On Wed, 2018-07-04 at 14:24 +0200, Nicola Manini wrote: > Hello, > I faced this very same issue today. > googling this bug report was extremely useful: I deleted timidity, and now > sound is back. Obviously this is no solution, as I (or someone else) will > need timidity eventually. > > I understand this is not a kernel related issue, but it is still a serious > issue anyway: timidity may grab the sound card at random moments, making > sound unusable.
The timidity-daemon package does this, and this is intentional and not a new behaviour. What changed recently (I think) is that some versions of timidity recommended timidity-daemon be installed. > I cannot tell who is actual package (timidity? systemd?) responsible for this > nor how this can be corrected (maybe insert an extra delay before the > timidity daemon is started?), but it sure requires a fix. > > So shouldn't this bug be reassigned rather than closed? Because the bug was already fixed in timidity version 2.14.0-4. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug
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