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FS#13142 - Timidity error

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kevin D. Atkinson (Slammer64) - Friday, 06 February 2009, 22:51 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Friday, 27 February 2009, 23:31 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: Any application calling timidity++ crashes unless running with root privileges, i.e. sudo, root, or set suid bit.


Additional info:Fresh install of Arch x86_64 all updated, running KDE 4.2 DE
Timidity++ configured with eawpatch and testing various applications from AUR using Timidity++ for sound.
* package version(s) Timidity++ 2.13.2-8 and timidity-eawpatches 12-7
* config and/or log files etc. No log files are generated, just crashes silently with a program aborted message.


Steps to reproduce:
Install Arch including timidity and a program that calls timidity like vavoom-sdl and run as a regular user.
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Friday, 27 February 2009, 23:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  fixed in KDE 4.2.1 apparently
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 08 February 2009, 04:13 GMT
Could you give another example of a program that calls timidity? vavoom-sdl requires games data which I don't have so I can't reproduce the crash.
Comment by Kevin D. Atkinson (Slammer64) - Sunday, 08 February 2009, 13:42 GMT
That's a problem, I only have a use for timidity++ in playing old games I own on Arch, maybe a shareware wad?
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 08 February 2009, 19:29 GMT
Is the timidity daemon running?
Try using gdb or strace to get more output.
Comment by Kevin D. Atkinson (Slammer64) - Sunday, 08 February 2009, 20:28 GMT
I have tried it with both the daemon running and not, strace just stops dead at "program aborted"
Comment by Kevin D. Atkinson (Slammer64) - Sunday, 08 February 2009, 21:00 GMT
Ok, I was able to finally get a maybe useable strace, it would leave my desktop frozen after it crashed out, and I couldn't get gdb to work with the shell script vavoom uses to call the main program (I'm not much of a programmer, sorry. But here it is.
   strace.txt (6.1 KiB)
Comment by Kevin D. Atkinson (Slammer64) - Friday, 27 February 2009, 21:11 GMT
Please mark this bug as closed and solved, the latest update to KDE, i.e. 4.2 > 4.2.1 seems to have corrected all errors that were occurring, sorry for the bother.

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