Bug 112501 – media-sound/kamix-0.6.5 stable request

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Fredric Johansson 2005-11-14 05:22:41 UTC]

After updating all the alsa-progs to latest stable yesterday the soundmixer
kamix for kde crashes at start for unknown reason.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge alsa-headers alsa-lib
2.restart computer with new alsa
3.start kamix

Actual Results:  
Kamix crashed for unkknown reason

Expected Results:  
kamix starting ok

Found out that there has been significant changes in alsa between latest stable
and previously latest stable which makes both kamix 0.6.1 and 0.6.3 not
starting. I think you should make kamix >=0.6.4 marked as stable or change the
dependses of alsa to =alsa-0.9* or similar.

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-12-18 13:42:25 UTC]

Asking for stable request to arches having kamix stable.

[Comment 2 Hiroki Kobayashi 2006-02-14 05:22:25 UTC]

kamix 0.6.5 was released and well-working as well as 0.6.4.
So please make stable kamix 0.6.5.

[Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-02-21 17:21:20 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Asking for stable request to arches having kamix stable.
> 

Did you miss to cc arch herds by chance?

[Comment 4 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-02-22 03:26:00 UTC]

*Very* likely, sigh -_-

[Comment 5 Chris White (RETIRED) 2006-02-24 05:27:15 UTC]

Stable on x86, put the right version number in the topic :P...

[Comment 6 Chris White (RETIRED) 2006-02-27 08:23:49 UTC]

After marking x86 stable I was testing for amd64 on my box at work.  I thought it was all ok, but then I hit the bug.  From what I can tell it's kamix not handling alsa modules not being loaded properly.  So basically:

1) Don't start alsasound to load the alsa-driver modules
2) Attempt to start kamix
3) It crashes

however

1) /etc/init.d/alsasound start
2) kamix

works.  I found this out because I hadn't added alsasound to default runlevel yet.

[Comment 7 Chris White (RETIRED) 2006-02-27 08:27:32 UTC]

x86 team,

Can someone that has a modular alsa setup verify this as well (I unfortunately don't have one).  If it hits the same thing we'll probably need a different game plan here (and keywords will probably have to be reverted back to ~x86)?

[Comment 8 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-02-27 08:39:56 UTC]

If you try to use anything using alsa _without_ it being loaded, you're asking for trouble.
Depending on the way the software uses alsa (plugin, in-code default, only-way-to-access), it might fail to load the plugin, fallback to other strategies, crash, don't start at all, get stuck..

I don't think this is something simple to get around, really.

[Comment 9 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2006-03-01 12:14:32 UTC]

stable on ppc64

[Comment 10 Joshua Jackson (RETIRED) 2006-03-10 22:06:50 UTC]

appears to have been marked x86

[Comment 11 nixnut (RETIRED) 2006-03-11 09:18:06 UTC]

Marked stable on ppc by hansmi, removing ppc from cc.

[Comment 12 Michael Weyershäuser 2006-06-24 15:10:00 UTC]

Arch tested on AMD64, works perfectly for me, good to go stable.

[Comment 13 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2006-06-25 02:29:33 UTC]

thanks, we're done here