Bug#491181: Acknowledgement (rhythmbox: Crashes when trying to play music files)

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]

I think I've found the issue that made rhythmbox crash. It seems that another
user that had used the desktop had 'esd' configured in his GNOME desktop (I
don't use ESD in my GNOME desktop) and it was running:

$ ps -ef |grep esd
1001     25002     1  0 16:47 ?        00:00:00 esd -nobeeps

The user had existed the GNOME desktop but esd had not finished this seemed
to prevent ALSA from working, as it was holding a lock over one of the
/dev/snd/ devices:

$ sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  1000       25284 F.... mixer_applet2
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   1001       25002 F...m esd
/dev/snd/timer:      1001       25002 f.... esd

For some reason this made Rhythmbox crash. Once this esd process is killed
Rhythmbox is able to play music just fine without crashes.

I guess rhhythmbox should handle this issue better by popping out an error
instead of crashing on the user.

If you need additional information please let me know.

Regards

Javier


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