Bug#904098: Timidity is blocking alsa plughw

2021-01-25 Thread ael
After a little further investigation, I found that timidity was being started by systemd by falling back to /etc/rc*.d/ SYSV files. Note that I had removed timidity-daemon, but I did not purge the package. As a result, it seems that timidity was being started: # systemctl list-units "timidity*"

Bug#904098: Timidity is blocking alsa plughw

2021-01-24 Thread ael
I have also found that timidity is blocking access to the alsa plughw device. This may perhaps be the underlying problem with pulseaudio although as I only use alsa I cannot comment on that. Trying to open the alsa device returns a "Device or resource busy" error. It is possible that an asoundrc