Debian Bug report logs - #802935
man page should say how to stop speaker-test

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Package: alsa-utils; Maintainer for alsa-utils is Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for alsa-utils is src:alsa-utils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 11:27:10 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in versions alsa-utils/1.0.29-1, alsa-utils/1.1.3-1

Forwarded to http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2017-August/123754.html

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#802935; Package alsa-utils. (Sun, 25 Oct 2015 11:27:14 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Sun, 25 Oct 2015 11:27:14 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: man page should say how to stop speaker-test
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 19:19:32 +0800
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.29-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/speaker-test

1. The speaker-test man page does not mention how to stop speaker-test.

Please say on the speaker-test man page how to stop speaker-test.

2. ^C can take many seconds to stop speaker-test.

This is very bad as one might need silence right now as the security
guard is coming down the corridor, mom got up to use the washroom and
will go past our door, etc. Ms. Nibbens is checking all floors, etc.

I did some tests, and
$ speaker-test & sleep 2; killall -1 speaker-test #works right away!
$ speaker-test & sleep 2; killall -2 speaker-test # ^C, needs many seconds
$ speaker-test & sleep 2; killall    speaker-test #needs many seconds

Set Bug forwarded-to-address to 'http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2017-August/123754.html'. Request was from Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:18:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Marked as found in versions alsa-utils/1.1.3-1. Request was from Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:18:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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