[ATrpms-users] alsaconf crashes system

[M. Barnabas Luntzel]

I spoke too soon. alsaconf crashes cubbi and no cubbi


On Jun 17, 2006, at 1:14 PM, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote:

> 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
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