Package: rplay-server Version: 3.3.2-11.1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line ***
On a lenny system we used ALSA to configure sound. We tried to play some .au (.snd) format files with rplay, but this failed. rplay-client exited with no error status. We were able to play the same files with sndfile-play. % lsmod |grep snd snd_hda_intel 326584 0 snd_pcm 63492 1 snd_hda_intel snd_seq 42224 0 snd_timer 18568 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 7148 1 snd_seq snd 46404 5 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 7136 1 snd snd_page_alloc 8648 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm After stracing the interaction between -client and -server we could see that the audio-device=/dev/dsp argument was not being passed (along with all the other playing parameters). e.g. (from the rplay-server strace) 9743 write(6, "+host=testbox version=3.3.2 uptime=00:05:38\r\n"..., 41) = 41 9743 time(NULL) = 1284607712 9743 select(1024, [0 3 4 5 6], [], NULL, {1, 0}) = 1 (in [6], left {1, 0}) 9743 time(NULL) = 1284607712 9743 recv(6, "info sound=BoobookOwl.au\r\n"..., 1024, MSG_PEEK) = 26 9743 read(6, "info sound=BoobookOwl.au\r\n"..., 26) = 26 9743 open("/sounds/BoobookOwl.au", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 7 The workaround was # modprobe snd-pcm-oss # lsmod |grep snd snd_pcm_oss 33568 0 snd_mixer_oss 13088 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_hda_intel 326584 1 snd_pcm 63492 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel snd_seq 42224 0 snd_timer 18568 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 7148 1 snd_seq snd 46404 7 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 7136 2 snd snd_page_alloc 8648 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm # /etc/init.d/rplay-server restart Since this package is orphaned it seems unreasonable to ask for ALSA support. But it would be useful to document that the devices /dev/audio and /dev/dsp are needed for the package to function correctly, in the README.Debian for -server. e.g. This package relies on OSS sound device support to function correctly, i.e. /dev/dsp and /dev/audio must be present on your system before rplay-server will be able to play sounds. Kind regards Vince -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages rplay-server depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgsm1 1.0.12-1 Shared libraries for GSM speech co ii librplay3 3.3.2-11.1 Shared libraries for the rplay net rplay-server recommends no packages. Versions of packages rplay-server suggests: ii mpg123 1.4.3-4lenny1 MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player pn vorbis-tools <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-packages-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100917012955.gd10...@mayhem.atnf.csiro.au