Good advice. This was a fresh install from the appliance DVD.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 16, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Gregg Wonderly <[email protected]> wrote: > > Blind updates on production machines without validation on another machine > and without backups is quite problematic. > > Backups with ZFS snapshots might also be something to look into as a simple, > zero impact backup mechanism to help you manage the impact of updates. > > Gregg > >> On Dec 16, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Lorne Tyndale <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Based on what you've described, I suspect that if you were running Jack >> it would work. >> >> I agree that on a Rivendell appliance OS upgrades in general should be >> avoided. After all the Rivendell machine shouldn't be on the internet >> in the first place but instead on a private LAN where the usual thought >> of "update to avoid security holes" doesn't necessarily apply. >> >>> >>> I think you are misunderstanding what was happening. >>> >>> >>> If the card is set at 48000 with the new drivers, RD cannot "see" the card >>> at all. It is reported as not being installed by RD Admin. >>> >>> >>> If rdalsaconfig is set to 44.1 and RD is restarted, the card is seen as >>> installed by RD, but on playback the audio becomes noisy and corrupted. >>> >>> >>> If you go into rdalsaconfig, change the sample rate to 48000 and restart >>> the daemons, the audio card is no longer reported as installed. >>> >>> >>> The card and the machine worked properly under 48000 when the appliance was >>> initially installed. Something that gets updated during the OS update >>> process is changed and causes this issue with my machine. >>> >>> >>> It is simply going to receive GPI closures and play back station ID's, so I >>> am not really wanting to do much with this unit other than take the path of >>> least resistance to get it to function. If it were one of our playout >>> machines, that would be a different story. >>> >>> >>> Steve Varholy >>> President and General Manager >>> >>> [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] >>> >>> >>> The Historic Barringer Building >>> >>> 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 >>> >>> Columbia, South Carolina 29201 >>> >>> Office: (803) 753-7260 x 251 >>> >>> Direct: (803) 404-5535 >>> >>> Cell: (703) 585-2101 >>> >>> >>> A Service of the Independent Media Foundation >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: John Stanley <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 2:15:36 PM >>> To: Steve Varholy >>> Cc: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [RDD] Appliance Issue >>> >>>> On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 18:32 +0000, Steve Varholy wrote: >>>> >>>> Hadn't gotten a chance to posting. >>>> >>>> >>>> The answer is a qualified yes. Paravel gave me a call because they >>>> were curious to see whether they had an issue as well. >>>> >>>> >>>> The CENTOS upgrade also updates the driver on my particular machine. >>>> Where the onboard soundcard driver in the original appliance is happy >>>> at 48000, the card under the upgraded driver only likes to be run at >>>> 44.1 and the resulting audio is terrible. >>>> >>>> >>>> I have a new card arriving tomorrow. The thought is that it will >>>> resolve the issue. >>> >>> It's not that it is happy...Alsa defaults to 48kHz in RHEL/CentOS. What >>> this does is change the default rate. If you look in the RD logs you >>> will or should see the error where this happens. You also need to make >>> sure RD is set at 44100kHz also in the Admim settings. >>> >>> >>> Could you try this before going further: >>> >>> ### put in /root/.asoundrc >>> >>> pcm.!default { >>> type rate >>> slave { >>> pcm "plughw:0,0" >>> rate 44100 >>> } >>> }<hr>_______________________________________________ >>> Rivendell-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
