[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #752: asyncns timeout causes delay when pulseaudio service not running

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#752: asyncns timeout causes delay when pulseaudio service not running
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  Reporter:  jezaustin  |       Owner:  lennart                   
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                       
 Milestone:             |   Component:  core                      
Resolution:             |    Keywords:  asyncns timeout socket DNS
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Comment(by jezaustin):

 As I suspected, a kernel configured with CONFIG_IPV6 doesn't pause:
 {{{
 $ PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat
 Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size
 is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472
 Trying to connect to /home/jra/.pulse/c00984e45ca680c114160c07498b171f-
 runtime/native...
 connect(): No such file or directory (2)
 Trying to connect to /home/jra/.pulse/native...
 connect(): No such file or directory (2)
 Trying to connect to /var/run/pulse/native...
 connect(): No such file or directory (2)
 Trying to connect to tcp4:127.0.0.1...
 connect(): Connection refused
 Trying to connect to tcp6:[::1]...
 connect(): Connection refused
 Trying to autospawn...
 D: caps.c: Cleaning up privileges.
 Trying to connect to /home/jra/.pulse/c00984e45ca680c114160c07498b171f-
 runtime/native...
 SHM possible: yes
 Protocol version: remote 16, local 16
 Negotiated SHM: yes
 Currently in use: 1 blocks containing 63.9 KiB bytes total.
 Allocated during whole lifetime: 3 blocks containing 127.9 KiB bytes
 total.
 Sample cache size: 0 B
 User name: jra
 Host Name: harrison
 Server Name: pulseaudio
 Server Version: 0.9.21
 Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
 Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
 Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
 Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
 Cookie: 7b3d5ae8
 }}}

 Unless you consider a kernel without IPv6 to be broken, this is a bug.

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/752#comment:7>
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