Xmms crashes when i open a terminal (?)

[mattheweast]

The topic says it all: xmms is happily playing files in mp3 format, then i open an xterm, and it crashes. Go figure! This doesn't happen if I'm running xmms from a terminal already and open another one.

<EDIT>I've also noticed it disappears if I open nautilus.</EDIT>

Here is my .bashrc, which is the only thing I can think of that might assist. If there is anything more I can provide, please let me know!!!

Thanks in advance,

Matt

matt@eustathios matt $ cat .bashrc
# /etc/skel/.bashrc:
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/skel/.bashrc,v 1.8 2003/02/28 15:45:35 azarah Exp $

# This file is sourced by all *interactive* bash shells on startup. This
# file *should generate no output* or it will break the scp and rcp commands.

# colors for ls, etc.
eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`
alias d="ls --color"
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
alias ll="ls --color -l"

# Change the window title of X terminals
case $TERM in
xterm*|rxvt|Eterm|eterm)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
;;
screen)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\033\\"'
;;
esac

##uncomment the following to activate bash-completion:
[ -f /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ] && source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion

[pianosaurus]

Is any sound played when you open xterm or nautilus? If so, it could be a conflict of some sort, probably caused by alsa-lib 1.0.8.
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[mattheweast]

Yes that is it!! Thanks!

I have disabled gnome sound events and the problem does not occur. I hope that I won't get it when browsing the internet to sites with music or when trying to play other sound: it may be that the gnome sound server was causing the problem.

thanks again, Matt

[pianosaurus]

You could downgrade alsa-lib to 1.0.7 instead, and the problem would go away. Simply do

[GungHo]

[GungHo]

oh boy, it's always an adventure when doing an "emerge -u world"

xmms now seems to be stable, but when I press it's 'Pause' button, there are hundreds and thousands of the following messages running over the console where xmms was started:

[GungHo]

no, re-emerging xmms does not solve this issue

[pianosaurus]

Yupp, I have that prob to. But I never start xmms from a terminal, so I don't care. It doesn't actually do any harm.
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