| Summary: | Loading Sound Driver Is Halting My Boot Process | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Angel Ortiz <angelm75> |
| Component: | [OLD] Unspecified | Assignee: | Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) <agenkin> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kevin, realdiskdoc, sickness, the_deuce |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 1.2 | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Angel Ortiz
2002-08-24 13:22:39 UTC
hi i'm sickness, proud gentoo user! I've gentoo 1.2 with portage 2.0.27 with alsa 0.9.0_rc2 with kernel 2.4.19-gentoo-r7. booting after the desktop howto leaved my sistem in an hanged state, I can not use even the keyboard. so I rebooted strikeing a lot of CTRL+C *before* the alsasound loading, the system started, then I rc-update removed alsasound and added snd-ens1371 in /etc/modules.autoload. Now the system boots fine, sound works in kde and in winex also with gta3. If I try to launch /etc/init.d/alsasount start it says it's already loaded. Oops, I misreported my Kernel. :o Apologies. It is 2.4.19-xfs. I emerged the vanilla kernel and applied the xfs patch from ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/2.4.19. My filesystems are XFS. /boot is ext2, if that helps shed any light on issues I have found a work around for now. Basically I remove alsasound from bootup and start it manually. rc-update del alsasound boot I have found that lets my system boot. I can then start alsa by /etc/init.d/alsasound start. I then do modprobe snd-mixer-oss modprobe snd-pcm-oss modprobe snd-seq-oss Ans sound works. But if I leave alsasound to startup in the boot level it freezes the system startup. System hardlocks. After much forum searching, and googling I found the following on the http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=9252&highlight=alsasound site I had the same problem yesterday and in fact in the alsasound script locks linux when it does "alsactl -f /etc/asound.conf restore" to restore the mixer settings. It will completely lock the kernel if you execute this command in a shell, so until things get fixed i would recommend to comment this section in the alsasound script I made the change to the script and my system did not lock. Maybe this can be fixed in the ebuild? Or should I just wait for the next release? I noticed that alsa-driver-0.9.0rc3 was released yesterday. Angel: for alsa 0.9 the sound card state is saved in /etc/asound.state, not /etc/asound.conf. You probably have the asaound.conf from the version 0.5, right? Could you delete that file and see whether alsactl restore would still hang your system? It definitely doesn't hang mine. Also, could you both please post the output of the following command: qpkg -I -v | grep alsa (provided you have app-admin/gentoolkit installed). As Requested:
qpkg -I -v | grep alsa
media-sound/alsa-tools-0.9.0_rc1-r1 *
media-sound/alsa-xmms-0.9-r1 *
media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc2 *
media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc2 *
media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_rc2 *
media-libs/alsa-oss-0.9.0_rc1 *
I changed the /etc/init.d/alsasound file as per another workaround that I
dound on the Gentoo Forums. I made the following changes
# restore driver settings
#
if [ -d /proc/asound ]; then
if [ ! -r $asoundcfg ]; then
ewarn "No mixer config in $asoundcfg, you have to unmute your card!"
else
if [ -x $alsactl ]; then
# $alsactl -f $asoundcfg restore
# next section is a work around to enable sound
eerror "Sound Level Restorer disable because of system hang problem!"
amixer set Master 100 unmute
amixer set PCM 100 unmute
# end of workaround
else
eerror -e "ERROR: alsactl not found!"
fi
fi
fi
Arcady I searched my system for aasound.conf. It was not found anywhere on my system. After your post I unmerged alsa and I removed all configs and scripts related to alsa. I then emerge rsync and emerge alsa-driver again. I made sure that I had sound settings saved and rebooted. At first the system did not hang. It booted right up and restored settings. I thought that the problem was solved. It happened again after I shutdown the system overnight I removed alsasound from boot and rebooted. I saved my sound settings again using alsamixer, and I rebooted again and the system worked fine. It seems to be happening when the system comes up after a cold start. Here is the output of the qpkg now that I re-emerged the alsa-driver. qpkg -I -v | grep alsa media-sound/alsa-tools-0.9.0_rc1-r1 * media-sound/alsa-xmms-0.9-r1 * media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc2 * media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc2 * media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_rc2 * media-libs/alsa-oss-0.9.0_rc1 * I guess an inventory of my hardware would help so here goes :) ASUS A7V133 mobo HD attached to on board Promise ATA 100 AMD Thunderbird 1000Mhz proc 512 MB crucial ram Creative Annihilator Ultra (Geforce 2 GTS Ultra) Intel Pro 100 B NIC Creative Ensoniq ES 1371 Western Digital ATA 100 HD Well I think that whatever little gremlin was inhabiting my computer has left for greener pastures. Since I updated this report on Monday I have not had one problem with my bootup. The alsasound has been behaving itself. 4 solid days of no problems :) I shutdown the PC everynight. Every afternoon it has been booting up with no problems. I believe that this bug report can be closed. I wish that I could provide more detail as to what fixed the problem. It seems like a bug that fixed itself :o Heh, why can't all bugs be like that. ;^) Reopening this bug. Below is an email I received from Ryan Nielsen <ryan.nielsen@colorado.edu>. Bug #6985, concerning ALSA freezing the computer when /etc/init.d/alsasound starts needs to be reopened... I'm currently experiencing the bug. ;-> Unfortunately, this does seem to be a very random bug. For a week or so after I loaded gentoo x86 1.2 onto my computer everything concerning ALSA worked fine. Then, maybe after a kernel build or alsa upgrade, it started freezing my computer. Some info: * Gentoo 1.2 x86 * Linux irken 2.4.19-gentoo-r7 #10 SMP Wed Sep 18 21:14:55 MDT 2002 i686 GenuineIntel (NOTE: My computer is a uniproc machine... I have SMP support due to some build problems when I attempted to remove support. I was too lazy/busy at the time to find the problem so I just reenabled it.) * Sound works just fine without the script (alsasound) executing at boot or default init time. I simply have to restore mixer settings. * I don't have a /etc/asound.conf and I have tried removing /etc/asound.state and running 'alsactl restore'. alsactl returns "No state is present for card card0" and *does NOT* freeze my system. I have yet to try rebooting after removing asound.state though. Maybe that was corrupt or something... * qpkg -I -v | grep alsa media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_rc2 * media-sound/alsa-tools-0.9.0_rc1-r1 * media-sound/alsa-xmms-0.9-r1 * media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc2 * media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc2 * * Maybe useful specs: Abit BX133 w/ 600 MHz PIII 512 MB RAM Creative LIVE Value ASUS GeForce 256 Feel free to copy this to the bug. I registered on bugzilla but I don't have permissions to reopen the bug -- I can only confirm. Thanks, Ryan Nielsen I actually just upgraded to Gentoo 1.4_rc1 and the little gremlin came back. I am halting again at that point too on my system. I am at work now but just wanted to point out that it is now happening on a gcc3.2 system as well. I will post the output of qpkg -I -v | grep alsa when I get home later. Well, I just upgraded my kernel from gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r7 to gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r9 and the problem went away. I believe that it might have something to do with the low-latency patches that were present in the r7 kernel but appear to be missing in r9 (well, I can't build low latency support at least). Unfortunately, I cannot test this without going back to r7 which I can't do for at least a week or so. Maybe Angel Ortiz can corroborate this hunch without me having to downgrade. ;-> Also of note, vmware was extremely unstable on the r7 kernel but runs as smooth as glass on r9. Again, the only signifigant difference that I know exists between the kernels is the lack of low latency patches in r9 (maybe there were some other large changes). I'll give it a try when I get home. I don't use the Gentoo sources kernel. I think it is too heavily patched for my tastes. I have a Vanilla kernel that I patched myself with SGI's XFS. Nothing else in there. :) I'll try the gentoo sources r7 kernel, see if it fixes anything. I'll report back with the results. qpkg -I -v | grep alsa media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_rc2 * media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc2 * media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc2 * media-sound/alsa-xmms-0.9.5 * I have spent the past day and a half testing and trying to figure out what is going on. Near as I can tell this is only happening with the ens-1371 alsa module. My card is a Creative ES1371. I tried the gentoo-source kernelr7 but I had other problems. (it would give me kernel panics no matter what I did or did not compile) I then tried a vanilla 2.4.19 kernel that I downloaded from kernel.org and I patched it with sgi's xfs patch for that kernel. I did the unmerge and re-emerge alsa-driver thing and I was getting the same issue upon reboot. It would stop with loading sound module ens-1371. To test a theory that this was related just to this card I popped in my old sound card. It is an S3 Sonic-Vibes pci card. I changed everything in /etc/modules.d/alsa to alias snd-card-0 snd-sonicvibes alias snd-card-1 snd-sonicvibes alias snd-card-2 snd-sonicvibes alias snd-card-3 snd-sonicvibes alias snd-card-4 snd-sonicvibes alias snd-card-5 snd-sonicvibes alias snd-card-6 snd-sonicvibes alias snd-card-7 snd-sonicvibes and I set my volume using alsamixer. I rebooted 10 times checking to verify that sound was working each time. No problems with boot, no errors reported. I then tried the ens-1371 card again and made changes to /etc/modules.d/alsa to reflect the snd-ens1371 card was back in and no problems. Strange. I decided I would try another sound card. I was going to upgrade my sound card anyway so I bought a sound blaster live. I put it in my machine, again change /etc/modules.d/alsa to reflect the snd-emu10k1 driver module. I make changes to my sound, and again I do the 10 reboots, checking to make sure that I have sound each time. No problems. Just to test and see if the problem really is just with the card I put the snd-en1371 card back in, make the changes and reboot. It fails again. Not scientific by any stretch of the imagination but I think the problem may be with the ens1371 driver. The creative es1371 card worked fine in a friends computer (with Redhat 7.3. RH picked it up on boot and it worked no problems), so I believe that it was not a problem with my card in particular. I believe it may be an issue with alsa and the ens-1371 module. Angel, thanks for the follow-up. It looks like both you and Diego both are using the ensoniq 1371 chip, so your theory sounds very plausible. I myself have two Gentoo systems (one with emu10k1 and one with ens1370) and I have been unable to reproduce this bug. May I ask everybody on the CC list to report their soundcard chipsets? Thanks. snd-via8233 on a Aopen AK-333 motherboard. I've got a emu10k1 card here. Just to give an update. I noticed that there are new alsa setup instructions. I followed the instructions on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/alsa-guide.html and thus far I have had no problems. It has been a week (it is a secondary pc) and so far no problems to report. I think that specifying the number of sound cards options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 And limiting the ens1371 module to just snd-card-0 alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371 worked wonders. so far no freezes of lockups on my boot. Does this help anyone else? *** Bug 9948 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I too have experienced the bug. I'm running gentoo 1.4_rc1. I have kernel 2.4.19-r9 and now r10 of the gentoo source. A SoundBlaster Live! on a BE6-II (BX Chipset) PIII 650 I tried both the new and old alsa instructions with no help either way, so I just put the modules in modules.autoload qpkg -I -v | grep alsa media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_rc2 * media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc2 * media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc2 * media-plugins/alsa-xmms-0.9.5 * Can you guys please try the _rc6 ebuilds which were marked stable a few days ago? A few gotchas: any module options like "snd_foo" should be renamed into "foo". For example, "snd_cards_limit=1" becomes "cards_limit=1". Thanks. I installed rc6 the otherday, and alsactl restore has worked everytime since the upgrade. I've rebooted a number of times with the alsasound scripts runnng, and I've also run alsactl restore seperately. Both without any problem. Jason, thanks for replying. I'm going to close this bug, then, If anyone is still experiencing the problem, feel free to reopen. |
