elmussol

Paul Taylor

elmussol@elsmussols.net

Location:: in the mountains near

Xerta

Catalunya

Spain

Hometown:: Clitheroe

Gender:: Mostly Male

Status:: Happy

courier companies

elmussol

Xerta, Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:43:52 +0100

All bastards and liars. DHL allegedly travelled, by road, 101km from depot to delivery address in 13 minutes this morning (that's 466km/h). It took me 14 minutes to drive from my house to delivery address, which is 6.5km -- and so I missed the oil tin delivery. We will try again tomorrow.

el veciet

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:09:59 +0100

3 times I had to deal with DHL, 3 times I had problems.
:(

ghostdancer

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:19:24 +0100 from ActivityPub

@elmussol Looks like DHL now has an air delivery team with helicopters. Otherwise would love to see how they stop the trucks at that speed.

elmussol

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:13:02 +0100

elmussol is now connected to Timo

Schrödinger's version

elmussol

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:52:23 +0100

I have an indeterminate version target.

elmussol posted a new photo to screenshots

Harald Eilertsen

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:07:09 +0100

You got cats in your machinery?

elmussol

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:12:13 +0100

I reobservered with a shift-F5 and it was gone.

my butt has stopped working

elmussol

Xerta, Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:15:32 +0100

You may be aware that I do the tech infra for a local internet radio station called Topcat Radio. The live DJs use a cross-platform FOSS piece of software called butt (broadcast using this tool).

Recently it has stopped working on my two Debian Testing laptops and I don't know where to begin to debug, so I'm just going to dump some output and see if any wisdom flows my way.

pault@hodder:~$ butt &
[1] 26565
pault@hodder:~$ ALSA lib pcm.c:2664:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2664:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2664:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:877:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:877:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:877:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:877:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:397:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Cannot open device /dev/dsp
ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:397:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Cannot open device /dev/dsp
ALSA lib pcm_a52.c:1001:(_snd_pcm_a52_open) a52 is only for playback
ALSA lib confmisc.c:160:(snd_config_get_card) Invalid field card
ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:482:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid card 'card'
ALSA lib confmisc.c:160:(snd_config_get_card) Invalid field card
ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:482:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid card 'card'
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
Reading config /home/pault/.buttrc
[SWR @ 0x1a80a00] Input channel count and layout are unset
ALSA lib rate_lavrate.c:113:(pcm_src_init) sw_init() error -22

[SWR @ 0x1a80a00] Input channel count and layout are unset
ALSA lib rate_lavrate.c:113:(pcm_src_init) sw_init() error -22

[SWR @ 0x1a80a00] Input channel count and layout are unset
ALSA lib rate_lavrate.c:113:(pcm_src_init) sw_init() error -22

[SWR @ 0x1a80a00] Input channel count and layout are unset
ALSA lib rate_lavrate.c:113:(pcm_src_init) sw_init() error -22

[SWR @ 0x1a80a00] Input channel count and layout are unset
ALSA lib rate_lavrate.c:113:(pcm_src_init) sw_init() error -22

[SWR @ 0x1a80a00] Input channel count and layout are unset
ALSA lib rate_lavrate.c:113:(pcm_src_init) sw_init() error -22

[SWR @ 0x1a80a00] Input channel count and layout are unset
ALSA lib rate_lavrate.c:113:(pcm_src_init) sw_init() error -22

[SWR @ 0x1a80a00] Input channel count and layout are unset
ALSA lib rate_lavrate.c:113:(pcm_src_init) sw_init() error -22

[SWR @ 0x1a80a00] Input channel count and layout are unset
ALSA lib rate_lavrate.c:113:(pcm_src_init) sw_init() error -22

Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736
Expression 'AlsaOpen( hostApi, parameters, streamDir, &pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1768
Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736
Expression 'AlsaOpen( hostApi, parameters, streamDir, &pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1768
Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736
Expression 'AlsaOpen( hostApi, parameters, streamDir, &pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1768
Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736
Expression 'AlsaOpen( hostApi, parameters, streamDir, &pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1768

butt

EVAnaRkISTO

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:46:50 +0100

@elmussol Seems ALSA is not recognizing the sound card.

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=20733 suggests to delete (better rename them) these two files in your home directory:
.asoundrc
.asoundrc.asoundconf

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=136974 explains changes to be made in alsa.conf

Hope this helps.

elmussol

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 23:44:32 +0100

Thanks. I am however an confused as QuodLibet is playing audio and VLC works playing video. Not having an understanding of how the subsystems interact with each other is not helping. I will have a poke around tomorrow.

elmussol

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 09:09:12 +0100

elmussol is now connected to chava

elmussol

Sun, 02 Jan 2022 14:29:19 +0100

elmussol is now connected to Kazimierz Kurz

more riches in the Public Domain

elmussol

Xerta, Sun, 02 Jan 2022 11:41:56 +0100

Should've posted this yesterday, but didn't get to read the article till just now. From the always diverting Public Domain Review: Happy Public Domain Day 2022!.

I notice that @whistlewright ðŸ—¿ has also posted on this, but I don't have the privs to comment there.