Package: slimserver Version: 6.3.0-4 Severity: normal Every Sunday morning at 6:30, the slimserver log is rotated, and my player (which is on infinite-loop random-by-album, 750 albums and about 10K songs which should take three weeks to play completely) stops.
This is annoying. When it restarts, it's randomized differently (starting from the album playing when it was killed by the log disappearance), but it means that instead of playing the entire list before randomizing and starting over, I only get about a third of it, and some things get played much more often than they would if it continued as I have it set. I don't think that this is an upstream, since it is an interaction with the debian logrotate facility. In fact, the problem is clearly that slimserver is forced to restart in the script in /etc/logrotate.d/slimserver. On the other hand, maybe it is an upstream. The logfile is not initialized in initSettings() (where it would respond to a sighup, which is what the init script's reload sends (via start-stop-daemon)), but in daemonize(), which is only called once on start (or restart). There isn't a good workaround. Failing to rotate the logs is liable to lead to them growing to unacceptable dimensions; there isn't a good built-in way to signal the daemon that its logfile has been rotated out. The least-dangerous way to stop it from dying every Sunday morning seems to be to disable logging, and then disable log rotation--which means that any *other* problems are liable to be that much harder to diagnose. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages slimserver depends on: ii adduser 3.101 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii flac 1.1.2-5 Free Lossless Audio Codec - comman ii libcache-cache-perl 1.05-2 Managed caches of persistent infor ii libclass-accessor-chained-p 0.01-2 make chained accessors ii libclass-data-inheritable-p 0.04-1 Inheritable, overridable class dat ii libclass-dbi-abstractsearch 0.07-2 Abstract Class::DBI's SQL with SQL ii libclass-dbi-pager-perl 0.08-2 Pager utility for Class::DBI ii libclass-dbi-plugin-perl 0.03-4 Abstract base class for Class::DBI ii libclass-dbi-plugin-retriev 1.04-2 A more complex retrieve_all() meth ii libclass-singleton-perl 1.03-7 perl Class::Singleton - Implementa ii libclass-trigger-perl 0.10-2 Mix-in to add / call inheritable t ii libclass-virtual-perl 0.05-2 Base class for virtual base classe ii libclass-whitehole-perl 0.04-4 Base class to treat unhandled meth ii libcompress-zlib-perl 1.42-2 Perl module for creation and manip ii libdata-page-perl 2.00-3 Help when paging through sets of r ii libdbd-sqlite3-perl 1.13-1.1 Perl DBI driver with a self-contai ii libdbi-perl 1.53-1 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu ii libdbix-contextualfetch-per 1.03-2 Add context aware fetches to DBI ii libfile-slurp-perl 9999.09-1 single call read & write file rout ii libfile-which-perl 0.05-7 Perl module for searching paths fo ii libgd-gd2-perl 1:2.34-1 Perl module wrapper for libgd - gd ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.55-1 A collection of modules that parse ii libima-dbi-perl 0.34-3 Database connection caching and or ii libio-string-perl 1.08-2 Emulate IO::File interface for in- ii libnet-dns-perl 0.59-1 Perform DNS queries from a Perl sc ii libnet-ip-perl 1.25-2 Perl extension for manipulating IP ii libpath-class-perl 0.15-1 Cross-platform path specification ii librpc-xml-perl 0.59-1 Perl module implementation of XML- ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.69-1 Client and server side SOAP implem ii libsql-abstract-limit-perl 2:0.12-1 portable LIMIT emulation ii libsql-abstract-perl 1.21-2 Generate SQL from Perl data struct ii libtemplate-perl 2.14-1 template processing system written ii libtie-regexphash-perl 0.13-1 CPAN's Tie::RegexpHash - Use regul ii libtime-modules-perl 2003.1126-2 Various Perl modules for time/date ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-5 Time and date functions for Perl ii libuniversal-moniker-perl 0.08-4 Nicer names for your Perl modules/ ii libwww-perl 5.805-1 WWW client/server library for Perl ii libxml-namespacesupport-per 1.09-3 Perl module for supporting simple ii libxml-sax-perl 0.14-0.1 Perl module for using and building ii libxml-simple-perl 2.14-5 Perl module for reading and writin ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sox 12.18.2-2 A universal sound sample translato ii subversion 1.4.2dfsg1-2 Advanced version control system ii ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-7 The Bitstream Vera family of free ii vorbis-tools 1.1.1-6 several Ogg Vorbis tools slimserver recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * slimserver/download-firmware: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
