On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Yuri K. Shatroff <yks-...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Hi gentoo-users, > > A few days ago I updated linux kernel to 4.5.1. Yesterday I got a disk space > overflow in my /home partition. Cleaned it up and rebooted, just to run into > the same issue today morning. Investigations revealed that the > `.xsessions-errors` had grown to tremendous 100G full of messages like: > > AL lib: (EE) ALCplaybackAlsa_mixerProc: start failed: File > descriptor in a bad state > > It is - *50G per DAY!* > > Thinking about a possible cause and bearing in mind I've not updated ALSA > recently rather than the kernel, I went to the kernel's changelog and found > that version 4.5.2 fixes several ALSA-related bugs. I upgraded immediately > and got rid of the error. > > So I advise everyone not to install the 4.5.1 kernel and suggest removing it > from portage ASAP. If anyone knows how I could submit such a request, I'm > all ears. > > Thanks for your attention! > > -- > Regards, > Yuri K. Shatroff >
That's interesting. That was certainly not my experience running vanilla 4.5.1. Although I compiled the kernel sources I had previously downloaded from the kernel.org's git repository. How did you obtain your kernel sources?
