| Jeff Abrahamson on 2 Aug 2006 14:22:42 -0000 |
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:54:24PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > [32 lines, 217 words, 1498 characters] Top characters: -eotsarn > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:23:27AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said: > > The script that launches mozilla browser has in it the line > > > > fuser /dev/dsp 2>&1 | sed -e 's#^/dev/dsp:##' > > > > I'm not sure why my web browser needs to know about sound, but I'm > > more curious why "fuser /dev/dsp" would not return when I execute > > it. Executing it as root makes no difference. > > /etc/mozilla/mozillarc:MOZILLA_DSP is probably set to auto, and > mozilla is attempting to figure out if a sound daemon has /dev/dsp > open. Browsers need sound like fish need pancakes, but some people > want it, apparently. > > To modify this behavior, either dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-browser, > edit the file yourself, or just copy it to ~/.mozillarc. Your > choices for the DSP option are apparently Choices: auto, esddsp, > artsdsp, rplaydsp, none (taken from > /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-browser.templates) Thanks. I had already tried setting MOZILLA_DSP=none, but the script resets it somewhere. I'll probably just edit the script rather than debug it further. Especially since you note that > On a side note, mozilla-browser is dead upstream. It's time to find a > new favorite browser. Yeah. I'm open to suggestions. I installed firefox but found it a bit busy and not to my liking. It also has some weird behavior on page-up/page-down that I can't get over. (I reported the bug, the maintainer sees different behavior, I still see it with a pref-less install.) I should probably play with it more, since the whole world seems to like firefox, which means all other browsers will tend to behave like it sooner or later... > As to why fuser hangs, I have no idea - strace will probably tell > you better than I can guess. That sounds like a bug worth > reporting. You are the voice of wisdom, as always. The fuser hang is because of a stat call on /proc/31352/cwd, which corresponds to a bash process whose cwd is on an NFS (actually SFS) mount but whose server is currently down. I'm not sure that that's a bug in fuser so much as a conceptual bug in the file system. ;-) -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://jeff.purple.com/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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