Package: pulseaudio-esound-compat
Version: 0.9.5-7
Severity: important
Begin with no 'pulseaudio' in memory, and '/bin/sh' symlinked to
'/bin/dash'. From an xterm command line, run 'galeon', which calls
'esdcompat', which gives this error:
% galeon
shift: 96: can't shift that many
...so 'pulseaudio' doesn't load.
BTW, I tried other minimalist Bourne shells. Summary:
Shell Error
dash shift: 96: can't shift that many
posh /usr/bin/esd:96: shift: nothing to shift
ksh /usr/bin/esd[96]: shift: nothing to shift
(The above may help others searching for those error messages.)
Of course when the shell is '/bin/bash' it works.
This bug was tested first by symlinking various shells to '/bin/sh'.
To make absolutely sure that 'esdcompat' was the cause, I
set '/bin/sh' to '/bin/dash' then edited the first line of
'/usr/bin/esdcompat' from '/bin/sh' to other shells.
NB: after 'pulseaudio' is loaded, the error won't recur,
regardless of the shell. To reproduce this bug, 'pulseaudio'
shouldn't be running.
Suggested kludge**: have 'esdcompat' call '/bin/bash'. Attached is a
'.diff'.
(**Anybody know what command line parameters 'galeon' calls 'esdcompat'
with? I couldn't get 'strace' to show those.)
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages pulseaudio-esound-compat depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii pulseaudio 0.9.5-7 PulseAudio sound server
pulseaudio-esound-compat recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- /usr/bin/esdcompat 2007-02-19 16:56:57.000000000 -0500
+++ /tmp/esdcompat 2007-03-11 03:04:57.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
# $Id: esdcompat.in 1107 2006-07-19 18:11:12Z lennart $
#
