Sebastian Stein wrote:
> The Real Slim Shady <Stan@your.house.com> wrote:
>
>>I would start with checking the ram. Sounds like a hardware problem.
>
>
> I know this is the standard answers to questions like my one, but I'm pretty
> sure it is not a hardware problem. I think alsa is buggy, because the reboot
> only happens while changing between songs.
>
> Furthermore I found, that after I rebooted the machine, I first have to run:
>
> mpg321 some.mp3
>
> And then mjs to be able to hear anything. Otherwise all programs complain, that
> the sound device can not be opened. I also tried mp3blaster in the meantime.
> The same crashes, also during song switching. The interesting thing is, that I
> can reproduce the reboot with mp3blaster. I boot the machine and run
> mp3blaster to play a song. Immediately I play the first song the machine
> reboots, if I have not done the mpg321 trick first as described above.
>
> So any ideas what I can do to fix it?
>
> Sebastian

still could be a hardware problem.

not saying yours is, but here's mine:
Overclocked Athlon 1.33 -> 1.46
running Slackware 9.1
no problems for weeks.
backing up my profile I get a segmentation fault in gzip.
After trying a bunch of stuff thinking it was a disk problem I reclocked
back to stock and no more segfault.

Do you have a second machine? Can you copy the files over and try there?

Ray