Bug 90250

Summary:	xmms fails to open alsa output plugin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Grzegorz Herman <fyfes>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) <eradicator>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major	CC:	sound
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Grzegorz Herman 2005-04-24 08:24:35 UTC

xmms does not want to play any file, saying: "failed to open audio output: ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin". It does not seem to be a problem with alsa, as alsamixer is working ok, and I can hear the sound coming from line input, so the card is initialized properly too.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run xmms
2. try to play any file
3.

Actual Results:  
error

Expected Results:  
sound played

> emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 30 2005, 12:15:27)]
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-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -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="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://src.gentoo.pl
http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dfx X acl alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps
cdr crypt cscope cups curl dga dvd dvdr emboss encode fam fbcon foomaticdb gcj
gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk2 hal hardenedphp howl imap imlib innodb ipv6 java jpeg
ldap libg++ libwww mad memlimit mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls
nntp nptl nptlonly odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php pic png
postgres postgresql python quicktime readline samba sasl slp socks5 spell sse
ssl tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts ucs2 unicode
vhosts vorbis xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib video_cards_i830"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-25 03:54:56 UTC

Please provide more info.  What versions of alsa-drivers, alsa-lib, xmms, and xmms-alsa do you have.  Can you use 'aplay'?  Did you select the proper output device in the alsa plugin configuration?

Comment 2 Grzegorz Herman 2005-04-25 05:15:55 UTC

I examined the case a bit closer. This is not a bug in any of the packages. The problem was that the permissions on my sound device were wrong - the file should be owned by group 'audio', and it was by a non-existent group #28. The mixer setup was done by a script running as root, so it did not encounter the problem.
I have corrected the permissions and now everything works fine.
Sorry for posting an invalid bug report :)