Bug 304629

Summary:	media-libs/alsa-libs leaks FDs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	James Brown <Roguelazer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo ALSA team <alsa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/451893
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch from LaunchPad

Description James Brown 2010-02-11 20:59:43 UTC

alsa-lib has a bug (fixed in the latest HEAD, apparently) which causes it to leak FDs sometimes. This leads to PulseAudio (and possibly other apps?) hanging. The Ubuntu folks at the referenced URL debugged it and backported the patch from HEAD. Their patch applies cleanly against our 1.0.22 ebuild and seems to fix the problem. Any chance we could push their patch into portage?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 James Brown 2010-02-11 21:00:29 UTC

Created attachment 219279 [details, diff]
Patch from LaunchPad

Attaching patch from Ubuntu folks

Comment 2 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-02-12 16:10:04 UTC

+*alsa-lib-1.0.22-r1 (12 Feb 2010)
+
+  12 Feb 2010; <chainsaw@gentoo.org> +alsa-lib-1.0.22-r1.ebuild,
+  +files/alsa-lib-1.0.22-fd-leak.patch:
+  Apply patch from Daniel T Chen (Ubuntu) to avoid a file-descriptor leak.
+  It can be triggered by PulseAudio. With thanks to James Brown for
+  identifying the required patch. Closes bug #304629.