Ubuntu
randomsound package

No sound after randomsound is started

Bug #492054 reported by David Marín
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
randomsound (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned
Declined for Lucid by Sebastien Bacher
Declined for Maverick by Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

Binary package hint: randomsound

Since I upgraded to karmic, when randomsound is started, sound doesn't work in my system.

Hardware tab in Sound preferences windows shows no sound devices.

After stopping randomsound, everything returns to normality, sound works again, and Hardware tab in Sound preferences window shows my sound device.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 3 20:14:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: randomsound 0.2-4
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: randomsound
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64

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David Marín (davefx) wrote :
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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

This symptom is due to random sound grabbing the raw hw:, which blocks for nearly all modern sound devices driven by ALSA due to lack of support for multiopen.

Changed in randomsound (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Do you have an /etc/asound.conf or/and ~/.asoundrc* ? If so, please attach its/their contents.

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A.Kromic (akromic) wrote :

i have exactly the same problem - randomsound prevents pulseaudio from detecting the sound device. Here is what happens:

% sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
                                USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: root 2010 F.... arecord
                                 arny 2591 F.... audacious
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: root 2010 F...m arecord
/dev/snd/seq: timidity 2810 F.... timidity
/dev/snd/timer: root 2010 f.... arecord

% sudo apt-get remove randomsound
...
% sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
                                 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: arny 2402 F.... pulseaudio
                                 arny 2591 F.... audacious
/dev/snd/seq: timidity 2810 F.... timidity

(arecord is used by randomsound)

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GDR! (gdr.name) wrote :

I don't think this is happening any more, there's a different problem instead: #590780 - but this one doesn't happen (to me) in 14.04.

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