Bugzilla Bug 171573

After successful emerge, lasfm fails to start, it instantly returns to the
prompt without giving any hint. gdb failed too. strace however gave a hint that
it is related to trouble with the sound devices:

ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbf8db518) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate
ioctl for device)

I found some issues with the sound devices here (bug #167229) and in the
last.fm forums. But this issue is different in that the application doesn't
even start up in my case.
I'll attach strace output, search for "ioctl". Also, I'll gladly provide
further information or testing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0,
2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2600+
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r3
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache clean confcache distlocks fixpackages
metadata-transfer noinfo parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict
userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="en_US en_GB de_DE en de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/portage"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/own /usr/portage/local/xfce4-svn
/usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/portage/local/layman/musicbrainz"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X a52 alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts
cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr emboss encode
exif fam fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac gdbm gif glitz gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv
isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdexdeltas libg++
lirc lm_sensors mad madwifi matroska midi mikmod mmx mozsvg mp3 mpeg
musicbrainz ncurses network nocardbus nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pcre pdf pic png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 readline reflection
samba sasl sdl session spell spl srt sse ssl startup-notification subversion
svg tcpd tetex theora threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb
utf8 v4l visualization vorbis wavpack win32codecs wsconvert x86 xcomposite xine
xinerama xml xml2 xorg xosd xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf zlib"
ALSA_CARDS="via82xx emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare
dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw
multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" CAMERAS="directory,ptp2"
ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad
cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US
en_GB de_DE en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vga"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

I'm using media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.14_rc1 modules.

From lspci: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev
08), my default device (I have an onboard "VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio
Controller (rev 50)" as well)

Created an attachment (id=113875) [details]
strace -f output of lastfm execution

it is also available here: http://rafb.net/p/tZNXVU91.html

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 167229 ***