Description of problem: esd failes to initialize IPC shared memory. This is a tail of strace esd log: open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = 5 ioctl(5, USBDEVFS_CONTROL, 0xbf833634) = 0 ioctl(5, UI_DEV_CREATE, 0xbf833610) = 0 close(5) = 0 semget(2037514327, 1, IPC_CREAT|0600) = 196608 semop(196608, 0xbf833bde, 2) = 0 shmget(323539665, 384, IPC_CREAT|0600) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) write(2, "ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:851:(snd_pcm"..., 44ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:851:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) ) = 44 write(2, "unable to create IPC shm instanc"..., 33unable to create IPC shm instance) = 33 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 shmdt(0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) unlink("/tmp/.esd/socket") = 0 rmdir("/tmp/.esd") = 0 exit_group(2) = ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): esound-0.2.36-2.2.1 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just launch esd Actual results: Esd either finishes shortly or just sits there in semop() forever. Expected results: esd should run and do its job. Additional info: There are chances this problem is dealt with kernel (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686) and/or architecture (the CPU is Pentium III (Coppermine)) as some other applications (namely firefox) come accross the same problem accidentally.
Looks like a problem setting up the shared memory to use ALSA's dmix. Reassigning to alsa-lib.
please attach /root/scssound.log (it's generated by system-config-soundcard)
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> > We strongly encourage you to upgrade to a current Fedora release. > To my regret I cannot upgrade to a later Fedora release as since Fedora 7 PATA disks are always treated as SCSI disks and SCSI disks cannot contain more than 15 partitions, while I do have more than twenty of them. It seems I should have to switch to some other Linux distribution.
Well, we're not going to fix any bug in FC5. Closing.