hel[ tracking down two pesky problems

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Matt Price wrote:

> 2) some process grabs /dev/dsp when I suspend/resume.  Often (but not

Use fuser and lsof to diagnose what is grabbing the file.

My wife is running Ubuntu Dapper on her laptop and she had the a similar 
problem (in her case it may or may not have been related to suspension). 
I determined that it was esd which was starting and grabbing /dev/dsp 
periodically.  I suspect some app she was starting was kicking off esd and 
causing the problem.  Tracking down this app was proving difficult so one 
day I did a chmod a-x on esd as a work around as she wasn't using it for 
anything anyway. That was about 3 weeks ago and the problem has not 
occured since I did the chmod.

Rob

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