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 _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
