Hello, i'm posting here this solving so that other persons experiencing this know how to overpass it.
my cachevideo instalation stop caching videos. and in the log this pop up:
START_XMLRPC_SERVER_ERR - Cannot start XMLRPC Server - Exiting
Explanation:
This happen because there is more redirectors activated than the permited by squid in squid.conf.
solution:
First, comment the folowing lines in squid.conf
url_rewrite_program /usr/bin/python /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
url_rewrite_children 5
url_rewrite_access deny videocache_deny_url
url_rewrite_access allow videocache_allow_url
url_rewrite_access allow videocache_allow_dom
redirector_bypass on
Reload new config of squid
squid -k reconfigure
Clear the mess
ps aux |grep videocache
you will see that there is a loarge number on instances running. In my case this pop up:
xxx@xxx:/usr/share/videocache# ps aux |grep python
hplip 3219 0.0 0.0 48344 824 ? S Feb01 0:00 python /usr/sbin/hpssd
nobody 7171 0.0 0.1 66440 7564 ? S Feb18 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 7181 0.0 0.2 39204 8472 ? Ss Feb18 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 7182 0.0 0.2 39204 8472 ? Ss Feb18 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 7183 0.0 0.2 39208 8472 ? Ss Feb18 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 7184 0.0 0.2 39208 8472 ? Ss Feb18 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 7185 0.0 0.2 39208 8472 ? Ss Feb18 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 7442 0.0 0.2 39200 8468 ? Ss Feb18 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 7443 0.0 0.2 39200 8468 ? Ss Feb18 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 7444 0.0 0.2 39200 8468 ? Ss Feb18 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 7445 0.0 0.2 39200 8468 ? Ss Feb18 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 7446 0.0 0.2 39212 8472 ? Ss Feb18 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 31680 0.2 0.2 39196 8464 ? Ss 14:22 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 31681 0.3 0.2 39208 8472 ? Ss 14:22 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 31682 0.2 0.2 39196 8464 ? Ss 14:22 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 31683 0.2 0.2 39200 8468 ? Ss 14:22 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
nobody 31684 0.3 0.2 39204 8468 ? Ss 14:22 0:00 (python) /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
root 31716 0.0 0.0 3940 740 pts/2 S+ 14:23 0:00 grep python
after that, kill all the instances of videocache.py using kill PID
Uncomment the folowing lines in squid.conf
url_rewrite_program /usr/bin/python /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
url_rewrite_children 5
url_rewrite_access deny videocache_deny_url
url_rewrite_access allow videocache_allow_url
url_rewrite_access allow videocache_allow_dom
redirector_bypass on
Finish the job
Restart squid gracefully
/etc/init.d/squid restart
and you should see that like a miracle videocache start working again.
Hope this will help (it took me a couple of time to figure this out :) )
