From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MpnfG-0002oA-Ue for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:31:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAD6DE0872; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:31:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F14E0872 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:31:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA2364D18 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:31:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.318 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.318 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.719, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NsNLZEkWbW+B for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:30:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5B764F9B for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:30:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mpnez-00050s-Io for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:30:49 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-189-182.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.189.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:30:49 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-189-182.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:30:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed? Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:30:23 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20090919013959.GA5295@solfire> <4AB43A71.5080805@gmail.com> <20090919020840.GB5295@solfire> <200909191028.14764.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20090919112559.GA27909@solfire> <4AB4C4DE.5050707@coolmail.se> <20090919123107.GB10187@solfire> <20090920000731.GA5740@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-189-182.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090921 Shredder/3.0pre In-Reply-To: <20090920000731.GA5740@solfire> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: f7c1e617-236a-4b7c-b952-e30ab52fb71e X-Archives-Hash: 4723d5ab757d35d70f11ed8210833850 On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > walt [09-09-20 02:03]: >> On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: >> >>> Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP="no" to /etc/conf.d/alsasound >>> and we will see what happens. >> >> Did you try stopping the alsa service manually? >> >> #/etc/init.d/alsasound stop >> > > This gave me errors, since my Webcam's audio part isn't implemented as > full audio device, but it does not hang: > > solfire:/home/mccramer>sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound stop > * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. > * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... > alsactl: get_control:249: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Mic Capture Volume,0': Invalid argument Hm. Does alsamixer show that guilty control? I ran strace on alsactl and it consults a very small number of files while doing a 'store' operation, so there are very few places that Mic Capture control could be hiding. You might try using strace to see what turns up. (If the error bothers you, of course.)