Our main on-air system, and its soon-to-be installed replacement works fine, but on our backup system, I can create and even overwrite cart cuts but can not delete them. The error I get from "Unable to delete audio!" dialog popup from rdlibrary when I do.
Same result if I have the backup system "connected" to the mysql database on the onair machine or the "backup" copy that is on it locally. (I don't know how to get the master/slave thing on mysql working right now so have been just using the backup and restore function in rdadmin to generate the local copy on the backup server). The default user that it is logging in as is the same user "user" that is on the main system, so I'd assume that user has the rights to perform deletions. Also as logged in as that user in shell, I can delete carts from that directory just fine. Both the main system is running rivendell 2.5.0 where as the backup is on 2.5.1, both as compiled by the folks maintaining the debian packages on Tryphon. The main is running debian Squeeze (32-bit) and the backup is running debian Wheezy (64-bit). I want to get this fixed so that I can put the backup on the air so to swap in a new, fully upgraded system for "ONAIR" that is mostly ready-to-go, but I want to play it safe anyway. ======================== Other than a couple of other issues reported on this forum earlier, I've been super happy with Rivendell. I've had a radio station running on it for about a year now. Rivendell seems to have a good mix of features common with other leading commercial systems out there, but because it runs on Linux with all of it's backend tools (like Jack-audio, really good software RAID, great priority scheduling of cpu-time and other resources, real multi-user capability, real LAMP stack, and overall design friendly for scripting, etc.), I've been able to do things on a single computer in a very clean fashion would take several computers and other audio devices tied together in a "multiple points of failure" mode with those other common commercial systems. Eventually I plan on writing a little blog/article about my experiences and configuration that should be helpful to others but want to learn a little more about Rivendell and tweak my setup a little more before I do. I currently have the core system working, with Jack audio on a Presounus 1818VSL USB multichannel sound device, running three darkice streams (Transmitter, Public, Preview/Production) from Jack with some processing done by "jack-rack" inserted in the public stream. I have RDAIRPLAY doing all kinds of routing changes and other things via macro carts fired from either a log, or "hot buttons" (that sometimes call external shell scripts), I have RDCATCH grabbing and importing various elements on a daily basis. Then I have all this fully remote accessible via both VNC and remote X (usually tunneled through SSH) for our operators to use on their Windows desktops and smart-phones. We play locally stored music interrupted by live remotes and sporting events (with cue, talkback, and mix-minus foldback) from either Skype, or a Telos-one CODEC, or a "Plain Old Telephone" (POTS) interfaced to the Presounus sound device (Can I use "LiveWire" on the Telos CODEC directly to the computer?). We rebroadcast our college games (with their permission) via their webcast that has 25/35hz subaudible automation tones (currently using a borrowed hardware tone decoder, does anyone know of a good linux/Jack-compatible software solution? The NCH-audio + Wine + Alsa_In solution seems too messy to me) Did I mention this was all on one computer and I haven't even needed to install a traditional broadcast audio console yet? My main remaining task is to get three rivendell systems working in a hot-backup/fail-over + cold-standby arrangement where two systems are typically powered on at a time (main and backup-server), and this backup-server gets constantly updated from the main system via rsync (have that working now), and have the database configured for master/slave redundancy (not working yet) in a way where the backup can run fully stand-alone with the master on-air system down. Then I want a third computer (already have it running) that would normally be powered off, but can be powered on and then synced from the "backup-server" so that it could become a new "ONAIR" machine. (our "backup-server" is a "headless" thing that is located in an awkward location and normally used for other purposes so not to be appropriate as a permanent replacement for "ONAIR"). Our "ONAIR" machines come from a pile of older Pentium-4 "semi-server class" machines that were discarded and given to us by an associate company. So our plan is to simply "run them into the ground" on our radio station, but with the security of having a good system of fail-overs and backup computers to deal with when they do fail. Anyway, enough babbling for now. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot and/or fix my current issue as well as how to move forward with my eventual goals would be appreciated. James Stewart Pace Audio Services Albuquerque, NM USA and KYRN-FM Radio (Socorro, NM USA) _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
