Bug 42781 – xmms alsa plugin seg faults volume

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description postmodern 2004-02-24 11:32:37 UTC]

When changing the volume in xmms while using the alsa plugin.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run xmms
2. make sure xmms-alsa plugin is used

Actual Results:  
SEG FAULT

Expected Results:  
changed the PCM asla mixer level accordingly

[Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-24 12:21:25 UTC]

please provide more info,

What version of xmms?  What version of alsa?  Provide the output of 'emerge info'.

[Comment 2 postmodern 2004-02-24 13:04:48 UTC]

kernel: 2.6.2-gentoo-r2
alsa-utils: 0.9.8
alsa-lib: 0.9.8
xmms-alsa: 0.9.12
xmms: 1.2.8

[Comment 3 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-24 14:35:12 UTC]

unmerge xmms-alsa and re-emerge xmms.

[Comment 4 postmodern 2004-02-24 16:11:27 UTC]

i unmerge alsa-xmms and re-emerged xmms. this did not resolve the error.

[Comment 5 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-25 23:38:52 UTC]

Please provide the output of 'emerge info'.  Without it, we can't start to debug your problem as it works fine for me.

Can you try a 2.6.3 kernel or just emerge alsa-drivers-1.0.2c (if you configured your kernel to use sound as modules...)

[Comment 6 postmodern 2004-02-26 13:54:25 UTC]

I reinstalled with 2.6.3 and the error still persists. Also I configured alsa in the kernel as builtin so I'm not using alsa-driver.

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r2 x86_64 4
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa amd64 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod motif mozilla mpeg multilib ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 7 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-26 15:40:45 UTC]

Ok... does xmms crash when you use the OSS output plugin?

[Comment 8 postmodern 2004-02-26 15:44:27 UTC]

Negative. I actually use the oss plugin with alsa/oss compatibility as a work around for this bug. Nice question.

[Comment 9 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-26 15:55:22 UTC]

great... ok... then can you try updating to alsa-lib-1.0.2 to see if it's still in the latest version... hopefully the alsa guys fixed it...

Are you having problems playing the song from mpg123, ogg123, or aplay?

[Comment 10 postmodern 2004-02-26 16:14:14 UTC]

Well the problem was not fixed in the new alsa-lib. Aplayer and mpg123 have some corruption bug in them which will bork the audio output. Ogg123 works flawlessly.

[Comment 11 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-26 16:22:30 UTC]

This really seems like a bug upstream... I think it might be best if you worked with the guys at alsa to get this straightend out... since it affects xmms, mpg123, and aplay, i assume it's a problem with alsa rather than the individual packages...

[Comment 12 postmodern 2004-02-26 16:26:41 UTC]

excellent. Thanks for your time.