Re: [Evolution] Evolution hangs reading from esd socket

[Daniel Yek <danieyek alumni washington edu>]

Bug filed at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346086

The killing esd daemons tip from Pete Biggs is quite useful. I just used it to recover my Evolution session. Thanks.

-- 
Daniel Yek.

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 10:15 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> you should probably submit this to bugzilla.gnome.org, under the
> libgnome module. (evolution just calls gnome_sound_play(), it doesn't do
> any communication with esd itself).
>
> I would imagine other gnome apps have the same problem.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 01:52 -0700, Daniel Yek wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Evolution sometimes hangs and if it hangs, it will continue to hangs
> > until I reboot my FC5 computer. 
> > 
> > >From the stack shown in gdb, I suspected that Evolution was outputting
> > alarm audio when it hung.
> > 
> > >From strace output, I saw that Evolution read ./.esd_auth and then wrote
> > to /tmp/.esd/socket. It hung after it reads something back from the esd
> > socket.
> > 
> > STRACE OUTPUT:
> > uname({sys="Linux", node="somehost.com", ...}) = 0
> > access("/tmp/.esd/socket", R_OK|W_OK)   = 0
> > socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 39
> > fcntl64(39, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
> > setsockopt(39, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
> > connect(39, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/.esd/socket"}, 18) = 0
> > rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x48f7ab10, [PIPE], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) =
> > 0
> > open("/home/auser/.esd_auth", O_RDONLY) = 48
> > read(48, " \276\230\351?\16)KG\"\23o\10\307\320%", 16) = 16
> > write(39, " \276\230\351?\16)KG\"\23o\10\307\320%", 16) = 16
> > write(39, "NDNE", 4)                    = 4
> > read(39,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is this a known bug? Does it have anything to do with whether my sound
> > device is occupied by another multi-media application?
> > 
> > 
> > DETAILS:
> > $ rpm -q evolution
> > evolution-2.6.1-1.fc5.2
> > 
> > Thanks.
> >