Alsa stopped working on my IBM T40 after kernel-2.6.11-gentoo and new alsalib and utils. All modules seem to load properly and all the mixers work but aplay seg faults. strace shows it fails when: open("/dev/snd/timer", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 5 ioctl(5, 0x80045400, 0xbfffdb9c) = 0 ioctl(5, SNDCTL_TMR_START or TCSETS, 0xbfffdb98) = 0 ioctl(5, TIOCSPGRP, 0xbfffdba0) = 0 ioctl(5, TIOCSTI <unfinished ...> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.aplay /usr/share/sounds/question.wav 2.segfault 3. Actual Results: segfault Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.2,dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 19 2005, 17:02:14)] distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.2, 2.3.5 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, 1.9.5 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 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j12" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd emboss encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts userlocales xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
If you also are having a kernel null pointer on dmesg, please see bug #87544, probably is another dupe of that.
I am getting a kernel null pointer so I assume it is a dup of #87544
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87544 ***