[pulseaudio-discuss] "Aborted" when starting on iMac

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 11.11.07 08:32, Bill Moseley (moseley at hank.org) wrote:

> And "pa aux | grep pul" does not show it running.  I have a newer G4
> iBook that works just fine when booting off the same LTSP server.
> 
> If I try and manually start pulseaudio on the client I see:
> 
>     root at ltsp:~# pulseaudio --system --disable-shm --no-cup-limit -n
>     pic.c: stale PID file, overwriting.
>     Aborted
> 
> I ran it with strace, but it doesn't seem to offer any help:
> 
>     http://hank.org/pulseaudio_strace.txt
> 
> Only:
> 
> --- SIGILL (Illegal instruction) @ 0 (0) ---
> 
> Again, it works on a G4 powerpc iBook, but not on the Bondi.
> 
> Can you offer debugging suggestions?

The strace does not really help.

As already suggested, please provide me with a full gdb back trace
when the problem happens.

Somehow some kind of miscompliation has happened. Some code in PA uses
CPU opcodes that are not valid or not available on your CPU. 

Lennart

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