Re: [fluid-dev] Subversion checkins

[Josh Green]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 21:57 -0500, David Hilvert wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:31:13 -0700
> Josh Green <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I wonder what the technical reason for the crash was though.  
> 
> I've looked into this more closely; it appears that I may have been fooled by
> the intermittent nature of the problem, and that qsynth is still not working
> correctly.  To attempt to reconstruct what occurred:
> 
> Remove fluidsynth and qsynth Debian packages.
> 
> Rebuild fluidsynth
> 
> Test qsynth ... fails once
> 
> Rebuild qsynth
> 
> Test qsynth ... works several times in a row.
> 
> (I send a message suggesting that rebuilding qsynth may fix the problem, and
> that header files may be the cause.)
> 
> (Receive your message above.)
> 
> Install Debian qsynth package again.
> 
> Test qsynth ... fails
> 
> (At this point, it looks like header files aren't the cause, but having a
> Debian qsynth package installed on the same system might be.)
> 
> Remove Debian qsynth package.
> 
> Test qsynth ... works several times in a row.
> 
> Install Debian qsynth package.
> 
> Test qsynth ... fails several tests.
> 
> Remove Debian qsynth package.
> 
> Test qsynth ... intermittently fails.
> 
> Do hash -c and ldconfig
> 
> Test qsynth ... intermittently fails.
> 
> 
> It appears that qsynth is still broken, and that an apparent link to whether
> the Debian qsynth package is installed may be entirely absent, merely an 
> artifact
> of the intermittent nature of the failures.  Header files at the time of
> compilation seem similarly dubious as a cause, as it seems that the Debian
> qsynth and fluidsynth packages did not include these, and that slocate does 
> not find
> any other fluidsynth.h files (or fluidsynth.so).


Bummer, I was hoping to write that one off ;)  Perhaps running valgrind
on QSynth might yield something interesting (if not just making it run
too slow to actually work).  If anyone else is also having this issue,
that could also shed some light on what the hardware/system commonality
is.
        Josh