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

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Christian Jaeger wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 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.

This is maybe the problem in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593064 and
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594686

Please give us the link to the bug report in alsa, when you do it.

-- 
Eugen