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  1. Bug #76876
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 76876

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joudy (joudy) wrote : Re: /dev/dsp busy, but no program using it

Hi, I had the same problem with this error message Device or resource busy. Command lsof /dev/dsp or /dev/audio gave me no output. But lsof | grep /dev/snd/ showed me some process using files in this directory which is used by ALSA. Killing these process solved my problem.

However it is still interesting why some programs can made ALSA busy.

Dundee