/etc/init.d/alsasound restart from xterm under xfce4 takes out the whole xfce panel Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start system with alsa , start xfce4 with mixer on panel 2.open xterm and run /etc/init.d/alsasound restart 3. Actual Results: poof ! No more xcfe-panel. Expected Results: xfce-mixer becomes inoperable / greyed-out but panel remains funtional.
Wether it make sense to restart this boot service or not: Can confirm this for: - xfce4-mixer-4.2.0 - xfce4-mixer-4.2.1 and corresponding xfce4-panel's The underlying reason seams to be that "/dev/mixer" gets poll()"ed", and during restart invalid => SIGKILL
You may have this configured as a boot service but that is your choice nothing to do with the software. And it does make sense sometimes restart a service, and this should be possible without this sort of collateral dammage. Thanks anyway for you good technical input to this bug report.
I have filled in an upstream bugreport: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935
i noticed this bug with amarok (everytime a new song gets/is selected)
Confirmed on Xfce-4.2.2 This happens even if xfce4-mixer isn't started (not attached to panel)
I'm closing this as it's a known upstream problem
RESOLVED UPSTREAM it's known and recognised upstream, I dont see the solution. If it is RESOLVED UPSTREAM please post details. I opened a bug "upstream" on this and have not had any notification of a resolution. Thx.
RESOLVED UPSTREAM means it's an issue that we can't deal with (ie it is beyond our skills to fix), and it's up to upstream to fix it.
*** Bug 251216 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
