[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#546642: alsa-utils: alsactl segfaults

Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com
Mon Sep 14 19:20:40 UTC 2009


Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.20-3
Severity: normal

Keep seeing these in my logs:

# zegrep alsa /var/log/dmesg*
/var/log/dmesg:[   22.996542] alsactl[2310]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfa67800 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg:[   22.997098] alsactl[2318]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfb4be10 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg:[   23.002802] alsactl[2320]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfb3a550 error 4<6>alsactl[2319]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfdabe60 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000] in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg:[   23.337300] alsactl[2532]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfb2c0b0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg:[   23.342109] alsactl[2538]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bf88efd0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg:[   23.348247] alsactl[2541]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfaa73f0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg:[   23.351752] alsactl[2542]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfdce200 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.0:[   23.177490] alsactl[2304]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bf8f2b40 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.0:[   23.178079] alsactl[2299]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfabdcb0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.0:[   23.183244] alsactl[2308]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfe88130 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.0:[   23.183718] alsactl[2309]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bff7d3d0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.1.gz:[   21.955159] alsactl[2291]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfa63ba0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.1.gz:[   21.955517] alsactl[2290]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfa89930 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.1.gz:[   21.961674] alsactl[2293]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfba9680 error 4<6>alsactl[2292]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfe5a480 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000] in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.1.gz:[   22.243309] alsactl[2512]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfdb5990 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.1.gz:[   22.249158] alsactl[2517]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfa20250 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.1.gz:[   22.249351] alsactl[2516]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfdd5550 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.1.gz:[   22.253117] alsactl[2518]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bf90fcf0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.2.gz:[   23.685196] alsactl[2304]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfa59a50 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.2.gz:[   23.688887] alsactl[2308]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfec94a0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.2.gz:[   23.742017] alsactl[2315]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bf83faf0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.2.gz:[   23.745541] alsactl[2316]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfa06370 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.2.gz:[   23.967274] alsactl[2529]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bff68ae0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.2.gz:[   23.971107] alsactl[2533]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfb23eb0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.2.gz:[   23.976444] alsactl[2535]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfa4ffd0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.2.gz:[   23.979946] alsactl[2536]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfc01d20 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.3.gz:[   23.285120] alsactl[2301]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bf943ee0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.3.gz:[   23.285464] alsactl[2296]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfb469d0 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.3.gz:[   23.291511] alsactl[2305]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfd2fdc0 error 4<6>alsactl[2306]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfcf7c20 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000] in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.3.gz:[   23.557698] alsactl[2526]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfe20240 error 4<6>alsactl[2525]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfc60e60 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000] in alsactl[8048000+13000]
/var/log/dmesg.3.gz:[   23.563809] alsactl[2527]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bff0e060 error 4<6>alsactl[2528]: segfault at 0 ip 080580db sp bfd66510 error 4 in alsactl[8048000+13000] in alsactl[8048000+13000]

# lspci | egrep -i audio
05:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value

# lsmod | egrep snd
snd_emu10k1_synth       5368  0
snd_emux_synth         25336  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi         4680  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul       5216  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1           116172  3 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_pcsp                8416  0
snd_ac97_codec         91264  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm_oss            32232  0
snd_mixer_oss          12368  1 snd_pcm_oss
ac97_bus                1456  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_util_mem            3876  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm                62420  5 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcsp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_hwdep               6120  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_midi            5688  0
snd_rawmidi            18596  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      6212  2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                42436  5 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              17436  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          6136  5 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    49060  16 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcsp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc          8180  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
soundcore               6184  1 snd


Any ideas what the cause might be?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  libasound2                1.0.20-4       shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                     2.9-26         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.21+dfsg-1  base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-23         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.10-3         tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                      0.141-2        /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  whiptail                  0.52.10-4      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                  1.0.21+dfsg-1 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  pciutils                   1:3.1.4-1     Linux PCI Utilities

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian





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