Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0+dfsg.1-6 Severity: important Boy did this one take a while to track down. The problem was that mozilla played sounds for me (username 6 chars), user1 (7 chars) but not user2 (12 chars).
/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox is a shell script that tries to work out if esd is running for a user. However how it does it is very evil and prone to breaking. ps -o user,command will return a UID if the username is too long. That means the grep fails so mozilla assumes there is no esd. Anything wanting to use sound blocks trying to get to /dev/dsp Don't ever try to find processes this way! There is a wonderful tool that does this for you, it is called pgrep and is in the same package as ps. Don't match to an environment variable! Use id which is part of coreutils and is Essential so its going to be there. Also, why are you running the output of fuser through sed? I thought stdout only prints the pids? In any case, to find the esd process owned by you, try this pgrep -u `id -u` esd Much less evil! -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages mozilla-firefox depends on: ii debianutils 2.13.0 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.2.3-4 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-4 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-9 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libidl0 0.8.3-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkrb53 1.3.6-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System printing extension ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii psmisc 21.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-11 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
