On a Gentoo system, when restarting or stopping /etc/init.d/alsasound it kills standalone mixer or the panel. Seams that it poll()'s from /dev/mixer, and unloading alsa then kills that. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. xfce4-mixer & 2. su 3. /etc/init.d/alsasound stop Actual Results: App killed (get
There's a thread about this in the gentoo forums. You're not the only one. Killing alsa also seems to kill sound until you exit xfce. :( http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2523915.html#2523915
(In reply to comment #1) > There's a thread about this in the gentoo forums. You're not the only one. > Killing alsa also seems to kill sound until you exit xfce. :( > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2523915.html#2523915 Correction: killing alsa does not require a desktop restart to get sound back. I wasn't in the "audio" group... adding me to that group fixed it. Restarting the desktop was setting permissions to "me,audio" on /dev/dsp. Stop/start also sets premissions to "root,audio". However, stopping alsa still kills the panel, even with no mixer on the panel.
Bug not fixed in 4.2.2 even if I start xfce4 as user I see: 13067 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 18:38 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp stopping alsasound on Gentoo removes that device and crashes the panel
xface: is the backtrace the same ?
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