http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1206760 Bug ID: 1206760 Summary: Audio device locked / exclusively blocked for user session Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 15.4 Hardware: x86-64 OS: openSUSE Leap 15.4 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Sound Assignee: tiwai@suse.com Reporter: friedemann@fschmieg.de QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- The situation is like that: I use a secondary audio card to play sounds based on home automation events. This worked fine probably until I upgraded from 15.3 to 15.4 (in September), however I am not 100% sure that this was the breaking change as I did not explicitly test it then and did not realize it until November 12. Now, if I try to use the secondary audio card as a different user than the one logged into the desktop, I get the following error output: aplay: main:831: audio open error: Device or resource busy This worked previously. Now, I have not found a solution yet, but one option might be to offer a way to exclude certain devices from being used by the desktop environment. Searching the internet for the problem, I found this, but I am not sure whether this is related: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216500 Thank you! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.