[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #426: yet another Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy

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#426: yet another Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy
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  Reporter:  tetromino  |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  closed 
  Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:         
 Component:  daemon     |    Severity:  normal 
Resolution:  invalid    |    Keywords:         
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Comment (by tetromino):

 Replying to [comment:1 lennart]:
 > Some other application is apparently blocking access to the audio device
 and hence PA cannot access it anymore. Use "fuser -v /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp*"
 to find out which one it is.

 Thank you, you are correct.
 It turned out that Gnome was automatically starting esound (despite the
 fact that I had configured it not to do so); making /usr/bin/esd into a
 symlink to /usr/bin/esdcompat (on gentoo, it's "eselect esd set
 PulseAudio") fixed the problem.

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/426#comment:2>
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