[BUG] org.jitsi.videobridge.ENABLE_STATISTICS=false (default) breaks conferencing

Developers
#1

Posted a new issue at GitHub - jitsi/jitsi-videobridge: Jitsi Videobridge is a WebRTC compatible video router or SFU that lets build highly scalable video conferencing infrastructure (i.e., up to hundreds of conferences per server). which was immediately closed and i was asked to “Please use the community forum when you have questions or problems before creating new issues”; well, here i am.

BUG Description

Conferencing breaks when statistics are disabled (!?)

Current behavior

Conferencing rooms disconnects both parties as soon as the second one joins

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Expected Behavior

Everything working as usual

Possible Solution

Explicitly enable statistics (i believe the Debian installer does by default)

Steps to reproduce

set org.jitsi.videobridge.ENABLE_STATISTICS=false in /etc/jitsi/videobridge/sip-communicator.properties

Environment details

root@jitsi:~# dpkg -l | grep jitsi
ii  jitsi-meet                      2.0.5390-3                   all          WebRTC JavaScript video conferences
ii  jitsi-meet-prosody              1.0.4628-1                   all          Prosody configuration for Jitsi Meet
ii  jitsi-meet-turnserver           1.0.4628-1                   all          Configures coturn to be used with Jitsi Meet
ii  jitsi-meet-web                  1.0.4628-1                   all          WebRTC JavaScript video conferences
ii  jitsi-meet-web-config           1.0.4628-1                   all          Configuration for web serving of Jitsi Meet
ii  jitsi-videobridge2              2.1-416-g2f43d1b4-1          all          WebRTC compatible Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU)
root@jitsi:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:	10
Codename:	buster
root@jitsi:~#
#2

Can you show the jvb logs after restarting jvb?

#3

No need of logs, I reproduced it.
But I see ENABLE_STATISTICS=true is the default value when installing.

When I disable stats and restart jvb jicofo does not detect the bridge, I see only Removed brewery instance. Asking for help @Boris_Grozev is this intentional or is that a bug? Or we can state somewhere that using jvb with jicofo stats are mandatory?

@willymilkytron why do you need to disable stats?

#4

Indeed it ended up with a fix in the bridge: feat: Remove the config flag to enable/disable stats, always enabled. by bgrozev · Pull Request #1616 · jitsi/jitsi-videobridge · GitHub