From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 Galeon/1.3.14 Description of problem: After working fine for a little while, suddenly /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p shows up as "busy". The output from, say, `ogg123` is: ####################################################################### ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1056:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy === Could not load default driver and no driver specified in config file. Exiting. ####################################################################### This problem never happened when I was using FC1 with my own built alsa-lib + kernel 2.6.6 All audio devices (even OSS emulation through ALSA) stop working. It seems as of now that a reboot is the only fix (since I have ALSA built into my kernel). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): alsa-lib-1.0.3a-2 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Just leaving the machine idle for a bit (sometimes as little as 12 hours) causes this to happen. I can't intentionally reproduce it. Additional info:
Well, the problem seemed to be with `ogg123` trying to play a OGG file with sampling rate of 11025Hz. This sound file is the sound that's played when someone on my Buddy List (in GAIM) comes online. ogg123 wouldn't crash, it would just lock up. After 32 people came online (throughout the day), that's what caused the problem. As long as < 32 instances of this ogg123 were running, everything was fine. But as soon as the 32nd copy of ogg123 came into being, I got the above error when trying to use ogg123 again. My sound card is a SB Live. It seems that the bug is with ogg123 (because it can't play these 11025Hz sampled OGG's). This bug did not exist before FC2 (because I had no such issues in FC1 and I was using ALSA then as well). Perhaps the ogg123 that came with FC1 didn't use ALSA though. It probably used OSS, and I just emulated OSS with ALSA in my 2.6 kernel.
I am also having this problem, with an nvidia board with onboard audio (MCP2-T - think this is an intel chip). I didn't have any problems with sound in RH9. I have had strange crashes of xmms, while playing ogg files, and grip, while ripping an audio cd, (in both cases, being unable to kill the process but without the process becoming "<defunct>"), in both cases getting this message. Other programs (firefox, for example) seem to crash from time to time with this message too.
Is this problem still actual? What sound device do you use? hw, plughw or default?