Who broke audacity?

[andy baxter]

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I use my Ubuntu Gutsy box for three main things - email via ssh, email via web, 
> and preserving my cassette music collection via Audacity. Everything has been 
> working flawlessly, until tonight.   I'd last successfully recorded stuff two 
> nights ago (Sunday), most of the day.
>
> But today, when I turned on my system, audacity didn't show the normal device 
> it wants to record from (line 1).  When I told it to record, it claimed the 
> device was in use.  After a couple rounds of broken record attempts did I 
> realize the device options were not listed.
>
> I visited Edit > Preferences and discovered the playback and record drop-down 
> lists were non-functional.
>
> I visited System > Preferences > Sound and tested audio.  It worked fine.
>
> What happened to audacity?   Did some apt-get or aptitude update package break 
> something from Sunday night, the last time I think I may have updated stuff?
>
> I tried an aptitude reinstall audacity, and did an rm -rf ~/.audacity-data, but 
> nothing helps.
>
> What happened?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
>   
I think the answer is:

lsof | grep /dev/snd

This should list all the device files in /dev/snd which are open, with 
the name of the program which has opened them.

(Or better, "lsof | grep '/dev/snd$' ")