Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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Contents 1 General 1.1 Importing an audio file gets to about 50%, pauses, and then fails with an unhelpful error 2 Distro-specific questions 2.1 Ubuntu 2.1.1 After installation I get an error "Cannot start Rivendell daemons" whenever trying to start rdadmin, rdairplay, rd<anything>.

General

Importing an audio file gets to about 50%, pauses, and then fails with an unhelpful error

1. Be sure to check the permissions on the /var/snd directory.
   The permissions should be such that it is owned by the AudioUser and AudioGroup specified in the configuration file (/etc/rd.conf). If it is not, change the ownership in a console like this either using "sudo" or switching to the root user (replace "AudioOwner" and "AudioGroup" with what is specified in the configuration file):

   chown -R <AudioOwner>.<AudioGroup> /var/snd

2. (OLD - the dependency on sox has been removed) This is caused when normalization is turned on as it reads the file in and then starts normalization at the 50% mark. The Rivendell Ubuntu packages require, but for some reason do not correctly specify, a dependency on additional codecs for sox. Installing 'libsox-fmt-all' from apt will correct that omission.

Distro-specific questions

Ubuntu

After installation I get an error "Cannot start Rivendell daemons" whenever trying to start rdadmin, rdairplay, rd<anything>.

1. Check for the existence of a directory called /var/run/rivendell.
   Because /var/run is stored on a RAM disk in Ubuntu this directory needs to be created after every boot. (This is fixed in the initialization scripts provided by the Tryphon package repository)
2. If you are using the guide from Alban you need to delete the "; < - your login" when you edit rd.conf for your AudioUser or the startup will fail with an invalid AudioUser error.