when I boot it at a

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-24 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
I had a cloned hard drive for our main airplay in a drawer from 6 months ago so installed it and only updated rivendell. It works great. That does not solve the overall issue here but will keep us on the air. If you can't find a good work around, I will start rebuilding all the clients with 6.7 but

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-24 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 24, 2016, at 07:32, Cowboy wrote: > There's still a possibility that THAT disk may not exhibit the > problem on the hardware available to Fred's location. Nor does it. No sign of ‘gam_server’ running when I boot it at all. In fact, I’ve not been able to goose this one on *any* of the s

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-24 Thread Wayne Merricks
If you're stuck, Debian/Ubuntu and others are a quick install with the tryphon repos: sudo apt-get install rivendell rivendell-server Obviously configuring and mounting NFS shares can take a bit longer. If you're going Ubuntu start with Ubuntu Server and stick to xfce or lxde. On 24/06/16 1

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-24 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
OK. I am praying that Fred and/or others find a solution fast but thinking of building an alternate machine to use in place of our main airplay. It ran fine all night and when the operator came in this morning and began a live show it all crashed. He rebooted and it said it was missing daemons. On

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-24 Thread Cowboy
On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 18:27:40 -0500 Tom Van Gorkom wrote: > I hate to admit that I didn't even notice that it updated to the new > version when I applied all the hundreds of updates in waiting for the > next riv version. Still learning... I've said time and time again, that I don't generally ap

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-24 Thread Cowboy
On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 01:04:52 + (UTC) John Anderson wrote: > Okay, deep down you are a real sickie, Curt... Yes, but you already knew that. ;) > So far, this seems a > bit more elusive...it doesn't appear to be specifically related to > Rivendell, I believe it isn't, at all. The instal

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
I hate to admit that I didn't even notice that it updated to the new version when I applied all the hundreds of updates in waiting for the next riv version. Still learning... I would think that our processors would be plenty adequate but since riv is single theaded I guess if gam_server and riv a

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread Cowboy
On Thursday 23 June 2016 03:36:48 pm Tom Van Gorkom wrote: > If this helps narrow it down, the problem only appears on the clients, not > servers, and not on a stand alone that I just set up. Remembering what where who when why Rivendell "supports" CentOS ( RHEL ) but RH does not support

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
If this helps narrow it down, the problem only appears on the clients, not servers, and not on a stand alone that I just set up. Tom Van Gorkom Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM Office: 956-380-8150 Cell: 865-803-7427 Rio Grande Bible Institute 4300 S US Hwy 281 Edinburg, TX 78539

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 23, 2016, at 13:41, drew Roberts wrote: > Asking out of ignorance here but someone may not be as deeply ignorant... > > Is it somehow related to selinux? Always a good question to ask when troubleshooting weirdness on a RHEL system! :) But in this case: I don’t think so. I’m seeing i

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread drew Roberts
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Cowboy wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:37:07 -0400 > Fred Gleason wrote: > > > Thus, I suspect a misbehaving component elsewhere in the GUI > > ecosystem that is causing that server to be run incorrectly. The > > hunt continues… > > It's a file alteration mon

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread Cowboy
On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:37:07 -0400 Fred Gleason wrote: > Thus, I suspect a misbehaving component elsewhere in the GUI > ecosystem that is causing that server to be run incorrectly. The > hunt continues… It's a file alteration monitoring system. Why we might need it, I know not. In any case

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
The servers only had the second line showing that it wasn't running. Tom Van Gorkom Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM Office: 956-380-8150 Cell: 865-803-7427 Rio Grande Bible Institute 4300 S US Hwy 281 Edinburg, TX 78539 On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Tom Van Gorkom wrote: >

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
Try again... the tab sent the last message that was incomplete... On airplay1 which was rebooted a few hours ago: 2965 ? S27:28 /usr/libexec/gam_server 4425 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep gam_server The others varied with different PIDs, R or D instead of S, different times, but otherwise the sam

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 23, 2016, at 11:15, Fred Gleason wrote: > Confirmed here. This appears to be a regression introduced in CentOS 6.8. > Investigating… The plot thickens… The ‘gamin’ package (whence the ‘gam_server’ component comes) was not changed as part of the 6.8 point update. In fact, that packag

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
Thank you. Glad it's not just my set-up but this is not good. I will wait for your suggestions to fix it. Tom Van Gorkom Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM Office: 956-380-8150 Cell: 865-803-7427 Rio Grande Bible Institute 4300 S US Hwy 281 Edinburg, TX 78539 On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 a

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread drew Roberts
Tom, On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Tom Van Gorkom wrote: > I read up what I could find on this before writing the email and all the > info is old. The bug was reported over 10 years ago and the fixes are old. > I hesitate to apply them and I haven't been able to figure out yet how to > chan

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 23, 2016, at 10:57, Tom Van Gorkom wrote: > This is a recent event for us- in the last couple weeks since updating > everything, but it does not show up on the servers that also run centos 6.7 > with Gnome. I'm at a loss as to what to do. I can't have it freezing > Airplay. A reboot se

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-23 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
I read up what I could find on this before writing the email and all the info is old. The bug was reported over 10 years ago and the fixes are old. I hesitate to apply them and I haven't been able to figure out yet how to change the polling. Several sites suggest fsset but that is not a legit comma

Re: [RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-22 Thread drew Roberts
A quick google search... On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Tom Van Gorkom wrote: > Rivendell 2.14.1 on CentOS 6.7, Client server setup, quad core 3 GHz AMD > processor, 8GB RAM > > Last week a workstation began freezing intermittently when editing clocks. > Top showed a load average of 1.5 at th

[RDD] RDAirplay froze, gam_server?

2016-06-22 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
Rivendell 2.14.1 on CentOS 6.7, Client server setup, quad core 3 GHz AMD processor, 8GB RAM Last week a workstation began freezing intermittently when editing clocks. Top showed a load average of 1.5 at the time and some % of wait. The top processes running were gam_server and Xorg with rd aps bou