Just realised that xfmedia doesn't work anymore. After I start it from CLI, this show up: $ xfmedia Using netbios name BOTYKAI-ZSOLT. Using workgroup BOSS. Then it hangs. $ ps aux | grep xfmedia bzs 28316 17.0 0.0 0 0 pts/1 Zl+ 21:49 0:00 [xfmedia] <defunct> bzs 28319 0.0 5.3 34844 11920 ? Ss 21:49 0:00 xfmedia bzs 28321 0.0 0.2 1876 592 pts/2 S+ 21:49 0:00 grep xfmedi I tried to clear its config and cache files, reemerged, tried the-not-in-portage 0.7.1 version, but it's the same. I'll attach a gzipped strace output. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. $ sudo emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.11-ck3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-ck3 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 18 2005, 09:47:46)] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages noinfo sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://192.168.5.144:13579/ http://192.168.5.138:13579/ http://intranet.online.hu/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://gentoo.mirror.icd.hu/ http://gentoo.math.bme.hu/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="hu_HU.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups curl directfb emboss encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jikes jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb usepackagedmakefiles xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_en linguas_hu" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Created attachment 55055 [details] xfmedia gzipped strace output
I had recognised that it's related to alsa-lib 1.0.8 so after upgrading to alsa-lib-1.0.9_rc2 it just worked again. Maybe You should add alsa-lib-1.0.9_rc2 as dependency?
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