hoary woes

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 08:37:11AM +0100, Simon Burke wrote:

> 1) Synaptic crashes out whenever there are dependancies, the dialogue
> appears but if you click on ok or cancel synaptic just closes. Theres
> not output that i have found, so thats as detailed as i can be.

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3045

It works fine for me and for the maintainer, so it would be appreciated if
you could help to debug it.

> 2) sound. For some reason esound works but nothing else. If i open up
> beep media player i have to use the esound output as both alsa and oss
> dont seem to acknowledge that there is a soundcard. Both give errors
> that it was unable to open the sound device.

Some application has the sound device open, so no others can open it at the
same time.  This has always been the case; you must use esound in order to
share the sound card.

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 - mdz