I hate subjects, They're too short to get the point across, and if you just put, "Stuff is broke" everyone thinks you're an idiot.

Ok here's the issue. I have both icecast and shoutcast running on a dedicated server, using centova to manage them. Today after a couple of the icecast streams were sold the users said they weren't working. When I went to take a look, it said the streams weren't running, so I hit the start button. Centova said the stream was successfully started but in the status section it still said it was offline. I can hit the start button over and over and it still says it's starting, but it never actually starts. Any ideas how to fix it?

Oh and here's the error log, not sure what to make of it.

[2011-08-20 15:50:00] INFO main/main Icecast 2.3.2 server started
[2011-08-20 15:50:00] DBUG yp/yp_recheck_config Updating YP configuration
[2011-08-20 15:50:00] INFO connection/get_ssl_certificate No SSL capability on any configured ports
[2011-08-20 15:50:00] INFO fserve/fserv_thread_function file serving thread started
[2011-08-20 15:50:00] INFO yp/yp_update_thread YP update thread started
[2011-08-20 15:50:00] WARN source/source_fallback_file unable to open file "web/live"
[2011-08-20 15:50:00] WARN source/source_fallback_file unable to open file "web/autodj"
[2011-08-20 15:50:01] DBUG auth/add_authenticated_listener Stats request, sending XSL transformed stats
[2011-08-20 15:50:07] INFO main/main Icecast 2.3.2 server started
[2011-08-20 15:50:07] DBUG yp/yp_recheck_config Updating YP configuration
[2011-08-20 15:50:07] INFO connection/get_ssl_certificate No SSL capability on any configured ports
[2011-08-20 15:50:07] INFO stats/_stats_thread stats thread started
[2011-08-20 15:50:07] INFO fserve/fserv_thread_function file serving thread started
[2011-08-20 15:50:07] INFO yp/yp_update_thread YP update thread started
[2011-08-20 15:50:07] WARN source/source_fallback_file unable to open file "web/live"
[2011-08-20 15:50:07] WARN source/source_fallback_file unable to open file "web/autodj"
[2011-08-20 15:50:08] DBUG auth/add_authenticated_listener Stats request, sending XSL transformed stats

Little update. I read that this issue can be caused by more than one instance of icecast running. So I stopped icecast, and started it again and I'm still having the same issue. I really think it's an issue with centova because why else would centova tell me the stream is running and it's not running at the same time.

Seems to me Icecast was not installed correctly.

May also be a permissions problem, check permissions using this kbase article
https://secure.centova.com/pages/faqs/display/disaster_recovery_63

CC might tell you that it's starting and then tell you it's offline if IceCast is, in fact, starting, then exiting shortly thereafter.

Check the last page of your IceCast error log.  If nothing's there that indicates why it's exiting, then IceCast is most likely crashing.  Like My Auto DJ suggested, that would most likely indicate a problem with the way it was installed.

Little update. I read that this issue can be caused by more than one instance of icecast running. So I stopped icecast, and started it again and I'm still having the same issue. I really think it's an issue with centova because why else would centova tell me the stream is running and it's not running at the same time.

This is the answer I was looking for, after stopping icecast2 in the terminal [kill pid#] I restarted icecast in the management pan for CCast and it is working.