[pygame] [FYI] Pygame + Recent Linux Kernel Updates + ALSA

[Chris Ashurst <CAshurst@xxxxxxxx>]

Not sure how many people this may have affected (if any at all), but if any
of you develop with pygame in a *nix environment and have recently performed
a kernel update and found pygame not getting anywhere past pygame.init(),
it's because of ALSA locking up whenever it is called by any software that
uses it.

I figured this out by splitting out the call to pygame.init() to pretty much
every module that has an init method, and seeing it fail on hooking into
ALSA (and also MPD, Neverwinter Nights, and lots of other software).

The solution that I found was to first remove and then reinstall ALSA on my
system, and then finally disable any network interfaces that did not have an
active connection (I use wireless, but my machine has a built in wired
network port that had somehow re-enabled itself silently at some point).

Anyway, this is just an FYI to anyone who might have been hit by something
similar recently.


~Chris




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