[Bug 278430] Every time notebook start with a Mageia 1 KDE, the window error appears kdeinit4 PID 1265 Sinal: Aborted (6)

[Harald Sitter]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278430





--- Comment #5 from Harald Sitter <sitter kde org>  2011-07-27 17:59:07 ---
lol, interesting.

so, I for one think that alsa should not crash, since the actual reason for the
crash is a failing assert. presuming that kmix does not throw invalid input at
libasound the assert there is probably just wrong, depending on what it
actually does (I did not look at the ALSA source).

Anyhow. I do consider this a non-issue in any KDE technology. In particular two
things are very wrong with the whole situation:

Speedboot should not speed into a desktop without having all components that
are necessary for a desktop. Point being that it is probably less than trivial
to recover applications *at runtime* from a start without sound devices.
Meaning most of the time one would need to restart or logout&login to get
everything working again. Which defeats the purpose of speedboot quite a bit.
Now considering that the KDE workspace by default starts into the previously
left session there could be a great number of apps that needed starting (aka
time) and yet they'd be rendered partially unusable. So the user actually
waited for nothing. Yay.

The second problem is that ALSA should probably not crash. Unless ALSA is
initializing right while kmix tries to start, the failing assert might be bogus
the way it is. libasound certainly should not go down over not having whatever
ALSA stuff that is not loaded yet. Of course this might still be bogus function
call from kmix, but without looking at the code that is hard to say. Either way
they should not crash.

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