21.04.2016 11:28, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Yuri K. Shatroff <[email protected]> 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!
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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.
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Regards,
Yuri K. Shatroff
