Package: timidity-daemon Version: 2.13.2-37 Severity: normal I just discovered this bug in testing. At boot, timidity failed to start as it used to, and I tracked this down to speech-dispatcher (version 0.6.7-8) keeping the ALSA sound device busy. Here is an example on how to reproduce the problem, by first stopping timidity, then starting speech-dispatcher and last calling start-stop-daemon the same way the init.d script is calling it, to get the messages suppressed during boot:
r...@tjener:~# /etc/init.d/timidity stop * Stopping TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation... [ ok ] r...@tjener:~# /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start * Starting Speech Dispatcher speech-dispatcher [Mon May 17 07:56:29 2010 : 126858] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.6.7 starting [Mon May 17 07:56:29 2010 : 127170] speechd: Directory .speech-dispatcher not found in home [ ok ] r...@tjener:~# fuser -v /dev/snd/pcmC0D* USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: speech-dispatcher 6833 F...m sd_espeak r...@tjener:~# start-stop-daemon --start --chuid timidity --quiet --exec /usr/bin/timidity --pidfile /var/run/timidity/timidity.pid -- -Os -iAD r...@tjener:~# Can't open pcm device 'default'. Couldn't open ALSA pcm device (`s') r...@tjener:~# -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages timidity-daemon depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii timidity 2.13.2-37 Software sound renderer (MIDI sequ timidity-daemon recommends no packages. timidity-daemon suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org