From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 11:03:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A3B37B401 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 11:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF0743F85 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 11:03:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h4OI3jV03083; Sat, 24 May 2003 11:03:45 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: Martin Krzysiak , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 11:03:44 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200305241945.11421.cinek@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200305241945.11421.cinek@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305241103.44763.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: xmms fails occasionally X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 18:03:49 -0000 On Saturday 24 May 2003 10:45 am, Martin Krzysiak wrote: > On Saturday 24 May 2003 19:10, Aaron Peterson wrote: > > dunno why. it will finish playing a song occasionally, then beep and > > pop up an error message that says it couldn't find the appropriate > > plugin or the device is busy (audio device i assume). I'm not running > > any other a/v applications to take over the device besides KDE. what > > might possibly cause this phenomena? > > I want to confirm this. I have this problem, too. It occurs after playing > several songs in a row. Then You have to kill -9 xmms because it hangs in > background (even after closing it). The device will be released then, too. > There seems to be an ugly bug somewhere. > > My configuration: FreeBSD-4.8, KDE-3.1 (running without arts), > xmms-1.2.7_3, xmms-kde-3.0.0 (I tried both: packages and ports, same > effect). It isn't just xmms. I have to frequently kill kscd. I kind of wonder if something else isn't wrong with something like arts which is in the middle. On kde-3.1.1, kscd wouldn't even launch. So, things are a little bit better. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html