[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#406677: Bug#406677: alsa-utils: Alsaconf as a forkbomb

Elimar Riesebieter riesebie at lxtec.de
Sun Nov 2 18:47:50 UTC 2008


* Steve Langasek [070116 05:32 +0100]
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:06:53PM +0100, Robert Gomu??ka wrote:
> > Problem occurs during module unloading. When it hits snd_seq_oss, 
> > kernel/module utils fall into endless loop (checked with alsaconf with read 
> > invocations added). I am not sure if it should still remain as Debian bug in 
> > this case.
> 
> Ok, if I manually load snd_seq_oss and unload it, I'm not able to reproduce
> the problem that way either.  I'll leave it up to the alsa-utils maintainer
> to decide whether the bug should be closed or reassigned, but at least it's
> pretty clear that it's not a bug in alsaconf if it can be reproduced by just
> modprobe -r'ing the module.

Closing this bug for above reasons. Else alsaconf is obsolete.

Elimar

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