[linux-audio-user] how to force an alsa midi cleanup?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 03:12 -0700, Robert Persson wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 May 2006 19:56 you were like:
> > On 5/16/06, Robert Persson <ireneshusband at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > The situation I have right at the moment is that the connection graph in
> > > qjackctl is showing midi ports for rosegarden, even though there is no
> > > rosegarden running (I have double-checked using "ps -A | grep rose").
> >
> > I've been having this problem a lot lately with Rosegarden.  I'm using
> > Rosegarden4.  I've been getting rid of it by doing "killall
> > rosegarden4".  The Rosegarden sequencer process is named something
> > different, like "rosegardensequencer".  You might try killing that as
> > well.
> 
> I've done all those things -- clicked refresh, killalled rosegarden and 
> anything like rosegarden, kill -9ed rosegarden, kill -9ed anything to do with 
> wine or dssi, then chopped them up and fed them to the wolves, and then blown 
> up the wolves. But it's still there. And now it's been joined by non-existent 
> session of muse sequencer (which hadn't been behaving at all even when it did 
> exist, at least as far as midi connections went).
> 
> I guess I've got to get around to that reboot I was planning.

Most probably. 
Have you checked /var/log/messages and/or the output of dmesg? Most
probably you will find a kernel oops that somehow touched the alsa
driver only. A reboot is the only option if that happened. 

-- Fernando