[ale] aplay runs amok

[hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)]

Geoffrey -

The line in the ps alx output in question is

0   501 17870  2227  16   0  2440  936 -      R    ?         15:24
/usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav

WTF?

- Jeff

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 10:18, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 06:12, Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> >>Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> >>
> >>>On my Mandrake 9.1/KDE machine, aplay seems to take the CPU to 100% even
> >>>though it's not doing anything.  I can kill it but it restarts after a
> >>>few minutes.  I can't tell what I might be doing to make this happen,
> >>>but nothing less than a restart of KDE seems to be required to make it
> >>>stop and stay stopped.  Anyone know what causes this?
> >>
> >>I wasn't aware of the toy, but I just fired it up with a wav file, no 
> >>problems.  Are you saying it's just running without being invoked?
> >>
> >>I don't see any kind of daemon option, I don't know why it would be 
> >>running without being invoked.
> > 
> > 
> > Right.  Something's invoking it and it freaks.
> 
> Can you run ps and trace the ownership via pid to the process that is 
> invoking it?
> 
> 'ps axl' will provide PPID.