* Guy Roussin [120126 09:02 +0100]: > Hi, > > Thank you Elimar for the rapid answer > > >>$ LANG=C ; alsamixer > >>Segmentation fault > >> > >>And this line in dmesg : > >>Jan 25 20:19:05 pcplat53 kernel: [ 273.757100] alsamixer[3014] general > >>protection ip:7f1b8c903fd0 sp:7fffa61e3c80 error:0 in > >>libasound.so.2.0.0[7f1b8c8ba000+eb000] > > > >Hmm, this looks more like a hardware failure.... > >Did this happens within X? Try to reinstall alsa-utils. Are there > >more applications which give a segfault? Defect RAM? > I reinstall alsa-utils and libasound2 but i get the same error. > This is the only error i see in dmesg. > I test the memory for half an hour with Dell tools from the laptop > bios (latitude e6420) but no ram errors. > When i run alsamixer with strace the last access file is > /var/run/gdm3/auth-for-guy-IhSTSE/database > > I notice that after "/etc/init.d/gdm3 stop", alsamixer > works fine in a console.
So it looks like problems with gnome or other wm's. This isn't a bug in alsamixer. Could you please test some other ncurses applications like lynx-cur speedometer? Elimar -- Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
