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!
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Regards,
Yuri K. Shatroff
