Housebound rearranging and getting rid of clutter and setting up a symphony of songs varying the tempo, genres and eras the way I normally would!
Who may be coming or have already gone through this mix you ask, well artist like 2 Live Crew, Bobby Womack, Jimi Hendrix, Kendrick Lamar, Ella Mai, Gunna, Cecile, Olivia Rodrigo, Huey Lewis and the News, The Dazz Band and many more of all those and other genres.
Doing OS security updates of the W2019 application server that’s the source where I keep music and encode the streams as well as the streaming Linux Fedora relay server where I share the IceCast and ShoutCast systems.
Will be down and then right back up in no time!
I was doing system maintenance of updating my System OS security patches of the system I source the music from earlier today and decided to point the source to the original stream relay server I had upgraded to the most recent release of Fedora yesterday jumping several OS versions. This way I could stay updated on the latest security updates.
I tried going from Fedora to Rocky Linux so I wouldn’t have to keep making these OS updates to keep up with security patches. Fedora is bleeding edge and updates to a new OS version every 6 months and maintains updates for only 3 versions so about 1.5 years, that goes quickly. Then its time to update the OS again. With Rocky Linux they have 10 years of updates.
I think I will still eventually go to Rocky Linux but it will take more work since I need to compile the source and investigate the dependencies a little more. Once I get that solid I’ll get it working and the clone that server to have a backup.
The OS update on the source server went fine. The server I stream the music to from my source server that takes it to the internet I put in place required quite a few items like, updating secure tunnel with a new certificate, ensure I had the correct ports still opened on that server so I could update my router to stream from the different server. Then had to change the system the application encoders were pointing to on the source system I updated the security OS patches on. I still had issues and couldn’t stream to the internet but the local connection was working and it was updating the external directories of IceCast and ShoutCast across the internet. Just couldn’t stream!
Updating to this point to what was my original music streaming IceCast and ShoutCast server, then flipping back from my backup streaming server took a lot of re-integration as it was. I decided to point back to the backup stream relay server that I use ShoutCast and IceCast streamers to reach out to the internet and troubleshoot the issues going to my original server. Finally noticed that the server I was switching to was taking a lot of network hops to get to my site which is right there on my router. Looked at the internal routes of my network interfaces on my system and they were not correct. NetworkManager was again the culprit and twisted everything going from Fedora 38 to Fedora 41. A while ago I had gone from Fedora 34 to 38 and the same thing happened but I never corrected it. I decided to run errands, eat, did stuff around the house. watched a little TV and decided to give this another shot tonight.
I just need to get familiar with NetworkManager. The familar ifcfg scripts we could update files make copies edited etc. NetworkManager has some of that. The thing I don’t like about NetworkManager on servers is it tries to control items by default like names of interfaces, move mac\hardware addresses around etc that you don’t mind on a laptop but not a server that needs to communicate with many other end points.
Anyway I found a parameter to stop some of the automatic items NetworkManager tried to control and then manually made edits correcting what my default interfaces were, which interfaces have priority and the routes fell in place.
Then pointed the ports back from the source back to the different but original streaming server that hosts my IceCast and ShoutCast streams. Had a few other items that I needed to fix and here we are back streaming music over the internet again!
Getting dingy from all the troubleshooting I’ll come back to edit later, maybe. 🙂
Performing OS updates from the originating stream server. Will also test updated IceCast and ShoutCast streaming relay server.
Be back up and streaming soon
Here I am listening to my Snakeice House of Beats stream late night slow jams and my receiver cuts off with a snap.
Looked over to see my Denon S970H receiver in an update cycle. Told me the percentage and approximate time.
So for a short time I went to my audio player at the top of the Now Playing page and continued listening.
The receiver picked up playing again once the update completed.
Now back to this music!
Throwing that Snakeice House of Beats mix out today. Can’ just do one genre or time period a there’s just too much music to listen to I want to listen to with you.
Listening to artist like The Sugarhill Gang, Paris, Vory, Jack Harlow, Nicki Minaj, Steve Miller Band, DVSN and Stacey Q.
Some nice party type jams and then some slow jams of all era and genres of music Snakeice House of Beats style.
Prince, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Greenday, Silk Sonic, Mario, Maysa and others!
I updated the overall dhoytt.com ssl certificates as well as the ssl certificate associated with streams embedded in the site. If your are using a player that is secure just point to the streams and most will prompt you to update the cert or just update it.
Here’s a list of my streams and bitrates you can place in you media players or click on and it may play if you have a compatible media player or browser:
You can also look on my Now Playing Page https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/ for the following media players to listen. There may be a slight delay before they start playing of several seconds especially for the IceCast relay media players embedded on the site.
Listen 320kbps ShoutCast Listen 192kbps ShoutCast Listen 128kbps ShoutCast Listen 64kbps ShoutCast Listen 320kbps IceCast Listen 160kbps IceCast Listen 128kbps IceCast Listen 64kbps IceCastI have the station and website back up after an extensive power outage here in part of Sacramento.
I had a plethora of patches to update on my XCP-ng systems and I ended up having to restart the toolstacks on my systems. I started on my slave server restarting my “XCP-ng toolstack” which caused issues as it could not contact my master in the pool due to them talking to different versions of the software packages.
Took me a while to see this was the issue because problems started when I updated the Rocky Linux 9.x system and rebooted it and it would not restart. The Rocky Linux 9.x system was of course running on my slave XCP-ng server. After a while I recalled I needed to restart the XCP-ng hosts server’s toolstack which doesn’t interrupt the VM servers running on it as that was the likely issue . When I restarted the toolstack then suddenly the slave wouldn’t come out of maintenance mode. Tried several toolstack restarts and restarting the XAPI service without luck.
I looked at some documentation and saw I needed to disable HA (High Availability) before restarting toolstack and that didn’t help. I decided to reboot but move over my VMS to the master but couldn’t due to the master being a lower version after my tootstak restart. I finally rebooted and had the same issues and took down some other VM’s I couldn’t control but were still up while the server was in maintenance mode.
After rebooting the slave XCP-ng remained in maintenance mode but with my VMs down of course. I had my ShoutCast and IceCast servers for https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/ on my XCP-ng slave host so no one was able to listen while I was doing this however my web site was till up as that VM system was on the master.
After finally looking through logs I saw that the slave was trying to communicate with the master since they were in the same resource pool. The logs showed the reason the slave would not fully boot was it could not communicate with the master. The networking was fine so I figured it was the version causing them to no communicate.
This is when I decided to gracefully shutdown the web server and other VM serves on the XCP-ng master just in case the server needed to be rebooted and not the toolstack just restarted.
Well the simple XCP-ng master toolstack restart allowed the slave to communicate to it and then come back up. The lesson I need to remember is to do all updates and restarts on the master first or switch over the slave to the master if I do it backwards which is too much unnecessary work.
Back and running with a lot of maintenance and updates needed in my server environment as I have been working tirelessly on getting the rental back up to speed and about 4 other projects that consumed my time this year.
Housebound rearranging and getting rid of clutter and setting up a symphony of songs varying the tempo, genres and eras the way I normally would! Who may be coming or have already gone through this mix you ask, well artist like 2 Live Crew, Bobby Womack, Jimi Hendrix, Kendrick Lamar, Ella Mai, Gunna, Cecile, Olivia […]
Doing OS security updates of the W2019 application server that’s the source where I keep music and encode the streams as well as the streaming Linux Fedora relay server where I share the IceCast and ShoutCast systems. Will be down and then right back up in no time!
I was doing system maintenance of updating my System OS security patches of the system I source the music from earlier today and decided to point the source to the original stream relay server I had upgraded to the most recent release of Fedora yesterday jumping several OS versions. This way I could stay updated […]
Performing OS updates from the originating stream server. Will also test updated IceCast and ShoutCast streaming relay server. Be back up and streaming soon
Here I am listening to my Snakeice House of Beats stream late night slow jams and my receiver cuts off with a snap. Looked over to see my Denon S970H receiver in an update cycle. Told me the percentage and approximate time. So for a short time I went to my audio player at the […]
Throwing that Snakeice House of Beats mix out today. Can’ just do one genre or time period a there’s just too much music to listen to I want to listen to with you. Listening to artist like The Sugarhill Gang, Paris, Vory, Jack Harlow, Nicki Minaj, Steve Miller Band, DVSN and Stacey Q.
Some nice party type jams and then some slow jams of all era and genres of music Snakeice House of Beats style. Prince, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Greenday, Silk Sonic, Mario, Maysa and others!
I updated the overall dhoytt.com ssl certificates as well as the ssl certificate associated with streams embedded in the site. If your are using a player that is secure just point to the streams and most will prompt you to update the cert or just update it. Here’s a list of my streams and bitrates […]
I have the station and website back up after an extensive power outage here in part of Sacramento.
I had a plethora of patches to update on my XCP-ng systems and I ended up having to restart the toolstacks on my systems. I started on my slave server restarting my “XCP-ng toolstack” which caused issues as it could not contact my master in the pool due to them talking to different versions of […]
