Bug#522796: mixer-applet: uses 100% cpu after removal of soundcard

[Frank Loeffler]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.22.3-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

when I remove a sound card from the system (usb, logitech webcam, micro) which
was alsa device 0, but there is a second sound card (build-in, intel) alsa
card 1 in the system, the mixer-applet starts to use 100% cpu. Killing and
restarting the applet resolves the issue.
After the removal, card 0 is not accessable and not usable, but card 1 still
is and the number of usable cards is also still greater than 0, which might
be unexpected for some code (just my guess).

thanks, Frank

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.20080225 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.24            Debian configuration management sy
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-applets-data     2.22.3-3          Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.22.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel            2.20.3-5          launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa [gs 0.10.19-2         GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.8-4.1~lenny1 GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  libapm1                3.2.2-12          Library for interacting with APM d
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcpufreq0            004-2             shared library to deal with the cp
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-5           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1+lenny1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2     2.22.3-2          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomekbd2           2.22.0-1          GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomekbdui2         2.22.0-1          User interface library for libgnom
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgnomevfs2-extra     1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (extra m
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.19-2         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.19-3         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-7             2.22.3-1          gtop system monitoring library
ii  libgucharmap6          1:2.22.3-2        Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libgweather1           2.22.3-1          GWeather shared library
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3           sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liboobs-1-4            2.22.0-2          GObject based interface to system-
ii  libpanel-applet2-0     2.20.3-5          library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck22              2.22.3-1          Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxklavier12          3.5-2             X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  python                 2.5.2-3           An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
ii  deskbar-applet                2.22.3.1-1 universal search and navigation ba
ii  gnome-media                   2.22.0-3   GNOME media utilities
ii  gnome-netstatus-applet        2.12.1-2   Network status applet for GNOME 2
ii  gnome-system-monitor          2.22.3-1   Process viewer and system resource
ii  python-gnome2                 2.22.0-1   Python bindings for the GNOME desk

Versions of packages gnome-applets suggests:
ii  acpid                         1.0.8-1    Utilities for using ACPI power man
pn  cpufreqd | cpudyn | powernowd <none>     (no description available)
pn  tomboy                        <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  gnome-applets/cpufreq_SUID_bit: false