On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:55:15PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Perfect application for strace. Use: > > strace -o LOG.txt kaffeine > > Wait until you see kaffeine issue "device is busy" and then kill kaffeine. > > Load up the file LOG.txt with an editor. Do a search for "device is busy". > There should be an open() statement somewhere before the error message is > printed. Probably not too far away, in fact. > > That should tell you not only what device file kaffeine attempted to open, > but also why it couldn't open it.
Excellent idea ! I'm ashamed I didn't think of it. Well, preliminary results: - no sign of the error msg in the strace log, although I could see that an alsa device was repeatedly opened/closed successfully: /dev/snd/controlC0 - ran kaffeine with verbose output and found some promising msgs: audio_alsa_out: pcm hw_params failed: Invalid argument audio_out: open failed! I'll delve more into this before I bother you again. If (when) I discover the problem, I'll post it back. Once again, thanks ! Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
