[Python-Dev] Mandrake 8.2 anyone?

[Guido van Rossum]

> Specifically, the first time I ran it earlier today (fresh cvs update,
> make distclean, configure, make test), the test suite hung in
> test_linuxaudiodev.  Running that test manually also produced a hang.
> These weren't killable, even with kill -9, C-\, or C-z, and couldn't
> be gdb attached to.
> 
> So I rebooted and tried again.  This time the tests don't hang but
> they do fail:
> 
> test test_linuxaudiodev crashed -- linuxaudiodev.error: (0, 'Error')

Fred has a good solution for this:

  chmod 0 /dev/audio

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)