Glitch-Free PulseAudio in Rawhide

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 20.05.08 01:11, Dimi Paun (dimi at lattica.com) wrote:

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> On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 22:02 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > Also, if you claim that I neglect longstanding important bugs, then
> > please be more specific and tell me exactly the bug numbers.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438594
> 
> PA crashes mathematically for me, and nobody seems to care,
> despite the fact that I run a fairly standard Fedora 8.
> 
> The user experience is horrible too:
>   * PA decides the exit/crash at random

So, as I asked in the bug report, are you using the "multi" libasound
plugin for your soundcard? (find out with the -v switch from aplay.)
Also, have you touched default.pa or the other config files in any way?

>   * Rhythmbox locks up hard, sometimes using 100% CPU

This is just a followup on the first item.  the gst module tries to
signal the error condition to gst. Fun thing is, gst locks up when
doing this due to a deadlock. Apparently some of the methods of a gst
are not allowed to signal any error conditions. I pinged the GST
people, but never got a response from them whether this
should be fixed in GST or in gst-pulse. I'll try to ping them again.

There's a bug on bz.g.o about this.

>   * Volume Control gives a cryptic error about a connection being lost

Is it really that cryptic? It says exactly what happened: the
connection to the sound server is lost.

>   * Skype no longer works, in strange ways (i.e. Sound In fails)

Ah, great, closed source software. That's where I especially like to fix
bugs in.

>   * Unless you know (how?!?) that you need a 'pulseaudio -D', you
>     have to reboot the machine to get working sound

I guess that's something one could say about 99% of all bugs.

> And all this happens after 1-2h of listening to stuff.

This is one bug, not 5. 

We probably should move further discussion about this back to BZ, and
not continue spamming fedroa-devel.

Lennart

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