Bug#393686: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#393686: alsa-utils: hard lockup when
running alsactl names
Elimar Riesebieter
riesebie at lxtec.de
Tue Oct 17 20:35:57 UTC 2006
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 the mental interface of
Vincent McIntyre told:
> Package: alsa-utils
> Version: 1.0.13-1
> Severity: normal
>
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>
> This is a pure 'etch' system, with Maestro card (lspci output below).
> I am trying to get some sound output (from the headphone socket, but the
> speaker isn't working either). So I almost certainly have something set
> not quite right, but a hardlockup isn't what I was expecting from an
> innocent listing of device names.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> user$ /usr/sbin/alsactl names
User can not write to /etc/asound.names
> same occurs if I run as root.
What tells
$ ls -al /etc/asound.names
?
> Because the system locks up totally, it's rather hard to provide any
> useful strace output. I attempted this once but the system dies before
> the strace output file can even be opened.
Could you please try as user
$ alsactl -f $HOME/asond_user.names names
and check that file?
I tried same here with same soundcard and it is _not_ reproducible
for me.
Elimer
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