pulseaudio causing crashing of applications

[Andrew Farris]

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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