Bug 143742 – media-sound/alsaplayer crashes playing an .au file

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alejandro Benitez 2006-08-13 00:55:23 UTC]

This bug was fixed in Debian, but it seems not yet in Gentoo.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254730

$ wget http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/english.au
$ alsaplayer english.au
Segmentation fault
$

I'm able to reproduce this bug with other .au files of mine too.

[Comment 1 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2006-08-18 09:30:25 UTC]

masked in package.mask and pending removal on September 15th, 2006

[Comment 2 Alejandro Benitez 2006-08-21 11:26:55 UTC]

media-sound/mpd also is crashing on .au files.
see /var/log/mpd.error.log for details.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-08-21 11:33:24 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> media-sound/mpd also is crashing on .au files.
> see /var/log/mpd.error.log for details.

File a new bug, please. This is not a dump space for stuff that crashes on playing .au files ;)

[Comment 4 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-08-31 08:10:44 UTC]

I cannot play the .au file with alsaplayer even after patching with debian's patchset, it doesn't segfault but it still produces noise instead of whatever it should do.

Not sure about the destiny of alsaplayer just yet :/

[Comment 5 Alejandro Benitez 2006-08-31 08:54:08 UTC]

Ask normalperson at #mpd at Freenode.net. He fixed a very similar bug in MusicPD last week involving .au files. While being fixed, it was mentioned the production of noise too.

[Comment 6 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2006-09-18 22:06:05 UTC]

Punted