Bug 5007

Summary:	ALSA sounds eventually goes crazy and locks ps listings
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Adam (adam)
Component:	Sound(ALSA)	Assignee:	Jaroslav Kysela (perex)
Status:	REJECTED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Severity:	high	CC:	bunk, nacc
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.11	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	My current configuration file /var/pub/messages extract (earlier 3 days worth cut out)

Description Adam 2005-08-05 18:40:52 UTC

Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: Unknown
Distribution: Gentoo Linux
Hardware Environment: Custom built, x86 
Software Environment: Gnome environment
Problem Description: Occasionally, sound will stop working.  A "ps ax -H" will
lock as if its trying to resolve something that it can't.  I've noticed that a
particular progam -- Gnome's tetris clone -- causes this to happen far more
often that normal (when it has sound enabled), but this lock is not specific to
gnome's tetris.

Steps to reproduce:
Run a program that plays a good deal of short sound files.

Comment 1 Adam 2005-08-05 18:41:45 UTC

Created attachment 5520 [details]
My current configuration file

Current config file

Comment 2 Adam 2005-08-05 18:43:37 UTC

Created attachment 5521 [details]
/var/pub/messages extract (earlier 3 days worth cut out)

Stuff that looked important -- dmesg, ctrl+alt+sysreq+{T, P, and M}

Comment 3 Nishanth Aravamudan 2005-08-05 19:23:03 UTC

Please try with 2.6.12{,.4} or 2.6.13-rc5.

Thanks,
Nish