Bug#407612: beep-media-player goes to background instead of stopping when it should close
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Steve Langasek wrote:
> severity 407612 important
> tags 407612 unreproducible moreinfo
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 08:39:20AM +0200, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
>> I just realised that beep-media-player doesn't close itself when it
>> should, instead it just backgrounds itself. I found out this when (after
>> a few starts and stops of the player) applications started crashing on
>> me (being killed by the kernel due to lack of resources).
>> This behaviour can be reliably reproduced on my system with this
>> 1) make sure there is no running instance of the player:
>> eddy@bounty ~ $ killall beep-media-player
>> beep-media-player: no process killed
>> 2) start the player:
>> eddy@bounty ~ $ beep-media-player
>> 3) start playing a song and close the player while is playing (through
>> the graphical interface) - this will result in music still being played
>> - BUG!
>> 4) CTRL+Z in the console
> Definitely not reproducible here. When I click the X in the corner of the
> GUI, the process exits. Likewise if I choose 'quit' from the menu.
What arch? I am using amd64 (on an Intel Core 2 Duo).
>> Because it causes unexpected behaviour (doesn't die when it should
>> terminate) and thus occupies memory making unrelated software not start
>> I think this is bug should be critical.
>> Even if the bug is downgraded (is at least important), Etch should not
>> ship the software in such a broken state.
> Even if this bug was reproducible, I don't see how a process not exiting
> should ever be critical.
As I said, unrelated software do not start since they are killed by the kernel
due to lack of resources (taken by the running instances of bmp "running" in
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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