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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:02:55 +0200
From: Ruben van Staveren <ruben@verweg.com>
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Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Broken sound with 4.4-RC
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:24:46PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > I found the source of this jar.
> > I'he installed 'gkrellm' from ports.
> > It's installed as root:kmem with SUID bit (no SGID, however).
> > Running gkrellm while audio playback produces sound breakage.
> > The solution is removing SUID bit from gkrellm binary.
> > All metallic effects have disappeared now.
> 
> There have been multiple reports of gkrellm causing SMP systems to
> freeze - more accurately, gkrellm plugins cause this to
> happen. Which prompts me to ask if you are running SMP, and if you
> have any gkrellm plugins running.
> 
> FWIW, if you define WITHOUT_SENSOR when you install gkrellm, it will
> not turn on the SUID bit on the binary.
> 
> 	<mike

Shouldn't gkrellm be forbidden in the ports collection until it is really
reliable again ?
It will save some spurious SMP/sound/whatever lockup reports in -stable for
sure.

Regards,
	Ruben

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