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November 28, 2006
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Flash Media Server 2 problems

  • November 28, 2006
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I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4) on a dedicated server. I have followed installation instructions to the T (tried the PDF documentation way, 2 or 3 different ways from these forums, and on several google sites) and the installation works 100%. The server and admin server are apparantly starting as well, because I can connect and login using the admin interface. However, that's all I can do. None of my applications will connect to the server they all complain about "cannot connect to the server".

I thought it could have been my programs, but i tried the official sample programs and they didn't work either. Upon further examination of the logs, I find this:

core.00.log:

#Version: 1.0
#Start-Date: 2006-11-28 12:28:09
#Software: Macromedia Flash Media Server 2.0.3 r68
#Date: 2006-11-28
#Fields: date time x-pid x-status x-ctx x-comment
2006-11-28 12:28:04 21458 (i)2581246 Core (21458) sending register cmd to edge. -
2006-11-28 12:28:05 21458 (i)2581247 Core (21458) disconnected from edge. -

edge.00.log:

#Version: 1.0
#Start-Date: 2006-11-28 12:28:04
#Software: Macromedia Flash Media Server 2.0.3 r68
#Date: 2006-11-28
#Fields: date time x-pid x-status x-ctx x-comment
2006-11-28 12:28:04 21455 (w)2581201 No primary license key found. Switching to Developer Edition. -
2006-11-28 12:28:04 21455 (i)2631174 Listener started ( _defaultRoot__edge1 ) : 19350 -
2006-11-28 12:28:04 21455 (e)2631114 Failed to start listeners for adaptor _defaultRoot__edge1. -
2006-11-28 12:28:04 21455 (e)2581279 Assert failed in /server/edge/TCEdgeProtocol.cpp line 245 -
2006-11-28 12:28:04 21455 (e)2571122 Server aborted. -
#Date: 2006-11-28
#Fields: date time x-pid x-status x-ctx x-comment
2006-11-28 12:28:09 21692 (w)2581201 No primary license key found. Switching to Developer Edition. -
2006-11-28 12:28:09 21692 (i)2631174 Listener started ( _defaultRoot__edge1 ) : 19350 -
2006-11-28 12:28:10 21692 (e)2631114 Failed to start listeners for adaptor _defaultRoot__edge1. -
2006-11-28 12:28:10 21692 (e)2581279 Assert failed in /server/edge/TCEdgeProtocol.cpp line 245 -
2006-11-28 12:28:10 21692 (e)2571122 Server aborted. -

it looks like whatever "Failed to start listeners......" is, that's the problem. Does anyone know if this is indeed the problem and how to fix it? I am using the developers license and the FMS server is on the same server as the apache installation. installed with all defaults (ports, paths, etc...) except user/group is fms and daemon is no right now (I tried yes before and it didn't work either). everytime i "start" the server, it floods edge.00.log with the above messages about failed to start listeners.

I appreciate everyones responses, thank you.
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    5 replies

    December 2, 2006
    If a service can't start listening on a port it basically means either than you are not allowed to listen on that port. In this case you are listening to a port > 100 and you don't need to be root for that so it can't be the problem.

    In the other case the port is already in use. Make sure you stop a server/service before you try to start it again. FMS really stops and starts very slow, it takes time.

    Maybe this is your problem.
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    November 29, 2006
    i have read your post but unfortunately i have no experience with this issue. i think flashkit has a media server forum, not sure. best of luck.
    November 28, 2006
    more information:

    I do have WHM/Cpanel installed on the box. I can't find anything in CPanel/WHM that is blocking it though.

    selinux appears to be permissive and ipchains is disabled.

    any clues? please? can someone at least reply back and say they read this post?
    November 28, 2006
    doesn't anyone know how to get this working or ever heard of "Failed to start listeners...."? That has to be the problem. I'll take any suggestions i can get.

    thank you
    November 28, 2006
    does anyone have even the slightest clue what this problem could be and how i could fix it? i'll take anything you can throw at me.

    i'm under a deadline and it'd be nice to get FMS working in the next 4 hours. thank you all