Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261205AbUKBMFH (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 07:05:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261212AbUKBMFG (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 07:05:06 -0500 Received: from smtp-out-02.utu.fi ([130.232.202.172]:17147 "EHLO smtp-out-02.utu.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261205AbUKBMCH (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 07:02:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:02:01 +0200 From: Jan Knutar Subject: Re: XMMS (or some other audio player) 'hang' issues with intel8x0 and dmix plugin [u] In-reply-to: <1099396329.713.4.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> To: Christophe Saout Cc: Martin Schlemmer , Linux Kernel Mailing Lists , Takashi Iwai , alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Message-id: <200411021402.01566.jk-lkml@sci.fi> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1099284142.11924.17.camel@nosferatu.lan> <200411021340.03164.jk-lkml@sci.fi> <1099396329.713.4.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 18 On Tuesday 02 November 2004 13:52, Christophe Saout wrote: > > What's strange is that almost always when it happens, either mplayer or > > beep-media-player will have an extra forked process. > > This has something to do with dmix forking off a process, I don't know > exactly what it is for, it does something with the dmix unix socket > in /tmp. Aha. I've also, I recall, seen player hang right on start, and then also presumably in alsa-lib trying to open the socket in /tmp but blocking forever on that for some reason... Intermittent bugs are the most annoying of all :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/