Rdesktop segmentation fault

Mark Phillips <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.rdesktop.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have been using rdesktop (1.5.0) (and grdesktop v 0.23) for about 6 months 
without any issues. I use them to connect to a Windows XP machine on a local 
network. I am running rdesktop on a new Debian Etch machine.

I installed alsa earlier this week (I had no sound before this), and now 
rdesktop (grdesktop) has become flaky. grdesktop quits every few minutes with 
the error message 

/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

If I use rdesktop from the command line, it still quits and I get a 
Segmentation fault. The command I am using is:

rdesktop -u mark -p ******** -f -a 16 -k en-us dumbo

I looked through the archives and found some references to problems with arts 
and esd. Both seem to be running on my debian machine:

mark@narwhale:~$ ps aux | grep arts
mark      9057  0.3  0.7  21816  7956 ?        S    13:47   
1:05 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f

mark@narwhale:~$ ps aux | grep esd
mark      4709  0.0  0.1   3316  1856 ?        SL   Apr17   
0:00 /usr/bin/esd -nobeeps
mark      4712  0.0  0.0   3036   512 ?        Ss   Apr17   
0:00 /usr/bin/esd -nobeeps
mark     25094  0.0  0.0   1948   620 pts/0    R+   18:46   0:00 grep esd

I have tried the following:

artsdsp -m grdesktop

esddsp grdesktop

and the problem persists. 

I have tried killing artsd and esd, and again no change. artsd comes back by 
itself and esd stays dead.

When I reconnect to the Windows machine, everything is where I left it. It is 
just annoying to have to reconnect every few minutes.

If you can shed any light on this problem, I would be very greatfull!

Thanks!

-- 
Mark 

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