Upgraded the alsa-lib package from 1.0.7 to 1.0.8 Various sound apps that I tested work fine (mpg123, mplayer) For mpd: The daemon started and stopped fine. WHen I entered a command through mpc (ex. mpc play) it worked fine. While music was playing, mpd was unaccessable, i.e. mpc listall, mpc play, a client for viewing the current song (torsmo) all failed to work. Error for mpc play (for example): problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 A downgrade to alsa-lib-1.0.7 fixed the error Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install alsa-lib-1.0.8 2./etc/init.d/mpd start 3.mpc play 4.mpc Actual Results: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 Expected Results: Given the name/information on current plaing track emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 12 2005, 20:16:51)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" 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="x86 X aalib alsa apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl doc dvd emacs emboss encode fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xinerama xml2 xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
I think this is the problem http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-313030-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-alsalib+emu10k1-start-0.html I should have mentioned I am using a emu10k1 card. Downgrading to alsa-lib 1.0.7 works
the problem is already known, upgrading to 1.0.9_rcX works as well.