Pulseaudio update issue... [ UPDATE 2 ]

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:03:00 -0700, "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael at gnat.ca> said:

NDN> So it seems it is related to thunderbird. I have the preference set to
NDN> play a sound when new mail arrives. After it has, sounds is messed
NDN> up... Bug with thunderbird I presume?

I don't think so.  I think my current F12 has much much deeper issues.
They seem somewhat sound related and somewhat not.  All my
sound-producing applications don't work any longer.  Typically the first
sound works and everything after that freezes.  But it's not just sound
applications that seem to be freezing.  Many applications (firefox) seem
to randomly hang as well.  Invariably when I check them with strace to
see what they're doing they're always hung on a futex() call.

Maybe they're all trying to pipe through pulseaudio and that's the root
cause.  Considering how many flash applications thees days produce sound
it wouldn't surprise me that the root of my firefox problems are in fact
sound.

In the end though, pretty much nothing sound related is working for me.
I'm currently playing music on my phone instead because amarok and even
xmms are completely DOA for me right now.
-- 
Wes Hardaker                                     
My Pictures:  http://capturedonearth.com/
My Thoughts:  http://pontifications.hardakers.net/