Description of problem: Audacity will not record more than 1 second of sound. Appears to cause a bug in the kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): audacity-nonfree-1.3.4-0.7.20080123cvs.lvn9.i386 (I have noticed that the older 1.3.2-beta version that I also have installed... does not appear to have this issue.) alsa: rpm -qa | grep alsa alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc9.i386 alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.4.rc1.fc9.2.i386 alsa-tools-1.0.16-1.fc9.i386 alsa-utils-1.0.16-2.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Everytime I use Audacity Steps to Reproduce: Not 100% sure... but 1. Run Audacity 2. Edit->Preferences->Quality-> Change to 96000 3. Attempt to record a track. 4. Stop the track anytime after 2 seconds 5. Play the track These are the steps I've produced this bug with. Actual results: Audacity does not appear to record more than 1 second of sound. Fedora pops up an alert saying "Your system had a kernel failure". Audacity appears to still function... though you still cannot record more than 1 second of sound. dmesg reveals muliple messages of: "ALSA sound/core/pcm_lib.c:154: BUG: stream = 0, pos = 0x2d41, buffer size = 0x12c0, period size = 0x4b0" Expected results: Audacity actually recording a track. Additional info: In case it's relevant... here is my lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge 00:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05) 00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 05) 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UniChrome Pro IGP (rev 01)
I've recently noticed that this bug seems to cause slow response in KDE/GNOME. Haven't nailed it down to anything specific... just an overall decrease in performance after this bug occurs. Lyos Gemini Norezel
Suggest directing this to ALSA and/or Audacity.
Bug is assigned to the ALSA maintainer.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 443537 ***