Re: [SoX-users] play freeze unless quiet mode

[Pablo B. <pab...@gm...>]

Maybe useful: With strace -c I've found play gets stuck on read and select
syscalls.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Pablo Bianchi <pab...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> For several years I was using this sox command to play whitenoise to focus
> in my pomodoro:
>
> *play -n synth 25:00 whitenoise*
>
> As with  play -n synth 2 pluck E4  or  play -n synth 2 sine the I could
> solve the problem just with *-q*. It seems play freeze while trying to
> display something, it just prompt this and freeze terminal:
>
>   Encoding: n/a
>   Channels: 1 @ 32-bit
> Samplerate: 48000Hz
> Replaygain: off
>   Duration: unknown
>
> I tryied to find something debuging with strace. No luck.
>
> Some info from my system:
>
> Packages recently upgraded: apport apport-gtk dkms grub-common grub-pc
> grub-pc-bin grub2-common libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa-drivers libgbm1
> libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
> libglapi-mesa libglapi-mesa:i386 libgles2-mesa libhunspell-1.3-0
> libopenvg1-mesa libwayland-egl1-mesa libxatracker2 linux-firmware php5-cgi
> php5-cli php5-common php5-gd php5-mysql php5-readline python3-apport
> python3-distupgrade python3-problem-report synapse
> ubuntu-release-upgrader-core ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk
>
> dpkg -l | grep sox
> ii  libsox-fmt-alsa:amd64    14.4.1-3ubuntu1
> ii  libsox-fmt-base:amd64    14.4.1-3ubuntu1
> ii  libsox2:amd64            14.4.1-3ubuntu1
> ii  libsoxr0:amd64           0.1.1-1
> ii  sox
>
> lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
> Release:    14.04
> Codename:    trusty
>
> uname -na
> Linux beethoven 3.13.0-65-generic #105-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 21 18:50:58 UTC
> 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Regards,
> Pablo
>