[pulseaudio-discuss] pstream.c: Failed to import memory block.

[Jon Smirl]

On 11/20/07, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 20.11.07 12:57, Jon Smirl (jonsmirl at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> >
> > On 11/20/07, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 07.11.07 15:49, Jon Smirl (jonsmirl at gmail.com) wrote:
> > >
> > > > My logs are full of these using 0.9.6 on Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > > Nov  6 18:25:17 terra pulseaudio[6651]: pstream.c: Failed to import
> > > > memory block.
> > >
> > > This looks like a permission problem in /dev/shm. Does the PA daemon
> > > run as different user than the client?
> >
> > jonsmirl at terra:/dev$ ls -ld /dev/shm
> > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 40 2007-11-20 12:44 /dev/shm
> > jonsmirl at terra:/dev$ mount | grep shm
> > devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> > jonsmirl at terra:/dev$
>
> What are the access modes of the pulse files in /dev/shm?

jonsmirl at terra:/dev/shm$ ls -la
total 8
drwxrwxrwt  2 root  root       60 2007-11-20 13:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root  root    14740 2007-11-20 09:07 ..
-r--------  1 pulse pulse 2097152 2007-11-20 13:39 pulse-shm-4056509080
jonsmirl at terra:/dev/shm$



>
> > I'm uninstalled pulse again. I am having a recurring problem with the
> > volume range on Intel HDA.
> > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
> > Controller (rev 02)
> >
> > Kernel is git head.
> >
> > I have to turn the volume up to 100% in pulse, my apps and my speakers
> > to be able to hear anything. If I remove pulse my volume is ok.
>
> Sounds like a problem with ALSA softvol. Right now ALSA offers no way
> to detect if a volume control track is real or just emulated. We're
> waiting for some ALSA changes before I can fix this.

I'm running using ALSA drivers.
Intel HDA, STAC92xx codec.

Pulse is unusable on my system without fixing the volume problem.

I've filed some bugs in trac about USB audio on pulse. You said they
were HAL problems, have the HAL developers been nagged appropriately?


>
> > That was with pulse 0.9.6-1ubuntu2
> >
> > >
> > > Also, please upgrade to 0.9.7.
> >
> > Is there a repo with Gutsy packages?
>
> Dunno, ask the Ubuntu people.
>
> Lennart
>
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Jon Smirl
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