[ale] aplay runs amok

[Geoffrey]

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.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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