[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#290034: libasound2 1.0.7 causing problems with XMMS

[Christopher Martin]

Package: libasound2
Version: 1.0.7-4

[CCing the XMMS bug report]

Hello,

In bug #287583, we've been discussing a recent problem which has cropped 
up with XMMS (all recent packages). With the ALSA output plug-in, when a 
playing song is paused, ~/.xsession-errors begins to fill with thousands 
of erorr messages:

ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:490:(snd_pcm_hw_delay) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DELAY failed: 
File descriptor in bad state

In the aforementioned bug report, it was noted that the problem 
disappeared when the user reverted to libasound2 1.0.6-5. Indeed, it 
seems that the error message in question was only added to libasound2 in 
1.0.7.

Rather than re-assign the bug to ALSA, I'm going to file a new one, since 
there might be a problem with XMMS as well, one merely uncovered by the 
new libasound2 package.

Cheers,
Christopher Martin