[ATrpms-users] alsaconf crashes system

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 09:52:29AM -0700, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote:
> 
> On Jun 17, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:24:33AM -0700, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote:
> >> weird thing happened this morning. the sound was mysteriously not
> >> working, so I run alsaconf. the system completely freezes and I must
> >> hard boot it to get it to come back. i can reproduce this every time.
> >> also reloading alsa from init causes the crash.
> >
> > What where the changes that caused this? E.g. what did you do this
> > morning or yesterday that seized your sound?
> >
> > rpm -qa --last | grep -E '(16|17) Jun 2006'
> >
> > should give you a list of new installed packages in the last two days
> > if this should be the issue.
> 
> alsa-utils-1.0.10-19.rhfc4.at                 Sat 17 Jun 2006  
> 06:59:53 AM PDT
> alsa-driver-1.0.11-47.rhfc4.at                Sat 17 Jun 2006  
> 06:58:33 AM PDT
> alsa-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-1.0.11-47.rhfc4.at Sat  
> 17 Jun 2006 06:58:12 AM PDT
> lirc-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-0.8.1- 
> cvs20060325_58.rhfc4.at Sat 17 Jun 2006 06:11:51 AM PDT
> ivtv-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-0.8-114.rhfc4.at Sat 17  
> Jun 2006 06:11:23 AM PDT
> video4linux- 
> kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-20060528-73.rhfc4.at Sat 17  
> Jun 2006 06:11:20 AM PDT
> nvidia-graphics8756- 
> kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-1.0_8756-72.rhfc4.at Sat 17  
> Jun 2006 06:10:13 AM PDT
> kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2 Sat 17 Jun 2006  
> 05:05:27 AM PDT
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2    Sat 17 Jun 2006  
> 05:05:02 AM PDT

Well, it looks like you have been upgrading various parts of your box
today for almost two hours including the kernel. So it's not really
"sound mysteriously not working". :)

I would check the following:

o Did you reboot after adding kmdls, to allow them to replace the
  running ones?
o Does booting back to the previous kernel and kmdls restore sound?

kernel and kmdls are designed in such a way that you can always step
back to the previous working configuration (unless you have removed
the old kernel package).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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