[nas] No love (could not create audio connection block info when starting)

Paul England pengland at cmtkg.com
Wed Sep 15 17:59:43 MDT 2004


Okay, I did get a  shot at this this morning.
Arts is definitely not running, but I still get "device busy".  I think 
the key is finding out what's hogging the device.

> I'm not sure, but it has played the sound when Arts was off.  Anyways, 
> I've not gotten a chance ot play with this since then, as the user has 
> been hogging his computer. :)   I could've sworn I disabled Arts 
> before my last attempt, but sure enough, it was running after checking 
> a few things.  I might get a stab at it before the week is out.
>
> Thanks for everyone's help thus far
>
> Paul
>
>>     Is the rh applet merely sending it's audio to 
>> esound/artsd/whatever rather than to the device directly?  If so, and 
>> one of those is the culprit holding the device open, then yes, that 
>> would work would it not? :)
>>
>>     try running strace on nasd when this happens.. something like:
>>
>>     strace -o/tmp/out nasd -aa -v -d 99
>>
>>     Then see if anything interesting is in /tmp/out.
>>
>>>
>>> The only thing consistent is when I run arts :x -aa,
>>
>>
>>                                           ^^^^
>>
>>     nasd you mean?
>>
>>> /tmp/.sockets/audiox will be created, meaning I can't use that port 
>>> anymore.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Why?  as long as another process (ie: another nasd) isn't bound 
>> to that socket, the new nasd will just re-use it...  Otherwise, if it 
>> is bound to someone else, you will get something like an 'address 
>> already in use' error.
>>
>>     BTW... What version of NAS are you running?
>> [...]
>>
>>
>




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