[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 85483] Please make debugging easier

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85483

--- Comment #1 from Martin Steigerwald <Martin at Lichtvoll.de> ---
It would be good if users want to help with bug reporting do not have to go
through this

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85445#c2

and this

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85445#c3

to just provide a (hopefully) usable debug log.


Actual results:

I had to search around for approaches of doing a PulseAudio debug log and none
of them I found actually worked.

Expected results:

>From a running desktop session I do:

- something like pulseaudio-debug > file
- reproduce the issue
- Ctrl-C pulseaudio-debug
- send the file along with the bug report

I know this needs some implementation effort, but the core functionality for
logging is already there. And it would save cost on bug reporting considerably.

Killing PulseAudio daemon and restarting with debug option just didn´t work in
a KDE session here. Maybe it works in other desktops tough. But if its supposed
to work everywhere, then feel free to take this as a bug instead. But I don´t
know how KDE would be special there. Yes, regarding to Phonon, the multimedia
framework they use… but PlaneShift was using OpenAL directly so no Phonon
there, but still didn´t play anything after I stopped the pulseaudio daemon
started with the desktop session and start a debugging one.

Also as wish: Some ducumentation on how to do debugging with PulseAudio. I am
offering to at least add the hints how I managed to get a log with KDE session.

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