On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 11:21 -0500, Tim Camp wrote:
> Recently on a machine that has been in service for several years with
> no problems
> we have had rdairplay freeze when firing the first cart in a stop
> set. (coming off of satellite).
> The syslog shows the cart starting, but the funny thing is the
> sending now and next pad info doesn't happen until sometimes ten
> minutes later. (usually the very next event in the log)
> It never shows playout completed.
> 
> During that period rdairplay is frozen.
> 
> The rest of the stopset never plays and it sometimes requires a
> reboot to get things going again. Sometimes it just sits until the
> next timed event, then syslog shows it continuing at that point.
> 
> The rlm for now and next is a filewrite_rlm which writes to a windows
> share that is loaded through fstab on boot. 
> 
> Since this just started recently and there was a change to that
> windows machine I'm wondering if this has some correlation.
> 
> Could the inability to write to the file because of some issue cause
> rdairplay to freak?
> 
> This doesn't happen all the time, but always on the first cart to be
> fired coming out of satellite programming.

Almost certainly a problem with the Windows share. I've often seen
Windows put a remote CIFS mount to 'sleep' after a period of
inactivity; when in that state, first access to it can entail a lengthy
delay while it 'wakes up'.

One effective workaround is a cron job set to run (say) every five
minutes that touch(1)-es a file on that remote mount.

Cheers!


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