[PlanetCCRMA] Sound playback freezes system after updating kernel-modules-alsa

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 09:43, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> Hi,
> I did an apt-get upgrade this afternoon, rebooted and tried playing back 
> an .ogg in XMMS - my system hung, no response to ctrl-alt-del, had to 
> reset. I've repeated this several times. I have ALSA as the XMMS output 
> plugin and I suspect all ALSA playback will hang my system.
> I'm running the 2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrma FC3 kernel. I have a 
> soundblaster Live (using EMU10K alsa driver) - this may be related to 
> another post of today  "[PlanetCCRMA] Latest updates = total freeze" by 
> Shayne O'Connor who also has an SB Live.
> 
> I guess one of these upgraded packages (probably alsa-driver or 
> kernel-module-alsa) must be responsible:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 nmt nmt   305350 Apr  7 14:25 
> alsa-driver_1.0.9-0.2.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma_i686.rpm
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 nmt nmt   301434 Apr  7 14:25 
> jack-audio-connection-kit_0.99.36-0.3.cvs.rhfc3.ccrma_i386.rpm
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 nmt nmt 14019454 Apr  7 14:25 
> kernel-module-alsa-2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrma_1.0.9-0.2.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma_i686.rpm
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 nmt nmt     4598 Apr  7 14:25 
> planetccrma-core_2005.04.06-1.rhfc3.ccrma_i686.rpm
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 nmt nmt     5972 Apr  7 14:25 
> rtirq_20050406-1.rhfc3.ccrma_i386.rpm

Shayne hit the same problem. I suspect it should be a patch I added to
rtirq (not Rui's fault!) to fix a corner case. Sigh. I have pulled the
updates temporarily from the repository just in case. The *alsa*
packages should not be the problematic ones (_should_) as they come from
the same source as 1.0.9-0.1.rc1 and were compiled in the same
conditions, the only change should be that /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound is
enabled automatically by default. 

I left a new "fixed" rtirq in the repository from a proper release from
Rui. Could you try upgrading to it? Let me know asap what happens. Just
to check if this is the problem run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/rtirq status"
before the upgrade. 

Sorry for the inconvenience...
-- Fernando