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Karnash

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 9

[solved, kindly] Sound makes applications blocking

Hi !

I did not have any problem yesterday, but now after an arch update, everything related to sound goes wrong :
* flash videos is freezing my browsers
* amarok won't start
* aplay, amixer and alsamixer commands are blocking with no output
* vlc is freezing when I play a track
* the kde systemsettings application is freezing when I go to the phonon configuration

% amarok
KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work 
unnamed app(25227): Communication problem with  "amarok" , it probably crashed. 
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." " 

% vlc /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav
VLC media player 1.1.9 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
[0x2579e60] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0x7f1acc94a280)
[0x2579e60] signals interface error:  /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(?)[(nil)]
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()

% cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xf7ff8000 irq 54

% ls /dev/dsp* /dev/snd/*
/dev/dsp            /dev/snd/hwC0D0    /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p  /dev/snd/seq
/dev/snd/controlC0  /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c  /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p  /dev/snd/timer

/dev/snd/by-path:
pci-0000:00:1b.0

What I tried:
* I deinstalled and reintalled everything I could related to sound
* fuser -v /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp* does not output anything
* sudo modprobe snd_pcm_oss and sudo rmmod snd_pcm_oss does not fix anything

I found this topic but it does not solve my problem, maybe this is related?

I use Arch 64 up to date, with Awesome WM.

Anyone can help me?

Last edited by Karnash (2011-06-02 17:08:33)

Karnash

Member

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 9

Re: [solved, kindly] Sound makes applications blocking

Finally, I reinstalled my Arch box. Sound is working without any trouble ! I know, this is a pretty noob solution, but I can't leave without sound

d00maz

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Registered: 2009-11-08

Posts: 91

Re: [solved, kindly] Sound makes applications blocking

You should try and be more patient next time.
You should have downgraded some packages that might have caused the issue instead of reinstalling.