If gkrellm (app-admin/gkrellm) is running with the gkrellm-volume plugin (x11-plugins/gkrellm-volume) enabled, gkrellm will crash if '/etc/init.d/alsasound stop' is run. It will also crash with '/etc/init.d/alsasound restart.' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start gkrellm2 2. Enable the gkrellm-volume plugin 3. Run '/etc/init.d/alsasound stop' Actual Results: gkrellm2 dies. Expected Results: gkrellm2 should keep on running, maybe even make the volume controls 'disappear' from the gkrellm window, like how the File systems show up when mounted then disappear when unmounted or how the net interface graph will disappear if the interface is disabled (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop) for example. Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -O2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" 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="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X alsa avi cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gtk2 imlib jabber java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls offensive
*** Bug 55998 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In hindsight... this is probably a problem to be fixed upstream, no?
Not a Gentoo-specific bug, marking UPSTREAM.