[ATrpms-users] alsaconf crashes system

[M. Barnabas Luntzel]

On Jun 17, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:

> 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).


it was working when I went to sleep, it was broken when I woke up, so  
I started tweaking things and upgrading which is what you see above.

anyway I have rebooted a bunch of times, mostly due to the system  
lockup. I always leave older kernels on the system for the reasons  
you outline. I just went back to 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4, which  
works...later kernels just crash and burn. so I'll stick with this  
unless there is some way I can troubleshoot the 2115 kernels.