Startup script fails with (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

[TheWaterbug]

Top Edit^2: Please mind. It's failing again. It worked once, on a reboot, but on a second reboot I got the original failure again.

Top Edit: Never mind. I fixed this by putting #!/bin/bash at the top of my script.

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I want to run a script at startup, so that ffmpeg pulls video from my BeeCam and pushes it to my YouTube streaming channel.

Per this guide I did:

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 sudo nano /etc/init.d/StreamToYouTube.sh
 	<pasted in known, working script>
 sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/StreamToYouTube.sh
 sudo update-rc.d StreamToYouTube.sh defaults
 

That last command resulted in:

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insserv: warning: script 'K01StreamToYouTube.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'StreamToYouTube.sh' missing LSB tags and overrides

but I'm not sure what that means.

When I boot I get an error in the message stream:

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[FAILED] Failed to start (null)
see 'systemctl status StreamToYouTube.service' for details

So I ran systemctl and it says:

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raspberrypi:~ $ systemctl status StreamToYouTube.service
● StreamToYouTube.service - (null)
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/StreamToYouTube.sh)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 1969-12-31 16:00:18 PST; 48 years 0 months ago
  Process: 568 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/StreamToYouTube.sh start (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

If I cd /etc/init.d and type ./StreamToYouTube.sh, it works, and my stream goes live. So the script is correct and executable, but I can't figure out how to get it to run automatically at boot.

Thanks!

[RaTTuS]

that is well out of date,
you need to use the systemd style startuo
i.e. [from memory so not guaranteed to work]

sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/StreamToYouTube.service

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[Unit]
Description=Streamer
After=network-online.target
Requires=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/full/path/to/script
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

then enable it like

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sudo systemctl enable StreamToYouTube 

then start it

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sudo systemctl start StreamToYouTube 

and check

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sudo systemctl status StreamToYouTube 

[edited for sanity and a few additions in the systemd.service stuff

[allfox]

Not sure if this is the problem, but it worth a note.

Did your script check if the network connection is working before it access YouTube?

According to https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwa ... orkTarget/
Normally, such a script could be scheduled with a systemd service file to make sure network is ready before it goes:

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[Unit]
Description=abcdef
After=network-online.target
Requires=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/abcdef
SyslogIdentifier=abcdef

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

However, Raspbian is not Debian. This part does not work as standard, sometimes it fails. I'm not sure if it is because Raspbian is switched to dhcpcd. You would need check the network connection manually in the script.

I just delay everything 60 seconds on boot.

Try this method:
Add this line to /etc/crontab: @reboot pi /bin/sleep 60;/full/path/to/StreamToYouTube.sh




And another common pitfall for boot script is the $PATH variable. It would be different on booting environment. So,in the script, use full path, not relative path.

[TheWaterbug]

Thanks for all the suggestions!

When I sudo reboot the Pi the script runs successfully about half the time, so it's entirely possible that it's trying to start before the network is fully up.

But what I don't understand is why the loop doesn't try again. Here's the full contents of StreamToYouTube.sh:

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#!/bin/bash
cd /usr/local/bin/
while true
do
./ffmpeg -re -thread_queue_size 512 -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://user:password@192.168.1.11:554" -i SomeMusic.mp3 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -t 01:00:00 -f flv "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/my-youtube-streaming-key"
sleep 10s
done

Based on a previous user's experience, it's not uncommon for things to crap out occasionally, so this is supposed to restart it every hour. And sometimes it does. If I ssh in and kill ffmpeg, it starts up again after 10 seconds. But if I leave it running all the time, sometimes ffmpeg will just die and not restart itself. I don't know why.

I may also be having SD card/filesystem issues, as suggested in my other thread. That 4 GB card is the original included with my first Pi2 kit, about 2 years ago. I have a new SD card on order from amazon.

[RaTTuS]

having a
Restart=always
in teh .service file will help if it bails out.

[i've edited my previous post to add a couple of useful stuff]

[TheWaterbug]

that is well out of date,
you need to use the systemd style startuo
i.e. [from memory so not guaranteed to work]
<snip>

Thanks!

I think the root of my problem (and my previous problem) was a flakey SD card. Every time I rebooted the Pi, fsck ended up fixing a bunch of problems. Then, finally, things stopped being fixable, and some files disappeared

But by then, my new SD card had arrived, so I put a new OS on it and compiled ffmpeg.

I created the service as you suggested, and it's working! I like the ability to send start/stop/status and control it that way.

I've rebooted it a few times, and it's always come up successfully.

Thanks!

Now I need to figure out how to crop the video . . .

[Jhm07bm26]

Hello!

I have same problem,
When i run ffmpeg script manually it works ,
But when i run from boot it stop after few seconds
Can you suggest me a way to solve that problem?