On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:04:38 -0400 (EDT), > Allin Cottrell wrote: > > Most important problem: I'm used to having the alsa sound modules > > auto-load on demand, and this worked fine for me with alsa 0.5 and > > linux kernel 2.4.X. Now, however, if I launch an alsa app (aplay or > > alsaplayer for instance) without first manually loading the sound > > modules, very bad things happen. Gkrellm shows an ever-increasing > > number of processes being started; the system becomes unresponsive and > > the only way out that I have found is to reboot the machine (doing > > "killall" on the alsa app does not seem to stop the runaway process > > escalation). > > hmm, weird.
It seems to be a devfs issue. Via 'ps auwx' I was able to determine that the hang is on /sbin/modprobe -k -C /etc/modules.devfs /dev/snd (a command generated by devfsd), and a 'kill -9' on that process stops the rot. I'm now trying updating devfsd. Allin Cottrell.
