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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:17:08
Message-Id: 20090920021704.GB5740@solfire
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed? by walt
1 walt <w41ter@×××××.com> [09-09-20 04:13]:
2 > On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 > >walt<w41ter@×××××.com> [09-09-20 02:03]:
4 > >>On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
5 > >>
6 > >>>Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP="no" to /etc/conf.d/alsasound
7 > >>>and we will see what happens.
8 > >>
9 > >>Did you try stopping the alsa service manually?
10 > >>
11 > >>#/etc/init.d/alsasound stop
12 > >>
13 > >
14 > >This gave me errors, since my Webcam's audio part isn't implemented as
15 > >full audio device, but it does not hang:
16 > >
17 > >solfire:/home/mccramer>sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound stop
18 > > * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service.
19 > > * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ...
20 > >alsactl: get_control:249: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Mic Capture
21 > >Volume,0': Invalid argument
22 > > * Error saving levels.
23 > > [ !! ]
24 > >solfire:/home/mccramer>
25 >
26 > Ah! I've seen that same error when I neurotically switch back and forth
27 > between different kernel versions (cf. autoflagellation).
28 >
29 > Try (as root) 'alsactl store' and see if that makes any difference.
30 >
31 It produces a comparable error, since it does a comparable thing...:
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33 alsactl: get_control:249: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Mic Capture Volume,0': Invalid argument
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35 ...but this "problem" was there long before the system cannot be
36 shutdown anymore and I think it is not clean but the root of all
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