Just got FMS running on Fedora 4. Ran into a few problems, so thought I'd
document them here just in case anyone was facing similar issues.

Our infrastructure guys installed it, but only the admin server and console
was available. I couldn't get the actual FMS server up and running and it
didn't output any error messages anywhere.

I found the issue by running fmsmanager directly and got the (formally
suppressed) error that it needed libnspr4.so.

Installing that made everything jump into life and I can finally get down and
write some apps.

Our only question is why is FMS using this library? And why isn't this
dependancy documented?

Hope this helps.

I'm seeing this same issue but I've installed the libnspr4.so (yum install
libnspr4.so) and it still doe not seem to work with no errors at all. FMS is
just not running even though it says it starts after a reboot.

Help...
Michael

Ok...this is the process that worked for me...

1. Install Fresh Fedora Core 4 (or any Fedora system).
2. Take all defaults and make sure to install all development tools and
editors (does not need to be configured as a server)
3. Copy Flash install files to system into a directory as listed below and
then follow script.


# COMMANDS TO RUN:
ls
cd /
mkdir flash_downloads
cd flash_downloads/

# Copy flash install files here (FlashMediaServer2.tar.gz)

# Make sure up2date works
up2date
rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
up2date

# Install dependencies
yum install libnspr4.so
yum install libstdc++.so.5

# Make sure "locate" database works
updatedb
locate libnspr4.so
locate libstdc++.so.5
locate libssl.so.0.9.7f
locate libcrypto.so.0.9.7f

# Create symbolic links to other dependencies
cd /lib
ln -s libssl.so.0.9.7f libssl.so.4
ln -s libcrypto.so.0.9.7f libcrypto.so.4

# Add a new user and group called "fms"
groupadd fms
useradd -g fms fms

# Punch holes in the firewall iptables
clear
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 1935 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 1111 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables
/etc/init.d/iptables restart
clear

# Install FMS
ls
tar -zxf FlashMediaServer2.tar.gz
ls
cd FMS_2_0_r1145_linux/
ls
./installFMS -platformWarnOnly

# when asked the user name and group name to run as, specify "fms"

# Power off and reboot
shutdown -h now

# Make sure FMS is running
ps -ef | grep fms

# Test with application of your choice
#END

is it possible to install FCS 1.5 or FMS 2.0 on Linux Debian ???
i have tryed but a message told that a lib file is missing!!! I dont know what
to do... please help me. I really need to run FCS in my server

Tnx a lot

hi,

How do I get this to work for Red Hat v4? since yum is not used in the red hat version.

Quick tip: remove the -silent option from the fms startup script,put it back
later. Tail /var/log/messages when you're ready to run to see if there are any
errors.

Edit /etc/init.d/fms
Find this:
./server start -silent > /dev/null 2>&1
Change to this:
./server start
(I just comment out the line with -silent all together)

Instructions for RHEL4:

up2date compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3
up2date compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2
up2date mozilla-nspr-devel-1.7.13-1.4.1
up2date mozilla-nspr-1.7.13-1.4.1

create an fms user:

useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false fms

Run the FMS installer.


There might be 1 or 2 libs that complain that they're missing just symlink
them to the newer version of the lib:

ln -s newerlib.so.6 oldlib.so.4

I did that part a few days ago and can't remember which ones were needed.

Start FMS:


watch /var/log/messages for any errors:

tail -f /var/log/messages

/etc/init.d/fms start



Macromedia has such a large heaping pile'o shi- er. junk with this thing. The
installer is terrible, the need for old compatability libraries is deplorable.
Support for RHEL3/4 shouldn't require any compat-* libs!

Paul

It worked for me too,
just need to add something:
after the above intructions are comleted, you may want to log into the
administration area, usuly at port 1111.
Now, if you get the folowing error message:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <result>
<level>error</level>
<code>NetConnection.Connect.Rejected</code>
<description>Admin user requires valid username and password.</description>
<timestamp> ... <timestamp>
</result>

don't dispeare and start over, maybe reinstall Fedora, like did, and
waste 2-3 days, when in fact the FMS is ok and running. Do what i did, and
search the internet for
a file named: [b]fms2_console.swf[/b], it's the administrative console...
enter the IP and connect,
Good Luck.

PS. Most of the dedicated server providers all use some version of Fedora,
i don't know why Adobe, doesn't update a bit it's installer to support this v.
of linux,
it's running fine and stable.
Thanks guys for your help.
(FOR Search Enignes: fedora core linux flash media communication server
install installation, it's hard to find
this topic since it's only reffered as FMS :) )

I am trying to get FMS set up on my Dedicated, FC4

The installation goes ok using using the instructions posted...

I then installed the sample applications and tried to set them up using the
administrative console. However when I create a new application instance it
disappears from the admin console after a while. Looking at the log files i
keep seeing the following entry.


#Fields: date time x-pid x-status x-ctx x-comment
2006-03-04 20:28:48 26050 (e)2631007 Failed to create thread
(TCAsyncIO::init). -
2006-03-04 20:28:48 26050 (e)2661007 Failed to create thread
(TCServerConnector::startConnector). -
2006-03-04 20:28:48 26050 (e)2581279 Assert failed in
/server/TCTinCanConnector.cpp line 96 -
2006-03-04 20:28:48 26050 (e)2571122 Server aborted. -

any ideas?