[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#657342: Bug#657342: [alsa-utils] alsamixer segmentation fault

[Guy Roussin]

Hi,

Thank you Elimar for the rapid answer

>> $ LANG=C ; alsamixer
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>> And this line in dmesg :
>> Jan 25 20:19:05 pcplat53 kernel: [  273.757100] alsamixer[3014] general
>> protection ip:7f1b8c903fd0 sp:7fffa61e3c80 error:0 in
>> libasound.so.2.0.0[7f1b8c8ba000+eb000]
>
> Hmm, this looks more like a hardware failure....
> Did this happens within X? Try to reinstall alsa-utils. Are there
> more applications which give a segfault? Defect RAM?
I reinstall alsa-utils and libasound2 but i get the same error.
This is the only error i see in dmesg.
I test the memory for half an hour with Dell tools from the laptop
bios  (latitude e6420) but no ram errors.
When i run alsamixer with strace the last access file is
/var/run/gdm3/auth-for-guy-IhSTSE/database

I notice that after "/etc/init.d/gdm3 stop", alsamixer
works fine in a console.

Guy