Comment 43 for bug 9480

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:34:31 -0400
From: Josh Metzler <email address hidden>
To: Riku Voipio <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: 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 Sim=F3 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=20
is, it also affects testing, as testing has the same version of arts as=20
unstable. Has anyone using kernel 2.4 and arts over alsa in testing=20
experienced this bug?

Josh