Bug 104410

Summary:	The Sound system dies after some time playing
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Alexey Eremenko <al4321>
Component:	Sound	Assignee:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	al4321, anke, ke
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	SUSE Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Alexey Eremenko 2005-08-12 14:18:12 UTC

The sound system dies on my PC after playing 4 or 5 songs encoded as 
Ogg-Vorbis.  
  
In XMMS it tells that me that it can't access my sound hardware,  
while other apps (Amarok, Kaffeine) just hangs.  
  
After clean system restart, I can play another 5 songs before sound dies.  
 
I don't know which component causes such failure, but several are possible to 
cause that: 
SuSe's Yast, AC97/VIA driver, KDE Arts Sound Server, ... 
  
My system:  
OS: SuSE Linux 10.0 BETA1 
CPU: AMD Sempron 2400+ 
Audio: VIA 8237 (AC97 controller) 
Chipset: VIA KM400 
RAM: 1 GB 
Graphics: nVidia GeForce FX 5200 
 
Since I'm pretty much a beginner to SuSE Linux, so I can't isolate the 
problem. 
 
-Please Help !!! 
 
-Fenix*NBK*, 12.aug.2005.

Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2005-08-12 15:08:38 UTC

Try "killall knotify" once.  Looks like a bug of knotify which keeps opening
sound devices and reopen again.

Comment 2 Alexey Eremenko 2005-08-16 19:11:41 UTC

Well, yes !!!  
 
"killall knotify" command solved my problem !!! 
 
However this bug still remains "critical" because it may drive out noobs, like 
myself :)  
 
(from this distro, or even from all Linux distros) <- that's NOT my case! 
 
please fix the problem in BETA2.

Comment 3 Takashi Iwai 2005-08-18 10:02:48 UTC

This one should be fixed.  It might be slipped out from beta2, but already in
STABLE.

Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2005-08-19 09:27:37 UTC

*** Bug 97588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Anke Boernig 2005-08-31 08:31:06 UTC

I'm using beta3 and still have the same problem: After some time, no sound is
available anymore.
It still seems to be a problem of knotify causing problems. 

I restarted knotify from the command line and now see the following error messages:

auto_sink: Could not load polyp
Cannot open client
akode: ALSA fragment-size: 237