Re: [ecasound] 2.5.0 crashing X

--- On Mon, 8/18/08, Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> From: Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen@email-addr-hidden>
> Subject: Re: [ecasound] 2.5.0 crashing X
> To: "Oliver Oli" <oliver.oli+0815@email-addr-hidden>
> Cc: ecasound-list@email-addr-hidden
> Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 12:08 PM
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Oliver Oli wrote:
>
> > anyone experienced ecasound 2.5.0 crashing the X
> server? Happened to
> > me several times when stopping ecasound with CTRL-C.
> with or without
>
> yikes! What kind of chainsetups? Did you use mp3s or oggs?
>
> There was indeed a small change in the ctrl-c handling (to
> fix thread
> cleanup with some recent glibc versions such as
> 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 shipped
> on debian), and this could have some unintended collateral
> damage. But
> crashing X is pretty bad..
>
> Other possible cause would be forked child processes and
> their cleanup
> (which was changed for 2.5.0), but then the bug should not
> occur unless
> you are using mp3/ogg/mikmod/mids.
>
> If others are seeing this as well, reports are welcome (and
> tips about the
> chainsetup that were used). I'll try to reproduce this
> myself...
>
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In my case the command lines were of

export LADSPA_PATH=`pwd`/ladspa; ECASOUND=~/AFSWD/install/ecasound-2.4.6.1/binsh/ecasound;$ECASOUND -d -D -i some_file.flac -eli:1010 -eli:1020 -o alsahw,0,0

variety, the variable part was 'file'.

I.e. not Ogg, mp3, just FLAC.

Regards,
  Sergei.

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