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MicrosoftSam

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Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 10

Stopping OSS causes kernel panic

After installing and getting OSS4 to work I've discovered that it somehow causes a kernel panic as soon as it is stopped. Here are some scenarios:

I shut down the system through xfce4 - xfce stops, but I then get the panic message as OSS tries to stop before the system turns off.

I close xfce4 and turn off the system with the command line - I get the kernel panic.

I try to stop OSS manually by typing '/etc/rc.d/oss-linux-free stop' in the xfce4 terminal - everything freezes and I can't do anything.

Any ideas of what might be wrong?

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: Stopping OSS causes kernel panic

Any hints in /var/log/error.log or kernel.log?

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perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

Posts: 765

Re: Stopping OSS causes kernel panic

he he - I seem to have seen most of the problems at one point or another.
a levono thinkpad t61 but running the latest centos-4.7 (sorry guys - it's work-related)
I would get a kernel panic at each shutdown (and it was always when closing the sound-modules - got a NULL-pointer) - in the end I just prevented any sound-modules from being loaded, they didn't work anyway (no driver in default repo's). In this case it was no biggie anyway, but in 'normal' use it's a bummer when you cant get the sound to work. With all due respect - but linux+sound is some sort of black magic.

afonic

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Registered: 2007-06-21

Posts: 53

Re: Stopping OSS causes kernel panic

OSS is a zombie and Alsa used their black magic tricks to get rid of it. Follow them.

On the topic, maybe you have to compile the kernel with OSS support? I know it should *not* supposed to need it to work but it never hurts trying.

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Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: Stopping OSS causes kernel panic

OSS is a zombie and Alsa used their black magic tricks to get rid of it. Follow them.

On the topic, maybe you have to compile the kernel with OSS support? I know it should *not* supposed to need it to work but it never hurts trying.

You're talking about oss 3.8. Oss4 is different... read this...

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