FC4-test2 latest: Sound stops (alsa/xmms/crossfade/arts)

[Wilbur Harvey]

I am using simple XMMS with the MP3 plugin, on an NFORCE4 system with 
kernel 2.6.11-1.1305.
Starting with the last kernel, or the one before, XMMS dies after about 
1-10 minutes of listening. The program is totally dead and cannot be 
exited. Killing only the two xmms processes allows me to restart it. 
Turning off Mmap mode in the ALSA driver configuration as some had 
suggested doesn't seem to have any effect.
Wilbur Harvey


Paul Dickson wrote:

>After xmms has been running for about a day, it will not start playing a
>new track.  This can happen either while xmms is playing or pressing play
>after xmms has been stopped for a while.
>
>Getting it to work again requires exiting xmms, then "killall xmms", and
>then a "alsactl restore", and finbally restarting xmms.  If I don't do
>the killall, then the buttons on the side of the notebook won't control
>xmms ("Couldn't grab XF86Audio{Next,Prev,Play,Stop): another client may
>already have done so").  Before killing xmms today (after exiting the
>program) there where two process remaining: one started yesterday in
>state SLl, the other started 6 hours earlier in state Ss.
>
>The crossfade plugin is using the output plugin "ALSA 1.2.10 output
>plugin".
>
>Ogg123 can play music while xmms can't.
>
>Last week, while playing Konquest this happened and I got a lot of aRts
>errors stateing something like the server was too busy.  Eventually, I
>got a big error window that said I could disable aRts (or somnething to
>that effect) and I haven't seen these errors since.
>
>Should I file a bugzilla report?  Against which package?
>
>I'm using:
>	xmms-crossfade-0.3.8-4
>	xmms-1.2.10-15
>	alsa-utils-1.0.9rc2-1
>
>	-Paul
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