QLC crashes occasionally
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:26 am
I maintainer of an installation:
P1 (controls) - P2 and P3 (QLCPlus 4.8.5 - standard images )
The installation runs now for several weeks, the PIs and network runs stable.
Unfortunately we have still the problem that QLCPlus crashes occasionally (on both P2 and P3)
As a workaround I wrote a "watchdog" which checks P2 and P3 and restarts them if necessary.
As it crashes to often and the malfunction is to obvious for the user, I'm under pressure to find the cause of the failures.
other "errors" (without crash):
"alsa under-run" (many messages) (didn't seem to have direct correlation to crash)
"Sound stops before light show has finished" (open issue)
P2 and P3 have the identical show files, P3 has no sound device (didn't seem to be a problem)
What we already tried:
we simplified the .qxw file
wav (instead of mp3)
if somebody has some ideas and hints for troubleshooting I would be grateful (meanwhile I'm going to the place).
many thanks in advance
Patrrick
P1 (controls) - P2 and P3 (QLCPlus 4.8.5 - standard images )
The installation runs now for several weeks, the PIs and network runs stable.
Unfortunately we have still the problem that QLCPlus crashes occasionally (on both P2 and P3)
As a workaround I wrote a "watchdog" which checks P2 and P3 and restarts them if necessary.
As it crashes to often and the malfunction is to obvious for the user, I'm under pressure to find the cause of the failures.
other "errors" (without crash):
"alsa under-run" (many messages) (didn't seem to have direct correlation to crash)
"Sound stops before light show has finished" (open issue)
P2 and P3 have the identical show files, P3 has no sound device (didn't seem to be a problem)
What we already tried:
we simplified the .qxw file
wav (instead of mp3)
if somebody has some ideas and hints for troubleshooting I would be grateful (meanwhile I'm going to the place).
many thanks in advance
Patrrick