[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#468741: Bug#468741: alsa-base: Sound stops working for new sessoins after a couple of days

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 the mental interface of
Shai Berger told:

> Package: alsa-base
> Version: 1.0.16-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> This bug seems related to #446968, but that bug seems mired in
> mac-powerpc-specific device driver issues, whereas I am running an
> Intel-based PC.
>
> About once or twice a week, sound stops working on my system.

once or twice isn't characteristic for an intact computational
system?

> Well, that's not exactly accurate; sound stops working for new
> logins; if an old login is open when the problem starts, sound for
> this session will usually (though not always) keep working. This
> computer serves the whole family, and we use virtual consoles so
> there are up to four sessions open at one time (none remote).
>
> As reported in #446968, whenever this happens, applications which
> try to use sound tend to hang; most annoyingly, flash hangs the
> whole browser (of course, this is out of scope of this bug).
>
> On my system, there doesn't seem to be an "/etc/init.d/alsa" as
> mentioned in #446968; after reading other bugs, I've tried
> "/etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset"

The alsa script resides in /usr/sbin/alsa since alsa-driver 1.0.15-1.
Check the changelogs ;)

> and "/etc/init.d/acpid restart", to no avail;

Isn't alsa relevant.

> a reboot does solve the problem, so I guess I just need
> to find out what it is that I need to restart. I hope it doesn't
> turn out to be the kernel...
[...]
> We're all using KDE & arts, so maybe some of the problem is there;
> next time this happens, I'll see if a new gnome session gets
> sound. But I'm skeptic.

Seems to be an arts bug. Check the sound settings of your users.
Login a nother user on console (ctrl-alt-F2) and try to play a
soundfile (mplayer, madplay, ogg123 or what ever console app is
available)

> ||/ Name                             Version
> +++-================================-========
> ii  libasound2                       1.0.15-3
[...]
> ii  linux-sound-base                 1.0.16-1
[...]
> ii  alsa-utils                       1.0.15-3

Could you please update to the latest sid version?

Which driver version are you using?
$ cat /proc/asound/version

alsa-source 1.0.16 has many fixes for intel soundchips.

Elimar


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