[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#568101: libasound2: leaks timer file descriptors leading pulseaudio to go nuts, eventually

[Gustavo Noronha Silva]

Package: libasound2
Version: 1.0.21a-1
Severity: important

Pulseaudio is going nuts, and complaining about too many open files in
my buildbot slave that tests WebKitGTK+:

   http://build.webkit.org/results/GTK Linux Release/r54218 (8387)/results.html

Restarting it makes things work again. The Ubuntu people seem to have
discovered the cause of the problem:

   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/451893/comments/21

And upstream seems to have fixed it in git already:

   http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=commitdiff;h=a256766c10c52cb6667de8a65f5cbb332fad4cc7

Please apply this fix, or release a newer version that includes it! =)

See you,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-5   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

libasound2 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libasound2 suggests:
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.21-3   ALSA library additional plugins

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