Bug#902330: timidity: daemon excludes pulseaudio daemon from using audio cards
Package: timidity
Version: 2.14.0-3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Hi there! After the last update and reboot of my Sid system, I could no
longer hear sound output from any application. I'm running per-user
PulseAudio, and ``pavucontrol`` said that no audio cards were being detected,
showing only a fake sink device. The card was reported in ``dmesg``,
``lspi``, ``lsmod`` and ``alsamixer`` though.
Running ``fuser /dev/snd/*`` showed only the Timidity daemon having
``/dev/snd/controlC0`` open. Stopping the Timidity daemon seemed to fix the
issue and running ``pavucontrol`` again reported the physical card. Actually
I was then able to start the Timidity daemon again successfully without
breaking things.
Restarting the system made the Timidity daemon hold the card again until it
was stopped, so I stopped and disabled the daemon as a temporary workaround.
As I mentioned, this happened after a recent update and reboot, so the issue
may have been introduced by some update during June 2018.
Thank you very much!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: arm64, armhf, i386
Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ca:es (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages timidity depends on:
ii libasound2 1.1.6-1
ii libaudio2 1.9.4-6
ii libc6 2.27-3
ii libflac8 1.3.2-3
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2
ii libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.125] 1.9.12~dfsg-2
ii libncurses6 6.1+20180210-4
ii libogg0 1.3.2-1+b1
ii libpng16-16 1.6.34-1
ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b3
ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1.2-1+b2
ii libtinfo6 6.1+20180210-4
ii libvorbis0a 1.3.6-1
ii libvorbisenc2 1.3.6-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.5-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1+b2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
ii lsb-base 9.20170808
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
Versions of packages timidity recommends:
ii fluid-soundfont-gm 3.1-5.1
ii timidity-daemon 2.14.0-3
Versions of packages timidity suggests:
ii fluid-soundfont-gs 3.1-5.1
ii freepats 20060219-1
ii pmidi 1.7.1-1
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