[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #179: set-default-sink with wrong sink name fatal even when in .nofail section

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#179: set-default-sink with wrong sink name fatal even when in .nofail section
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 Reporter:  pixelpapst                |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect                    |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:         
Component:  daemon                    |    Severity:  normal 
 Keywords:  .nofail set-default-sink  |  
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 Hi all,
 my default.pa ends like this:
 {{{
 .nofail
 set-default-sink alsa_output.pci_1274_5880_alsa_playback_0
 }}}

 Now, after upgrade to 0.9.8, for some reason module-detect-hal loads the
 oss driver instead of alsa, so the sink name is different. However, the
 deamon aborts after ~1 sec. with:

 {{{
 E: main.c: daemon/main.c : Fatal error. Default sink name
 (alsa_output.pci_1274_5880_alsa_playback_0) does not exist in name
 register.
 }}}

 I would expect only a warning here. From the short delay and error message
 I assume that the name is cached and only looked up later - at which point
 the missing sink is fatal.

 IMHO it would be better to implement some non-fatal error behaviour, since
 I also load module-rescue-streams for such occasions. :)

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/179>
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