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Hi all-- |
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For some days now, I've been having a problem with almost all media |
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players and one emulator. |
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Xine 1.1.1-r4 opened, but crashed when closing the splash screen. |
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Totem 1.3.91 (bmg, gstreamer backend) opened, and then crashed immediately. |
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mplayer was OK (but I prefer xine, and naturally was concerned about the |
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other two crashing like that). |
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FakeNES 0.3.1 with Allegro >4.1 (yes, I tried all three versions) |
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crashed with a signal #6 in Allegro (but 0.1.5 with Allegro 4.0.3 worked |
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fine, so I just masked everything above that combination). |
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I ultimately found that the error was the same for all three programs: |
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totem: conf.c:3144: snd_config_iterator_first: Bewering `node->type == |
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SND_CONFIG_TYPE_COMPOUND' mislukt. |
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The same line number, even, but in what program or library's conf.c, was |
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the question. |
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Goolgling revealed that the problem was ALSA, but the only solution I |
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found was to downgrade ALSA. |
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So I did that, masking |
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=media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11_rc3 |
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=media-libs/alsa-oss-1.0.11_rc3 |
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=media-sound/alsa-firmware-1.0.11_rc3 |
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=media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11_rc3 |
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and then doing an emerge -uaDNtv world to downgrade those packages (to |
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1.0.10, for the most part). |
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Lo and behold, Totem and Xine suddenly worked again. I unmasked Allegro |
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and FakeNES-0.3.1, and that works too (got FakeNES 0.3.1 open right now). |
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Hurrah!! The problem is, this seems very much to be a bug in some ALSA |
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ebuild (the person whose advice I followed on the ALSA-user's list was |
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also a Gentoo user, also using 1.0.11_rc3), but I don't know which part |
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of ALSA (which package of the four I downgraded I should file the bug |
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against), nor what precisely to file as a bug; can I get away with |
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"Alsa-* fails with multiple applications"? I mean, basically, all I know |
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is that downgrading some part of ALSA allowed these programs to run when |
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they stopped before-- which is weird enough in itself, since I upgraded |
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ALSA on the 5th of February, and this issue just manifested itself, |
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afaik... I *think* xine and Totem were running up to a couple of days |
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ago. So it could be something else I upgraded that broke ALSA, but that |
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takes me completely out of my depth in terms of bug-testing. |
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I seem to have found a bug, and it seems to be related to ALSA, but may |
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be triggered by something else. |
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Is anybody else seeing this kind of issue, first of all, and second of |
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all, does anybody know how I can determine where the bug actually is so |
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I can submit it? |
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Thanks for any help, |
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Holly |
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