Using 7.10 gutsy gibbon with newest updates, and i can confirm the same
problem.
However, did the following right after a clean install, dist-upgrade
and login (to be sure there's no weird processes blocking /dev/dsp):
$ cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp
bash: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
$ ps ax
I ran:
$ sudo lsof |grep /dev/snd/
Turned out gnumeric was using:
/dev/snd/timer
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
/dev/snd/controlC0
After killing it my sound came right back. Hope this helps.
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I had something similar until I stumbled across this bug, the top of
which there is mention of esd.
$ ps ax|grep esd
8774 ?S 0:00 /usr/NX/bin/nxesd -tcp -nobeeps -port 6000 -bind
127.0.0.1
9482 pts/1R+ 0:00 grep esd
And sure enough, in my case nxesd (of the Nomachine
Hi, I had the same problem with this error message Device or resource
busy. Command lsof /dev/dsp or /dev/audio gave me no output. But lsof |
grep /dev/snd/ showed me some process using files in this directory
which is used by ALSA. Killing these process solved my problem.
However it is still
Well, if it is a bug, it's been unresolved a long time, and everybody
who tried juggling with games knows about such trouble with OSS.
Your solution is to kill processes which haven't ended properly. Or run
them with aoss :-)
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Yes, this can be SO annoying! Fuser displays nothing, yet /dev/dsp is
busy.
I'm running feisty and am still experiencing this sometimes.
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Just to mention, my original distro was dapper. I've upgraded it to edgy
and now to feisty. Bug is still present.
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Juraj: did you use sudo? When you did, your problem is a different one
from mine and some others in this discussion.
For me, it is clear my /dev/dsp is used by firefox and openoffice, and
the question is why these programs use /dev/dsp exclusively. Maybe it
should be reported as a bug in these
It made no difference whether I used sudo or not. This bug is called
/dev/dsp busy, but no program using it
Exclusive usage of /dev/dsp IS NOT a bug. It's a hardware limitation of
your sound card, which doesn't support hardware mixing. The Open Sound
System (OSS) architecture does NOT support
True, the title should be clear enough.
But there are 2 discussions going on here; for example bcdeck,
flickerfly and Georges seem to have the same problem as me.
By the way, I think it IS a bug. In a distribution, sound should be working, no
matter which program I use. That's what you and
I have the same problem, but found that firefox and openoffice use
/dev/dsp exclusively sometimes. Could it be related to java?
Easy way to check which program is using /dev/dsp:
$ fuser /dev/dsp
Then find the PID with top.
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7.04 no longer has this issue on Apple PowerBook G4 12 1.5 GHz
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upgrading to the latest flash plugin solved most of the issues, so it was the
plugin's fault.
I still see problems when I have sound in java applets. So that's another
plugin needing an update on it's sound management.
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I'm not an Ubuntu user, I use Sidux and came accross this page by
accident, but as they are both Debian and the symptoms are the same this
might work for a temporary fix:
sudo lsof | grep /dev/snd
This should just list artsd. Kill it and run your sound app straight
after.
Once your program has
Another program that will mysteriously hog alsa is the softmodem sl-
modem-daemon.
I believe the hardware is capable of running both the modem and the
sound card at once but the software is not.
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it is flash related and has been also on all previous versions of linux,
indifferent of distribution.
It may work better with the latest flash plugin (version 9) but I still suspect
the java plugin to also mess around with sound in the same way.
But the real bug is: how do we find out which
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 21:53 +, Georges wrote:
But the real bug is: how do we find out which program is responsible of
blocking /dev/dsp. For the moment I just do a random kill here and there
until I get my sound back.
sudo lsof | grep /dev/dsp
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I'm still having this problem on Edgy. I have an update though. I'm
working some more on digging up dirt.
I've tried killing off certain things that are suggested to be related
and then run 'ps ax|grep esd' and I'm finding that I don't have any esd
related things in the list so that would seem to
I'm getting a similar issue on my Apple 12 PowerBook G4 rev.A. My
profile URL is
http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/?xml=b3248bb23e46628798fb6a167e0e7390 ; not sure
if that helps or not.
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OK, I've found a bit more out. I get the above error when I'm running a
Java-based game called Lux (http://sillysoft.net/lux/). With Lux
running, I get the previously mentioned error message. Without, sound
plays fine. Also, Firefox does not cause me an issue.
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google brought me here, but it may or may not be related. I found that
it was not dsp that was occupied, but that firefox (very likely the
flash plugin) was blocking /dev/sound/pcm[something].
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I'm running Edgy (clean install on a reformatted drive) on an nforce2
chipset. I get a similar issue -- audio apps produce no sound on an
intermittent basis, and they give no error messages.
The app gui indicates the app is playing the media or stream happily. If
I go to the sound prefs tab and
I have a similar issue.
However there is a difference of ALSA behaviour between the super user (
the account created during installation) and a subsequent one.
As the first user,
$ aplay -l
List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
card 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], device 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012]
Same experience as Paolo: Google brought me here via Ubuntu forums.
Had firefox running with a youtube movie on pause. Shutdown the youtube
site and then the device was not busy any more.
Can the OP confirm that FF was not running at the time of finding the
bug? Then I can file a new bug - one
It is entirely possible that I was using YouTube or GoogleVideo in
coorespondence. I know that it happened at least once when that was the
case. It may coorespond. I'll try to replicate it.
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Can confirm. For me it happens on Dapper, upgraded from an initial install of
Breezy. Haven't tried Edgy and won't in the near future.
Relogin of user solved the problem. Today (22Dec06) is the first time this
ocurred.
Have only one real soundcard (chipset on Nvidia based motherboard), but also
Thanks for the confirm cfi. I have an Intel based chipset.
$ aplay -l
List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH6]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH6 -
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