[ATrpms-users] alsaconf crashes system

[M. Barnabas Luntzel]

I am just lame. Is there something missing from this? yes. alsa-lib.  
maybe I nuked it while intoxicated. in any case, sorry for the noise.  
nice to know that alsaconf will crash the box in the absence of alsa- 
lib, for what thats worth.



[root at toecutter ~]# rpm -qa |grep alsa
alsa-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-1.0.11-47.rhfc4.at
alsa-utils-1.0.10-19.rhfc4.at
alsa-driver-1.0.11-47.rhfc4.at

I'll be off getting my foot out of my mouth...


On Jun 17, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 10:45:31AM -0700, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Are these 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 w/ or w/o cubbi_swsusp2? W/o cubbi is the
> stock package, w/ is the package with swsusp2 patches. Although I
> don't think the cubbi patches may be an issue, it is still important
> to know what broke, 2111->2115 or stock kernel -> cubbi.
>
> Please check whether installing 2.6.16-1.2115_FC4 and assorted kmdls
> fix your issue. If yes, it's sumething in the cubbi patches, if not,
> it's something in 2111->2115.
> -- 
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net