unable to open slave

[Yorvik]

BobSongs wrote:
> Well. Fun, fun, fun.
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> There's nothing more fun than an intermittent error.
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> I now open *gedit* and the error does not occur. Go figure. I'll see
> what I can do to replicate the error.
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Well it's turned up again

steve at ubuntu:~$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:819:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
steve at ubuntu:~$
steve at ubuntu:~$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
steve at ubuntu:~$

The only other prog open was Thunderbird.  If I exited gedit and 
repeated the command it didn't show the message.

???

SteVe