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21.04.2016 11:28, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Yuri K. Shatroff <yks-uno@××××××.ru> wrote: |
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>> Hi gentoo-users, |
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>> A few days ago I updated linux kernel to 4.5.1. Yesterday I got a disk space |
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>> overflow in my /home partition. Cleaned it up and rebooted, just to run into |
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>> the same issue today morning. Investigations revealed that the |
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>> `.xsessions-errors` had grown to tremendous 100G full of messages like: |
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>> AL lib: (EE) ALCplaybackAlsa_mixerProc: start failed: File |
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>> descriptor in a bad state |
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>> It is - *50G per DAY!* |
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>> Thinking about a possible cause and bearing in mind I've not updated ALSA |
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>> recently rather than the kernel, I went to the kernel's changelog and found |
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>> that version 4.5.2 fixes several ALSA-related bugs. I upgraded immediately |
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>> and got rid of the error. |
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>> So I advise everyone not to install the 4.5.1 kernel and suggest removing it |
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>> from portage ASAP. If anyone knows how I could submit such a request, I'm |
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>> all ears. |
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>> Thanks for your attention! |
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>> -- |
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>> Regards, |
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>> Yuri K. Shatroff |
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> That's interesting. That was certainly not my experience running vanilla 4.5.1. |
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> Although I compiled the kernel sources I had previously downloaded |
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> from the kernel.org's git repository. |
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> How did you obtain your kernel sources? |
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I emerged gentoo-sources==4.5.1. |
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I believe this is the related commit: |
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ALSA: hda - Fix regression of monitor_present flag in eld proc file |
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This can be wrong, but anyway, I listed some facts supporting the |
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hypothesis of a problem in the 4.5.1 version. |
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Regards, |
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Yuri K. Shatroff |
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