[gentoo-user] arm64v8 inexpensive server

[James]

Hello,


http://www.96boards.org/products/ee/cello/

http://www.lenovator.com/product/103.html

Anyone got an early release of the board, or access to one, yet?


just curious,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG : kernel 4.5.1 and ALSA

[Yuri K. Shatroff]

21.04.2016 11:28, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Yuri K. Shatroff  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?


I emerged gentoo-sources==4.5.1.

I believe this is the related commit:

ALSA: hda - Fix regression of monitor_present flag in eld proc file

This can be wrong, but anyway, I listed some facts supporting the 
hypothesis of a problem in the 4.5.1 version.


--
Regards,
Yuri K. Shatroff

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG : kernel 4.5.1 and ALSA

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Yuri K. Shatroff  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?

[gentoo-user] BUG : kernel 4.5.1 and ALSA

[Yuri K. Shatroff]

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