Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Crash reports before 1.6 release?

[Pedro Lopez-C. <ped...@gm...>]

On Saturday, 29 September 2007 23:40, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On 29/09/2007, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <ped...@gm...> 
wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > An Ubuntu user claims that RG crashes frequently:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/146526
> >
> > Can anybody confirm this issue?
>
> I've never seen it.
>
> Ubuntu has a fairly out of date version of Rosegarden (1.4.0 I think).
>  However, I don't remember any problems similar to the one he
> describes having been fixed since then.  Indeed, I don't remember any
> having been reported either.  I don't have a particularly good memory
> though.
>
> The ALSA call in the stack trace looks suggestive, although I don't
> quite know why.  Any thoughts about it?

The only place where we use this ALSA function is in AlsaDriver::sleep(). 
Which is indirectly invoked at sequencer's main loop. The assert fails only 
when the sequencer handle is 0. Maybe the sequencer has failed to 
initilialise?

Regards,
Pedro