Grettings (again),
Found it! The problem was with 'yiff', a sound server which is
suggested by the 'xshipwars' package.
I hardly switch off the machine that I installed it on, but when it was
rebooted (I'll have to talk to my SO about that one), 'yiff' opened
/dev/dsp. This caused everything else to block:
gnome (sound)
xmms
mpg123
Removing this package (and all the related 'xshipwars' packages) fixed
the problem. I fould the problem by using 'strace' on mpg123, to find
that it was blocking on /dev/dsp, and 'lsof' to show that 'yiff' was
the culparate.
OK. What do I do from here? I can email a bug report to the
maintainer.. Raphael Bossek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I'm using a web
updated potato with security updates.
I only received one email from my original request (thanks Andrea).
Paul
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Greetings,
'Gnome' is not starting up anymore, and I'm not able to run
gnome applications:
It opens a connection on the localhost to port 16001,
and waits, but doesn't get anything.. and seems to just be hanging.
What is this port? I don't know how the gnome system works, so any
pointers (to documentation or whatever) would be useful.
Running 'strace' on a gnome application gives
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open("/etc/popt", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
getuid() = 1001
geteuid() = 1001
open("/home/paul/.popt", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/tmp/.esd/socket", R_OK|W_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3
fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
connect(3, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(16001),
sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}}, 16) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x403a9eb0, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
open("/home/paul/.esd_auth", O_RDONLY) = 4
read(4, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@\314\373\377\277\0\236\0@", 16) = 16
write(3, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@\314\373\377\277\0\236\0@", 16) = 16
write(3, "NDNE", 4) = 4
read(3, <unfinished ...>
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Paul
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