darkice crashing

[zapman987]

DarkIce crashed at like 2am last night. Crashes on startup now. HELP!!!

darkice.service - LSB: Live audio streamer
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/darkice; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Mon 2019-04-29 06:13:34 EDT; 10s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 1258 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/darkice stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS
Process: 1296 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/darkice start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCE
CGroup: /system.slice/darkice.service

Apr 29 06:13:34 pi2 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Live audio streamer...
Apr 29 06:13:34 pi2 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Live audio streamer.
yoder@pi2:~/op25/op25/gr-op25_repeater/apps $ sudo service darkice status● darkice.service - LSB: Live audio streamer
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/darkice; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Mon 2019-04-29 06:13:34 EDT; 15s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 1258 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/darkice stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS
Process: 1296 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/darkice start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCE
CGroup: /system.slice/darkice.service

Apr 29 16:46:31 pi2 darkice[25664]: Copyright (c) 2000-2007, Tyrell Hungary, Tyrell Hungary Corporation
Apr 29 16:46:31 pi2 darkice[25664]: Copyright (c) 2008-2013, Akos Maroy and Rafael Diniz
Apr 29 16:46:31 pi2 darkice[25664]: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
Apr 29 16:46:31 pi2 darkice[25664]: under the terms of The GNU General Public License version 3 or
Apr 29 16:46:31 pi2 darkice[25664]: any later version.
Apr 29 16:46:31 pi2 darkice[25664]: Using config file: /etc/darkice-stream0.cfg
Apr 29 16:46:31 pi2 darkice[25664]: Using ALSA DSP input device: loop0
Apr 29 16:46:31 pi2 darkice[25664]: Using POSIX real-time scheduling, priority 4
Apr 29 16:46:32 pi2 darkice[25664]: DarkIce: IceCast2.cpp:261: Icecast2 - Unexpected response from server [0]
Apr 29 16:46:32 pi2 systemd[1]: darkice-stream0.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Apr 29 16:46:32 pi2 systemd[1]: darkice-stream0.service: Unit entered failed state.
Apr 29 16:46:32 pi2 systemd[1]: darkice-stream0.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 29 16:46:37 pi2 systemd[1]: darkice-stream0.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Apr 29 16:46:37 pi2 systemd[1]: Stopped darkice-stream0.

 

[boatbod]

As an educated guess, the problem appears to be on the other end:

Apr 29 16:46:32 pi2 darkice[25664]: DarkIce: IceCast2.cpp:261: Icecast2 - Unexpected response from server [0]

 

[zapman987]

Theres no icecast installed though. Ive even tried installing it and it doesnt fix the issue.

 

[zapman987]

Looking through, this appears to be on BC's side. Ive submitted a ticket.

 

[boatbod]

Theres no icecast installed though. Ive even tried installing it and it doesnt fix the issue.

Looking through, this appears to be on BC's side. Ive submitted a ticket.

Icecast2 is the protocol, not an application and as such it is part of the darkice installation. The error I highlighted last night suggests something unexpected is being reported by the remote server. I think you best course of action is indeed to submit a trouble ticket and see what transpires once the server admin takes a look. Is there anything in the darkice syslog that might give you more clues?

 

[zapman987]

Ah ok that makes more sense.

BC admins got back, they think its an ISP issue somewhere, so hunting that down, which makes sense since it started middle of night. Im also able to replicate it on multiple Pi's now.

Where can said syslog be found? Looked all over, only docs I can find is to lookup under journalctl with some grepping.

 

[boatbod]

It depends on the version of Linux... try looking in /var/log

 

[zapman987]

Got this solved as a port being blocked. Still hunting where, but thats my expertise (firewalls). Thanks for looking at this!

 

[zapman987]

So new problem, I can get no audio out of darkice. The server at the far end thinks its getting data, but no audio comes across. Even using aplay to test with audio fails. I know this is a problem with either my loop or darkice. OP25 plays just fine locally.

Boatbod, I looked for logs in /var/log, dont see anything for darkice. journalctl outputs some but Ive no idea where its getting from.

 

[boatbod]

So new problem, I can get no audio out of darkice. The server at the far end thinks its getting data, but no audio comes across. Even using aplay to test with audio fails. I know this is a problem with either my loop or darkice. OP25 plays just fine locally.

Boatbod, I looked for logs in /var/log, dont see anything for darkice. journalctl outputs some but Ive no idea where its getting from.

Darkice writes to /var/log/syslog on my Mint system