Bug#400268: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#400268: Possible race condition on semaphores ?

[Andrew Moise]

On 1/16/07, Andrew Moise <chops at demiurgestudios.com> wrote:
>   After fooling around a bit, I discovered that I had a stray artsd
> process hanging around (started by my user, now parented to init).  It
> hadn't shown up as linked to any of the alsa libs when I searched, but
> killing it seemed to make my sound work again.

  Whoops -- I spoke too soon.  My web browser (or possibly the
non-free flash plugin that was running within it) just downed the
semaphore again.  I reupped it by hand and everything was okay
again... for now.  I'll keep you posted.