[Ample-devel] Ample 0.5.5 on RH7.3...

[Andy P. <and...@fr...>]

Hi David,

Great to see Ample is under development again, after your various woes!

I just downloaded and built 0.5.5 on my RH7.3 box (my client is now
running 8.0 but I don't want to upgrade my server just yet for a few
reasons, so 7.3 it is). It compiles fine. I configured it for tcp
wrappers and syslogging.

Dropped it in place of the old version (I was on 0.5.2 until now, it
worked well for me). I didn't change the config file as I saw no reason
to add filters or authentication to my setup, I'm firewalled and
tcp-wrappered. I run ample out of xinetd and have that working just
fine.

Trying to connect back to the box with Galeon and XMMS - no response.
In the syslog I saw this:

Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6759]: Ample/0.5.5 started 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6753]: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6753]: BitRate is 128, FileLength is
3987584 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6753]: TPF is 0.026122 and BPF is
417.959184, we have 38.281250 frames in one second 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6753]: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6753]: BitRate is 128, FileLength is
5081675 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6753]: TPF is 0.026122 and BPF is
417.959184, we have 38.281250 frames in one second 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6753]: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6756]: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6759]: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6762]: Ample/0.5.5 started 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6765]: Ample/0.5.5 started 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6753]: BitRate is 112, FileLength is
3842322 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6756]: BitRate is 128, FileLength is
3987584 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6759]: BitRate is 128, FileLength is
3987584 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6762]: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6765]: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6768]: Ample/0.5.5 started 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6753]: TPF is 0.026122 and BPF is
365.714286, we have 38.281250 frames in one second 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6756]: TPF is 0.026122 and BPF is
417.959184, we have 38.281250 frames in one second 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6759]: TPF is 0.026122 and BPF is
417.959184, we have 38.281250 frames in one second 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6762]: BitRate is 128, FileLength is
3987584 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6765]: BitRate is 128, FileLength is
3987584 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6768]: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6753]: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6771]: Ample/0.5.5 started 
Oct 27 17:44:02 phoenix ample[6756]: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
[...]
Oct 27 17:45:52 phoenix ample[6856]: TPF is 0.026122 and BPF is
626.938776, we have 38.281250 frames in one second 
Oct 27 17:45:52 phoenix ample[6856]: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Oct 27 17:45:52 phoenix ample[6856]: BitRate is 128, FileLength is
4626099 
Oct 27 17:45:52 phoenix ample[6856]: TPF is 0.026122 and BPF is
417.959184, we have 38.281250 frames in one second 
Oct 27 17:45:52 phoenix ample[6856]: died - failed to bind tcp socket ,
errno: Address already in use

I was only trying to connect once with XMMS when this happened. It looks
as if multiple copies get spawned and then race for the socket. I'm not
overly keen on this stuff getting spewed into syslog to be honest - with
0.5.2 the logging was far less verbose.

Either way, this doesn't look good for me at the moment, so I've
reverted to 0.5.2 for now. Any ideas?

(I've just joined the ample-devel mailing list, but it looks dormant
since January... copied there anyway).

Best wishes
Andy

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Andy Piper - Farnborough, Hampshire (UK)
and...@fr...
http://www.andypiper.co.uk/