[SOLVED] OSS4 initial service start fails

JohnLM · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 Location: LATVIA

EDIT: Marked as solved... see this post below for solution.

To make it short.
I've installed oss4, but it fails to start!

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:38 pm Post subject:

If you compiled ALSA into the kernel it would stop oss4 from loading.
If you compiled ALSA as modules and they are loaded, same thing.

what does
grep -E "ALSA|SOUND" /usr/src/linux/.config
return
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JohnLM · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 Location: LATVIA

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:46 pm Post subject:

what does "ossdetect -v" return (needs to be run as root)

I have mine set to

JohnLM · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 Location: LATVIA

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:15 pm Post subject:

which version of oss4 are you using?
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JohnLM · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 Location: LATVIA

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:57 pm Post subject:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=213194

save it as oss-4.2.2002.ebuild in your local overlay, and run ebuild manifest on it.
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JohnLM · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 Location: LATVIA

Cool, local ebuilds are something new for me...
but a failure again.

EDIT: fixed the ebuild, but now another error jumped out

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:38 pm Post subject:

are you root when you try and install the ebuild?

How are you trying to install it?
with "emerge -v oss"
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JohnLM · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 Location: LATVIA

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:13 pm Post subject:

Something doesn't seem right with your setup.

what does "emerge --info" return
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JohnLM · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 Location: LATVIA

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:43 pm Post subject:

Could you post the build log /var/tmp/portage/media-sound/oss-4.2.2002/temp/build.log -- use http://pastebin.com/

and post what the link is
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JohnLM · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 Location: LATVIA

For my convenience I dumped the thing on my site.
http://johnlm.hopto.org/oss-4.2.2002_build.log.bz2

P.S.
:/me thinking to himself (out loud): Why do bugs in my posts are so cryptic.
Hopefully because I don't waste forum's resources with trivial ones.

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Anon-E-moose · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:20 am Post subject:

I'm not really sure what is going on.
There may be something left over from a previous emerge

try doing "emerge --depclean oss" and then "emerge -v oss"

it worked fine for me when I did, but it's a while back so this is all from memory.
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JohnLM · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 Location: LATVIA

Well if there's nothing else, then it must be the CONFIG_REGPARM kernel option. Google says it's an obsolete (removed in 2.6.19) setting and applicable for i386 anyway.

I'm building for x86_64 (or the amd64) and I have no REGPARM option. So how do I force oss ebuild (and the module build in first oss startup) to use --no-regparm argument?
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Anon-E-moose · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:54 am Post subject:

Mine build with the regparm option. So doubtful it's that.

It acts like it only partially installs, which I don't understand.

Edit to add: I did look at your build log and this stands out

JohnLM · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 Location: LATVIA

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:48 pm Post subject:

Got me scratching my head, and I don't know what else to tell you, to get it going.
You're right about the "-O3" flag, I just checked my build.
I am going to assume that you have linux-headers installed

Yeah, you might put in a bug report.

or

go to the oss forum http://4front-tech.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
and see if they know what is going on. (I think you have to join to post)
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JohnLM · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 71 Location: LATVIA

SUCCESS!!!

I used https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=213156 instead. It doesn't try to compile modules in ebuild, but compiles them as soundon gets run.
Now works like a charm, well osstest at least.
Anon-E-moose, thanks for the help!

For reference and for sake of sanity of people going through the same thing... a step by step problem solver.
1. Try the oss-overlay ebuilds.
They didn't work for me, but they will get updated sometime. Then again, if you're reading this it is likely oss-overlay ebuilds didn't work for you either. Moving on...

2. Create your local overlay repository if you don't have one.
See http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay#Local_Overlays for info since it is out of scope for this topic and you should understand what you're doing.

3. Save https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=213156 as oss-4.2.2002.ebuild and put it in your local overlay.
Assuming usual paths it should be /usr/local/portage/media-sound/oss/oss-4.2.2002.ebuild

4. Build a manifest file for the ebuild.

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:40 pm Post subject:

glad it's solved.

The link on bugs.gentoo for all the ebuilds is https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184123
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