[gentoo-user] aRts sound server on KDE 3.5.2?

[Michael B. Trausch]

I am wondering if anybody here has run into a problem using aRts 3.5.2
with KDE 3.5.2 on ~x86.  I know that ~x86 is technically unsupported, so
I'm just looking to see if anybody else might be experencing problems
with this setup or would know how to go about attempting to troubleshoot
it.  It dies claiming CPU overload after anywhere from fifteen seconds
to thirty minutes of trying to grab all of the CPU's attention, and does
not output any sound.

Unlike information I've found from Google wherein it would only affect a
single particular user account or non-privileged users, this affects all
users on the system, including root, and the problem persists across
reboots.  This has me believing that it is a problem somewhere in the
configuration, as I've re-emerged both arts and kdemultimedia-arts, to
no avail.  And I know next to nothing about aRts, so I can't determine
how to track the bug down to file a report.

The only thing I do know is that it has something to do with a broken
pipe.  strace shows this, over and over again (about 20-30 times per
second, until artsd dies):

ioctl(9, 0x4140, 0)                     = 0
ioctl(9, 0x4142, 0)                     = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe)

The best I can do is know that this is trying to work with file
descriptor 9 and the IOCTL for 0x4142, whatever that is, is failing.
But I'm not sure how to map that open fd to a filename so that I can try
to determine if it is something I introduced as an error in my
configuration, or if there is a problem with the program somewhere,
wherein a bug needs to be reported.

	Thanks in advance for any help,
	Mike
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