Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] New Build Instructions on the Web Site

[Pete S. <pst...@ve...>]

PS = Pete Stieber
PS>>> Thanks Kevin.  I'm trying to understand the Jazz++
PS>>> zombie process that lives on when I exit Jazz++.
PS>>> It looks like it has to do with the ALSA connection.
PS>>> When I reboot, the ALSA close message even fails.
PS>>> This doesn't happen on the Fedora 8 box I test on.

KC = Kevin Cosgrove
KC>> Rather than rebooting, is there an alsa service in
KC>> /etc/init.d/... which could be restarted with the
KC>> 'service' command?

PS> Thanks for suggesting this Kevin.  I'm a long time
PS> Red Hat/Fedora user and though the "service"
PS> command was specific to Red Hat.
PS>
PS> I'm starting to think there is a problem that is
PS> independent of Jazz++. I tried restarting
PS>  ALSA from a cold boot and it also has problems...
PS>
PS> # service alsa restart
PS> Doing alsactrl to store mixer settings...          [  OK  ]
PS> Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.14): no. (sound is being
PS> used by pid    6272))                              [FAILED]
PS> ALSA driver (version 1.0.14) is already running.
PS>
PS> Process 6272 is the sound mixer applet
PS> (/usr/lib/mixer_applet2).
PS>
PS> Is this normal.  I thought root should be able to
PS> restart this service.
PS>
PS> When I check to see what ALSA version I
PS> have installed...
PS> $ rpm -qa | grep alsa
PS> libalsa2-1.0.15-0.rc1.4mdv2008.0
PS> libalsa-data-1.0.15-0.rc1.4mdv2008.0
PS> libalsa2-devel-1.0.15-0.rc1.4mdv2008.0
PS> libalsa-oss0-1.0.14-2mdv2008.0
PS> alsa-utils-1.0.15-0.rc1.1mdv2008.0
PS> alsa-plugins-1.0.14-7mdv2008.0
PS>
PS> Should 1.0.14 be mixed with 1.0.15?
PS>
PS> I don't want to get too caught up in Mandriva
PS> specific problems.  Maybe I botched the install?
PS>
PS> Any ideas Kevin?

I can't even stop the process with

# service alsa force-stop

This command tries to stop all processes attached to alsa, but gets 
stuck trying to kill the Jazz++ process with a SIGKILL.

I'm not sure what to do next.

Pete