[nas] Couple of questions

[Jon Trulson]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Paul England wrote:

> Thanks to everyone for their replies.
> Well, (I guess) it's nice to know that it's not just me. I'll be running the 
> applications in tandem on my machine to see if I can get it to keel-over at 
> the same time as the machine in question. It was not *that* busy 
> yesterday...not near as busy as it's going to be. I'll run it w/ the debug 
> options and see if there's any info.
>
> FYI -- nasd was still running. Just no sound. :(
>

 	How odd...  Strangely I have not seen this issue before.

 	If someone sees this happen (ie: running but no sound), you might 
try an 'strace' on it and see what it is doing when 'trying' to play a 
sound.

> Ciao
> GP
>
>> > Well, I've seen nasd crash once in a while. Most of the time it is still
>> > running but not playing any sounds. I did not look into it yet since it
>> > did not crash too often. All of these crashes occured during "normal
>> > use".
>> 
>> i've seen similar things, but i think i've always decided it was the
>> result of something else using the sound subsystem unbeknownst to nas,
>> and it needed to be re-inited.  of course, now that nasd can share
>> the device, this shouldn't be an issue.  i can't actually remember the
>> last time i saw it.
>> 
>> paul
>> =---------------------
>> paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 34.2 degrees)
>> 
>

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