[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #321: pulseaudio continually locks up my GNOME desktop

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#321: pulseaudio continually locks up my GNOME desktop
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  Reporter:  jstedfast  |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  highest    |   Milestone:         
 Component:  daemon     |    Severity:  blocker
Resolution:             |    Keywords:         
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Comment (by ali1234):

 This sounds similar to a problem I was experiencing.

 My Gnome desktop was set to use pulse as output. If I were to launch a
 program which used ALSA directly it would take control of the sound card
 and block pulse from making any sound. If any Gnome application tried to
 make a sound during this time, it would not be heard.

 The lock happened when I quit the ALSA-using program. At this point,
 whatever sound was played by pulse during the period in which the sound
 card was in use would play continuously in a loop of about 50 msec. Gnome
 panel would stop responding and new programs could not be launched. The
 only way out was to switch to a console and reboot the computer.

 The work around for me was to make sure no programs were using ALSA
 directly. For me this only happened in Ubuntu 8.04 and seems to have been
 fixed in Ubuntu 8.10 (beta) as now ALSA apps get "magically" redirected to
 pulse somehow.

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/321#comment:6>
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