[asterisk-users] error on alsa

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 31 December 2008 08:54:56 Jerry Geis wrote:
> I am calling into an asterisk machine using console/dsp
> initially I head the voice just fine on the speaker, after about 30
> seconds or so
> I get the error:
>
> [Dec 31 09:51:36] NOTICE[11724]: chan_alsa.c:642 alsa_write: Error -11
> on write
>  << Hangup on console >>
>
> I am running alsa 1.4.22 , dahdi 2.0.0 and dahdi_dummy.
> centos 5.2 kernel 2.6.18-91.1.13
>
> Of course the call hangs up at that point.
> What might be wrong here?

Error 11 is "Resource temporarily unavailable", so it sounds like something
else is accessing the sound port.  Check the other services running on this
machine.  For example, are you running a desktop environment that might
send sounds to the speaker?

-- 
Tilghman