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Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 30

MPD crashes after hours of uptime, takes Amarok with it. Alsa prob.?

I've had this problem for a while, and it's really starting to bother me.  After the computer has been on for a little time (sometimes as little as two hours of uptime) MPD will crash after some "transition".  Generally this happens when trying to resume paused music, but it happened today when trying to play music from a playlist that was just loaded--Sonata will report that it is not connected to MPD.  Once this happens, Amarok will refuse to load.  The only way I have found to fix this problem is to restart the computer.

Some data:

/var/log/mpd/mpd.error is empty.

When starting up Amarok today, I got this series of messages:

$ amarok
Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x80964e8 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x80964e8 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
QObject::connect: Incompatible sender/receiver arguments
        StarManager::ratingsColorsChanged() --> ContextBrowser::ratingOrScoreOrLabelsChanged(const QString&)
Amarok: [Loader] Amarok is taking a long time to load! Perhaps something has gone wrong?

Here are some sections from my rc.conf:

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Scan hardware and load required modules at bootup
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
# Module Blacklist - modules in this list will never be loaded by udev
MOD_BLACKLIST=()
#
# Modules to load at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a module with a ! to blacklist it
#
MODULES=(e1000 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal network netfs crond @hibernate-cleanup @alsa @cups @openntpd @mpd !kdm)

and some hardware information

$ lshwd | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corp.|ICH8 HD Audio DID (snd-hda-intel)

Note that not all sound is lost.  For example, mplayer will still play the sound in videos and will play audio files.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

abhidg

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From: City of Kol

Registered: 2006-07-01

Posts: 184

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Re: MPD crashes after hours of uptime, takes Amarok with it. Alsa prob.?

Same here -- mpd crashing? after some time especially if CPU intensive programmes are running. Takes rhythmbox and totem down with it Only solution I've found till now is to restart. I'll try xmms2 and see.