| Summary: | KPDF grabs the audio device | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Applications] kpdf | Reporter: | Saurabh Asthana <faplap> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Albert Astals Cid <aacid> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | tokoe |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Right, we don't use any sound device. Maybe you got some error message dialog that came with a sound notification? No, no error messages. I'm not sure why kpdf is opening that sound device, but it definitely is blocking other applications from using it until it is killed. I'm not sure why it would do this in a way that isn't ALSA-friendly, like everything else on the system... On 2 Aug 2007 23:45:40 -0000, Pino Toscano <toscano.pino@tiscali.it> wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail] Was that the first time this problem happened, or it happens more frequently? Happens quite often, at least on this system. I'm not sure if I've noticed it on my other desktops. On 2 Aug 2007 23:53:39 -0000, Pino Toscano <toscano.pino@tiscali.it> wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail] A debian user has reported this as http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148470 Or rather as this? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=436050 I am the reporter of the Debian bug, and I have experienced this behaviour two or three times within several months. This happens quite regularly on my Ubuntu Gutsy. I currently have 7 instances of kpdf open and all of them grabbed /dev/pcm/pcmC0D0p $ kpdf -v Qt: 3.3.7 KDE: 3.5.8 KPDF: 0.5.8 It happened to me before on Feisty. Hej, how did you open the kpdf instances? Where they opened by clicking on a PDF document in firefox? Ciao, Tobias Hi there. I discovered that when you play something in firefox using flash (and then flash opens serveral sound device files), and then fork off a new process form firefox (lets say you open a pdf from firefox with kpdf), then firefox doesn't close its opened file-descriptors before calling exec*(kpdf) but after calling fork. that then means that after flash stopped playing stuff and closed the descriptor, it will remains being opened by the kpdf process. This seems to be a bug in firefox. Someone should defer it to them. Firefox bug, then report the problem to the firefox developers. For sake of completeness, Firefox bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147659 |
Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.7) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux This is more of a bug in Linux than in kpdf, since I should never even have to worry about any one application bogarting my sound card in a modern desktop operating system. Nevertheless: kpdf seems to be a prime offender in this regard. On many an occasion I find sound unable to function - mplayer craps out, Flash stops making noises, amarok refuses to play. Why? Why indeed: graft@deneb:~$ lsof /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p lsof: WARNING: can't stat() tmpfs file system /dev/shm/var.run Output information may be incomplete. lsof: WARNING: can't stat() tmpfs file system /dev/shm/var.lock Output information may be incomplete. COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME kpdf 31056 graft 57u CHR 116,8 13810 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p What exactly is kpdf doing using that audio device? I have no idea. As far as I can tell, kpdf doesn't even have any notifications.