Re: OpenBSD-2.7/i386 machine hangs up!

[Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@cse.iitd.ernet.in>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:

> I have had a similar experience. I am tracking -current, refreshing
> my tree and rebuilding everything every few days. I have found that
> every so often while playing a .wav file with waveplay from the
> ports collection that the sound cuts off abruptly. Usually this
> just hangs waveplay, but occaisonally the entire machine locks up.
> 
> If just waveplayer locks up I find that even after killing it, I 
> can no longer play .wav files (the program runs but no sound comes
> out), though I can still play CD's using xcdplayer. I have never 
> experienced a problem with .mp3 files or CD playing so I have been 
> attributing it to a problem with (or exposed by) waveplay.
> 

Now that you say it, almost all the times that my machine too hung, I was
playing .mp3 files.  I say almost, just because I am not too sure to
commit it; but I must say that whenever I work on my machine, the music is
generally ON, and so (I can safely say) it must be always. 

And another thing, once it hangs, and I reboot, the machine doesn't hang
after that.  It's only the first time that it hangs.  (It could also be
that I may not sit for so long as the first time, for it to hang ...
but I just mentioned it.)

Rakhesh

PS: And in my case, it's never that mpg123 (which plays the .mp3) only
hangs.  The whole machine locks up.  So it could be a different problem.