Comment 20 for bug 9480

Revision history for this message
In , Josh Metzler (joshdeb) wrote : Re: Bug#266760: KDE Logout Hang because realtime artsd: a followup

On Saturday 16 October 2004 11:10 am, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:01:45AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > [This is a crosspost to Debian Bug#266760 and KDE Bugs #88401 and
> > #86426, plus the debian-kde mailing list.]
> >
> > - the "culprit" of "root of all evil" seems to be kdeinit_shutdown
> > in /usr/bin/startkde: I'd say the hang is produced when kdeinit
> > (as per kdeinit_shutdown request) tries to shutdown an arts
> > process that is in the middle of playback. the lines in question
> > are:
>
> That would be an arts bug then, right? By adding a sleep 10
> to startkde we would just be working around the bug that artsd
> running on realtime priority deadlocks the system if killed
> while playing back?

If this is an arts bug, then it should be reassigned to arts. And, if it
is, it also affects testing, as testing has the same version of arts as
unstable. Has anyone using kernel 2.4 and arts over alsa in testing
experienced this bug?

Josh