[SOLVED] START_XMLRPC_SERVER_ERR - Cannot start XMLRPC Server - Exiting
by lferreira on 19 Feb 2009Hello, 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 :) )
4 Answers
Anon,
Thank you for posting the cleanup process. But you can do all of the above with just one command (obviously if you are not too much concerned about killing your squid process)
killall -9 squid python; service squid start
Thank you for using videocache :)
well, using killall -9 python i agree, but the instructions where to clean up everything and in the process explain how the magic of cachevideo works. I agree with you, but with that, for the most curious person, that will not be enought. never the less, here is the cleanup instruction. :)
Cheers,
BTW, i completely forgot to make the login before posting this.
duh....
Hi,
Thanks for explaining the process. And I edited the post with you as author :)