Bug#510459: vorbis-tools: ogg123 crashes or hangs when it cannot open the device

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2009-01-02 15:55:13 +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
> I can't reproduce this yet. If I merely don't have permissions to
> the device (as user nobody in this instance) I get
> 
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> ALSA snd_pcm_open error: No such file or directory
> Error: Cannot open device alsa.

I think you're seeing bug 408746:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408746

> and no segfault.
> 
> How about you?

I can no longer reproduce the segfault at the moment, under similar
conditions. There may be something that can trigger it, but I don't
know. Could this be some form of memory corruption?

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