[gentoo-user] mpg123: Can't open /dev/dsp! SOLVED!

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:11:58PM -0800, Chad Feller wrote

> can your run something like "ls -l /bin > /dev/dsp"

  Thanks for that hint.  I tried it, and it complained about the device
being busy.  I used lsof, and found a bunch of channels in use by
mplayer.  I last used mplayer a few days ago, and it may have crashed,
leaving files locked.  I ran "killall mplayer" as root, and mpg123 works
OK again.

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