pulseaudio causing crashing of applications
Andrew Farris
lordmorgul at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 22:19:37 UTC 2008
Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 13.02.08 13:20, Andrew Farris (lordmorgul at gmail.com) wrote:
>> Correction. Rhythmbox froze during AND after the session was inactive,
>> making it permanently frozen (dead, defunct, useless). This is definitely
>> wrong. So its an issue with how gst (and by extension rhythmbox) handle
>> things, inappropriately in that case. But it was a problem.
>
> This sounds as if some other process blocked the audio device when
> switching back the session so that PA was unable to reopen the device
> and thus playback stays suspended.
>
> Could you please check this, by running "pactl" in a terminal when
> this happens again, and then type "list-sinks"? If your sound card
> sink remains in SUSPENDED state, than this is most likely the issue.
>
> Or, you might have hit the well-known issue HAL where it fails to
> restore ACLs sometimes and thus PA is not able to reopen the device
> properly. Check getfacl /dev/snd/*
I will try to look into that, although I'm also seeing some freezes of rhythmbox
without the VT change which may be unrelated. Those clues will help I wasn't
aware of them.
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