Re: [Ekiga-list] Recovering from apps hanging trying to use ALSA

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Christian Jaeger a écrit :
> I've finally found out how to cure the problem where applications
> using sound like Ekiga (but also Twinkle, QEMU, ...) won't start
> anymore but just hang: they are blocking trying to get a SysV IPC
> semaphore. Honestly, I didn't expect ALSA to be using SysV IPC.
> Anyway, find the attached script which solves the problem for me.

Push the issue to the alsa developpers : the problem comes from them...

Snark