[Asterisk-Dev] SPAM MESSAGE - [Asterisk-Users] warning message (sound card) - when I run asterisk!!!

[creslin at digium.com]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:05:00AM +0800, Neo Jia wrote:
>   == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/oss.conf': Found
> May 26 00:37:58 WARNING[-1168819280]: chan_oss.c:238
> sound_thread: Read error on sound device: Resource
> temporarily unavailable

It looks like your audio device is already opened by another program.
If you're running KDE, make sure that artsd is not running (killall -9
artsd) before you run asterisk.  If another program has opened the sound
device a lot of times you cannot open and utilize it with another
program.

Matthew Fredrickson