| Summary: | Kmix is crashing on KDEmod startup... | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kmix | Reporter: | Julian Cvetkov <jcvetkov> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Christian Esken <esken> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | crash | CC: | finex, jan.mette, marcus.wild |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Julian Cvetkov
2008-01-23 21:06:28 UTC
This looks more like an ALSA bug: From the stack trace I see an assertion failure in snd_hctl_handle_events(), which is an ALSA library function. Thus it's probably a better idea to report this at the ALSA bugtracker. Also I had once another bug report like this, which was fixed by upgrading the ALSA driver. But the ALSA is working fine. No recived errors from any alsa libs ,all ot the sound system functions are working fine and with no problems. Between this i update my ALSA-driver many times and also recompiled from source becouse I`m using ARCHlinux with pacman package system ,but the bug exist from the installation to present. Currently I have no idea, because the corresponding code hasn't been tocuhe for over a year. But bugs creep in ALSA from time to time. See bug 105079 and bug 101870 for references where upgrading or downgrading ALSA fixed or partially fixed the issue. Also people report that ALSA has sometimes trouble if it is used immeditely after loading a soundcard kernel module (which can happen during startup). It is also possible that the KDEMod maintainers managed to undo my patch as described in comment 5 of bug 105079 . It's hard to tell, because KDEmod (as the name tells) uses modified KDE code. In any case (it might help): ---------------------------- Please post the ouput of "amixer" (or "amixer -c 1" or any other number that corresponds to the affected soundcard). Please also report if other mixers work (e.g. alsamixer). Please also post the permissions of your sound card devices, using getfacl /dev/snd/controlC0 (or controlC1 or any other number that corresponds to the affected soundcard). Here is the output from 'amixer' version 1.0.15 and just for info my sound dev. ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia ------------------------------------- Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 15 Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [off] Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Capture Mux',0 Capabilities: volume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 4 Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB] Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Digital',0 Capabilities: cvolume Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 120 Front Left: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB] Front Right: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Mic' Item0: 'Mic' ------------------ alsamixer is working fine at any time ,under X 'KDEmod' & multiuser shell... ------------------ The output from getfacl 2.2.45 ------------------ # file: dev/snd/controlC0 # owner: root # group: audio user::rw- group::rw- other::--- My user for X is in audio group... What are yours suggestions about this ? Should I report this bug to ArchLinux community or wait for yours comments ? Could I post any information for this issue that can help to you guys ? I only want to say that the problem exist and under KDE 3.5.8, not KDEmod only... Hi there, i am one of the KDEmod packagers. We have added only one patch to KMix, this one: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=51691 I guess the patch is not the culprit for the crash... Julian, which kernel are you running? I have experienced some troubles with alsa when using a customized kernel like -kamikaze or -zen... Julian, I see three possible ways to resolve this: 1) File a bug report at ALSA Actually I do consider this to be a bug in ALSA, as the called ALSA function produces an assertion failure, which it should never do under normal circumstances. This function should return a "negative error code on failure" as documented on http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/group___mixer.html#ga5d17a7d0e70b4c198fcf9d23e6b8514 2) You could create a debuggable version (e.g. compile KMix yourself, with debugging enabled), and try to get it crashed while running Kmix in a debugger. 3) While running KMix, run another mixer (e.g. alsamixer), and try to change all controls, until KMix crashes. ----------------- As a side note the output you posted looks fine, except for one control: Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Mic' Item0: 'Mic' I have never seen the capability "cenum" before. My guess is that this is "capture enumeration". It is also a very "stupid" enum, as it has only one possible value. I really have not an idea what could be the reason here. It is VERY unlikely that I will be able to find that without the possibility to reproduce it, or to get a usable stack trace. As KDE4 is out for some time I won't fix this in KDE3. Sorry, but I simply see no chane how to do that. Closing unresolved (sigh!). Hmmm, one more bug report like this. Lets reopen. One more idea: Please check whetehr it also happens when you disable the KMix volume restauration? *** Bug 159645 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Hello there. I use kernel 2.6.24-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT This is the output of 'uname -a' ...I`m not using custom kernel compiled from me... I can give to you more info about handling the hole KDEmod-kdemultimedia-kmix...It is strange that the problems reproduce not in every boot up of KDE mod using (kdm)... Hello there.<br>I use kernel 2.6.24-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT<br>This is the output of 'uname -a' ...I`m not using custom kernel compiled from me...<br>I can give to you more info about handling the hole KDEmod-kdemultimedia-kmix...It is strange that the problems reproduce not in every boot up of KDE mod using (kdm)...<br> <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>In a world without walls, who need Windows? When I mute the 'master' in my kMix in all boots kmix is loading well, with no problems ,with no crashes. I`m using 2.6.24-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT kernel...The stock from pacman (ArchLinux)... Strange ,hu ? Very straange. And very interesting that this only happens in Arch / KDEmod. Looks very much like a downstream problem (Downstream => KDEMod). thus I think I can't help you here. I will close this bug report. If you find another distribution with the problem, please let me know. Downstream => KDEMod / Arch |