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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Guy Roussin [120126 09:02 +0100]:

> 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.

So it looks like problems with gnome or other wm's. This isn't a bug
in alsamixer. Could you please test some other ncurses applications
like lynx-cur speedometer?

Elimar
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