When playing mp3s with media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r9 using the ALSA plug-in the first file started is OK, but xmms hangs at the second mp3. In the terminal xmms was started in I get the message: Message: alsa mixer timed out when aborting xmms with Ctrl-C in the terminal. This only happens if I force the second file to be played by a double-click in the playlist or by hitting "B" on the keyboard. If the first file is fully played and xmms changes to the next it works well, too. I'm using ck-sources-2.6.8.1-r8 Using the OSS plug-in which is using OSS-emulation then, I guess, works well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start xmms 2. Play first file 3. "Force" second file to play Actual Results: xmms hangs Expected Results: Should not hang * media-sound/alsa-utils Latest version installed: 1.0.6 * media-sound/alsa-headers Latest version installed: 1.0.6a * media-libs/alsa-lib Latest version installed: 1.0.6 # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041021-r0, 2.6.8 -ck8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-ck8 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.5 distcc 2.18 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -ftracer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2 /share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown / usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/s hare/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/t ex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslin gen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/L inux/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 3dnowex X aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm ared avi berkdb bitmap-fonts blender-game bonobo bootsplash bzlib cdparanoia cdr clanVoice crypt cups dba dedicated dga divx4linux doc dvd encode escreen f77 fbcon foomaticdb f reetype gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mailwrapper mbox mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mpeg mysql ncurses net nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime radeon readline rtc ruby samba sdl session silverxp slang sockets spell spl sse ssl stencil-buffer svga tcltk t cpd tetex tokenizer truetype usb videos wxwindows x86 xchattext xfs xml xml2 xmm s xpm xsl xv zlib"
what mp3 input plugin are youu using? If you recompile xmms using CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe", does that correct the problem?
MP3-Plug-In is libmpg123.so Recompiling with CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" did not solve this issue. I just noticed that I had an update to mpg123 in the last days from version 0.59r-r2 to 0.59s-r6, if it helps.
media-sound/mpg123 isn't used by xmms's libmpg123... I can't reproduce this bug.
I've recompiled it another time with the restrictive flags and removed my .xmms config directory. Then I started xmms. The preferences showed that libOSS was used. Everything worked fine. The I changed the used lib to libALSA and it crashed when choosing the second file by mouse click. I guess, that it has something to do with the initialization of ALSA xmms does: - I guess, when I file is played and it ends xmms does not close ALSA and reopen it for the next file in the playlist, but leaves ALSA opened - But when I click on a file explicitly I guess xmms closes ALSA and then the re-opening fails. This is only a guess about what I could determine: change from one file to the next when the first ended "naturally" does not crash xmms, explicitly starting the next file via a click, the key "B" or "X" crashes xmms. I will now check if downgrades make any difference ...
I tried the various versions still in the portage tree and 1.2.10-r7 whose ebuild I downloaded from your CVS. 1.2.10-r7 was the version that definitely worked before the update to 1.2.10-r9 . And here is the quite surprising result: all of these versions crash when doing the things I descibed above. So I ckecked if any of the dependencies of xmms had been upgraded in the past 2 weeks. But none of them was upgraded. So I guess, it is an upgrade to a package that is not directly related to xmms but needed. Does such a package exist? I've recompiled 1.2.10-r9 for so many times now, that I think I can exclude any library / linking problems or something like that. I do not know how I can help you further since I've tried everything that IMO could solve this issue. Can you tell me what I can try now?
I still insist on the fact that it is an error in the libalsa of xmms . I get this error only and _only if_ I use libalsa. liboss works well. Also I insist on the fact that this error has a reason outside the xmms package since it now also occurs in versions that worked before. I can say that it is also independent of the kernel version since it does not work under 2.6.9-ck2 now, too.
can youu go back to a kernel that you know it was working under? Can you downgrade your alsa-lib version? What sound card do you have? This sounds like it's not an xmms problem because you say that re-emerging the old xmms version (which worked) nolonger works. I'm leaning more towards an alsa-lib bug. Can you please get me a backtrace: 1) Place this at the end of make.conf: # # Debug options # CFLAGS="-pipe -g" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" USE="${USE} debug" FEATURES="${FEATURES} nostrip keeptemp keepwork" 2) emerge -v alsa-lib xmms 3) gdb xmms gdb) run <crash it> gdb) bt --Jeremy
oh wait... i just saw that youu said it hangs, not crashes... so edit that as: 3) run 'xmms' 4) cause it to hang 5) run 'gdb xmms <process ID>' gdb) bt gdb) n gdb) n gdb) n gdb) n gdb) n gdb) n gdb) n gdb) n Keep doing 'n' until it reveals the loop that it's hanging in.
Created attachment 43466 [details] Backtrace of a xmms hang I've made the backtrace. See attachment.
I forgot to add: the kernel I was using when it worked was the abovementioned ck-sources-2.6.8.1-r8 . Now it does not work with this kernel.
ok, what happens if you disable mmap in alsa?
Sry for the late answer but I've been (too) busy the last days ... When I disable mmap it works better, i. e. no hangups, BUT then xmms crashes randomly with this error message: $ xmms ALSA lib pcm.c:824:(snd_pcm_sw_params) snd_pcm_sw_params: params->avail_min problem for start_threshold xmms: pcm.c:2094: snd_pcm_wait: Assertion `err == 1' failed. Killed Is a backtrace of this crash needed?
yes, please... and what sound card do you have?
Created attachment 43931 [details] GDB Backtrace of xmms crash The backtrace of the crash described above. This time it crashed at the 3rd mp3 but I had also tests where it crashed at the ~20th. HTH
Just forgotton: I have a VIA Sound-Chip onBoard (Realtek AC97 5.1)
Comment on attachment 43931 [details] GDB Backtrace of xmms crash don't forget to choose the corect mime type
what version of alsa-lib do you have? Can you try other versions of alsa-lib to see if that corrects the problem?
I'm using alsa-lib version 1.0.6 and I tried 1.0.5-r3 and 1.0.5 . None of them solved it. Unfortunately I wasn't able to compile any of the older versions.
can you please try alsa-lib-1.0.7... this is a frustrating one...
i'm having the same issues # strace xmms poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}], 3, 9) = 0 gettimeofday({1101401062, 952316}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1101401062, 952436}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1101401062, 952543}, NULL) = 0 write(3, "\224\3\n\0\26\0\240\2-\0\240\2\0\6@\0\0\4\20\0L\0\20\0"..., 88) = 88 read(3, 0xbffff050, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [3]) read(3, "\1\1\356F\0\0\0\0\26\0\240\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\31\0\0\0\220"..., 32) = 32 gettimeofday({1101401062, 953330}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}], 3, 8) = 1 gettimeofday({1101401062, 959915}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [32]) = 0 read(3, "\5\1\356Fs{\272\0F\0\0\0\26\0\240\2\0\0\0\0\327\3a\0y\0"..., 32) = 32 write(3, "\33\3\2\0\0\0\0\0+\0\1\0", 12) = 12 read(3, "\1\1\360F\0\0\0\0\26\0\240\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\31\0\0\0\220"..., 32) = 32 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0 rt_sigsuspend([] <unfinished ...> Message: alsa mixer timed out Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x46fd)! seems to be alsa related... # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org 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="X acpi aim alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts blender-game cdr crypt dba directfb divx4linux dvd edl encode ethereal f77 fam fbcon flac flash fmod fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gmail gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib javascript jit jpeg kadu-modules kadu-voice kde koffice-plugin libcaca libg++ libwww mad mikmod ming mmx mng monkey mono motif mozcalendar mozdevelop mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nethack network offensive oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcap pcmcia pdf pdflib perl php png pnp python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl stroke tcltk tcpd threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts uptimed userlocales videos wifi wsconvert x86 xchatdccserver xml2 xmms xosd xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" # emerge alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-utils -pv These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.7 -debug -doc -oss 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.7 -doc -jack -static 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.7 0 kB im using 1.0.7 alsa and its still broken... same as the guy above, everytime i press next...my asoundrc looks like: $ cat .asoundrc pcm.intel8x0-hw { type hw card 0 } ctl.intel8x0-hw { type hw card 0 } pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm intel8x0 } pcm.intel8x0 { type dmix ipc_key 1234567 slave { pcm intel8x0-hw period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 8192 rate 48000 } } and i dont use alsa-oss or oss at all
Glad to see that I'm not the only one ... even if this is worse for the one trying to resolve this bug :/ alsa-1.0.7 didn't solve this for me either. I also remembered that I switched to gcc 3.4.3 in the recent past: so I switched back to 3.3.4 and compiled alsa-headers, alsa-lib, alsa-utils and xmms with the old gcc version but obviously that wasn't the solution either. I still insist that it is a problem with xmms and/or its implementation (although I can't understand why no version is working any longer) since mplayer with alsa is working perfectly here. Is there any other thing I can do?
hmm... i wonder if it's dmix related then... You both have different cards, so it's probably not the driver level (especially if oss emulation support works (which bypasses your dmix setup)... Can you try disabling dmix in yor asoundrc?
ok i'll try it after disabling dmix...after my sound start working again...eh heh... bug 72490 ...so yea, my alsa is dead and down for the count at the moment but i believe xmms still froze even before i created the dmix file =/
Sry, but I habe no asoundrc?! Where should it be? How can I create it? Do I have to create it?
the ~/.asoundrc is only for multiple programs to use the sound card at once instead of waiting in line or being denied access when another app is outputting...its not needed but is more natural that more app's play sounds simultaneously, in my opinion =P well let me see if i can get to WORK again then i'll see about this bug lol
so... was this related to dmix?
i have no clue. the gentoo partition is long gone. :/
So, please somebody tells me how I can test whether its dmix related or not. I can test it then.
does it happen when you don't use dmix?
I've absolutely no idea how I can find out if I use dmix and how I can enable/disable it ...
Then you probably don't use it ;) Ok, so then to summarize what I think is going on... please correct me: changing alsa versions doesn't fix the problem changing xmms versions doesn't fix the problem changing compiler versions doesn't fix the problem So unless I can get something reproducible, there's nothing I can do here...
bumping back to sound@
What shall I say? The error is gone here. I cannot say what caused it to disappear. So if noone else is having this problem we can close this bug, right?
closing then... if it happens again, please reopen
