Bug#440852: daemon fails to start if sound/mixer device is open

[Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>]

Package: timidity
Version: 2.13.2-15
Severity: minor

Hi,

I'm running timidity in daemon mode, and the last upgrade failed with
the message

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

This is probably related to the instance of mplayer that was open at
this time (running as a user).

Obviously, a user being able to make a system upgrade fail is not a good
thing; minor severity because it is probably not a problem at system
startup (although some display managers play a sound when they are
ready).

   Simon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages timidity depends on:
ii  libartsc0               1.5.7-2          aRts sound system C support librar
ii  libasound2              1.0.14a-2        ALSA library
ii  libaudio2               1.9-2+b1         The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libaudiofile0           0.2.6-7          Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-1+b1       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]  0.2.36-3         Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libflac8                1.1.4-3+b1       Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.0-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.4-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjack0                0.103.0-6        JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libncurses5             5.6+20070825-1   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libogg0                 1.1.3-2          Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-2   PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-1+b1     X11 Session Management library
ii  libvorbis0a             1.2.0.dfsg-2     The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2           1.2.0.dfsg-2     The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxmu6                 1:1.0.3-1        X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.5-3        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  lsb-base                3.1-24           Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  xaw3dg                  1.5+E-15         Xaw3d widget set
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages timidity recommends:
ii  freepats                      20060219-1 Free patch set for MIDI audio synt

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