Hello Lee, thanks for your advise. > > Does kill -9 work? If not, please run "dmesg" and check for a kernel Oops. > > Lee Well, kill -9 doesn't work either. If I use dmesg I get the following output.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000080 printing eip: f97cf077 *pde = 00000000 stopped custom tracer. Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: snd_seq_dummy radeon drm xt_pkttype ipt_LOG xt_limit af_packet snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq thermal processor button battery ac ip6t_REJECT xt_tcpudp ipt_REJECT xt_state iptable_mangle iptable_nat ip_nat iptable_filter ip6table_mangle ip_conntrack nfnetlink ip_tables ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables ipv6 nls_utf8 ntfs nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod snd_usb_audio snd_usb_lib snd_hwdep usbhid ff_memless ide_cd snd_ice1712 snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx snd_ak4xxx_adda snd_cs8427 snd_ac97_codec cdrom ns558 snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_ac97_bus snd_i2c snd_mpu401 snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device sk98lin gameport snd soundcore shpchp pci_hotplug forcedeth ehci_hcd ohci_hcd ohci1394 ieee1394 nvidia_agp agpgart i2c_nforce2 usbcore i2c_core parport_pc lp parport ext3 mbcache jbd edd fan sata_sil libata amd74xx sd_mod scsi_mod ide_disk ide_core CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<f97cf077>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.19-5-rt #1) EIP is at snd_ice1712_capture_open+0x26/0x45 [snd_ice1712] eax: 00000000 ebx: f58e9000 ecx: 0000000b edx: ffffffff esi: f42a5c00 edi: 00000001 ebp: e80a6280 esp: f5577e78 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 preempt: 00000001 Process audacity (pid: 4192, ti=f5576000 task=f5f74e90 task.ti=f5576000) Stack: 00000000 f5577eb4 f9775fc1 f5577e88 f5942c00 fffffff2 f6f1f200 f97760e3 f5577eb4 00000001 00000000 f5f74e90 c011dd0d f6f1f364 f6f1f364 e80a6280 f5a01ca0 f9705620 00000000 e80a6280 f96f9394 c013d9d1 f5a05598 00000000 Call Trace: [<f9775fc1>] snd_pcm_open_substream+0x3c/0x76 [snd_pcm] [<f97760e3>] snd_pcm_open+0xe8/0x226 [snd_pcm] [<c011dd0d>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x16 [<f96f9394>] snd_open+0x107/0x203 [snd] [<c013d9d1>] rt_down+0xe/0x26 [<c0172589>] chrdev_open+0x12d/0x161 [<c017245c>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x161 [<c016e9f3>] __dentry_open+0xea/0x1ea [<c016eb6d>] nameidata_to_filp+0x24/0x33 [<c016ebb3>] do_filp_open+0x37/0x3e [<c017a3e6>] fasync_helper+0xb6/0xbf [<c016e8ff>] get_unused_fd+0xb9/0xc3 [<c016ec00>] do_sys_open+0x46/0xc8 [<c016ecbb>] sys_open+0x1c/0x1e [<c0103f5d>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x79 ======================= Code: a0 c6 31 c0 c3 56 b9 38 00 00 00 53 8b 70 70 ba c0 4c 7d f9 8b 58 08 89 43 54 8d 86 ec 00 00 00 e8 ef 2d a0 c6 8b 83 a0 00 00 00 <8b> 80 80 00 00 00 a8 02 89 86 f8 00 00 00 75 0a c7 86 fc 00 00 EIP: [<f97cf077>] snd_ice1712_capture_open+0x26/0x45 [snd_ice1712] SS:ESP 0068:f5577e78 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... unfortunately I have nearly no idea what this is telling me. Are there some information about a possible reason to find in this output? I would assume that the answer is in the first line: a null pointer dereference in the kernel. Well, seems like i have to ask the JAD guys, right? Best regards, Sebastian. web: http://linuxaudioblog.sternenhejim.de _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user