On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:43:14 +0000
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Frans Ketelaars wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:41:50 +0000
> >John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Damian Gatabria wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Wednesday 22 January 2003 18:27, John Richard Smith wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Every time I boot up I get a warning message in a terminal,
> >>>>/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> >>>>
> >>>>How can I check what is keeping the device busy.
> >>>>What can I do about it.
> >>>>
> >>>>John
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>At which stage of the boot process do you get this?
> >>>
> >>>Damian
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Immediately on desktop and upon putting up d4x which has a terminal
> >>which come up as standard.I know something is
> >>amiss because kde jingle fails. All other aspect of sound setup
> >>appears ok, like grip, and the various cdplayers, but kde desktop
> >>should arrive with a short sound bite and doesn't, I'd just like to
> >>find out what's going on and correct it.
> >>I suspect it is also affecting the sound in xine but this is very much 
> >>supposition
> >>at this stage.
> >>
> >>I have alsa sound with aRts enabled.
> >>
> >>John
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>John Richard Smith
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >'/sbin/fuser /dev/dsp' should give you the pid of the offending 
> >program.
> >
> >HTH,
> >
> >    -Frans
> >
> >  
> >
> Thanks, Frans,
> 
> I took it I am to run this as a command,
> 
> 
> ]# /sbin/fuser/ /dev/dsp
                ^ that slash shouldn't be there .....

> bash: /sbin/fuser/: Not a directory
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong ?
> 
> John

Oops, sorry, it's part of the psmisc-21-2mdk RPM, but I think that's already
installed on your system and the extra "/" is the problem :)

    -Frans

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