[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio closes suddenly

[Sladan]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 24.07.08 19:17, Sladan (sladivadi at aon.at) wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have a problem because Pulseaudio very often stops when using 
>> Aptitude. This also happens sometimes while just browsing the web.
>> I always listen to an internet readio mms stream and suddenly the music 
>> stops. I then have to restart Pulseaudio which I can use until the next 
>> shutdown of it.
>> People in the IRC helped me to post the output here: 
>> http://pastebin.com/m286d0691
>> Then I also tried with '--no-cpu-limit' option. This caused Pulseaudio 
>> to use 99%-100% CPU according to top and I had to 'kill -9 PID#' it. The 
>> last line was 'I: protocol-native.c: connection died.'
>> After that I did 'strace pulseaudio'. The output is here: 
>> http://pastebin.com/m72c9df3c
>>     
>
> The CPU limit stuff is just a protection to not block your machine
> indefinitely. It is reaction to your problem, not reason. Turning off
> the CPU limiter is never a good idea.
>
>   
>> I use Debian Testing AMD64 and a Creative X-Fi card. There is Pulseaudio 
>> 0.9.10 and Kernel 2.6.25 and I listen using Totem Gstreamer Mozilla plugin.
>> My ~/.pulse/default.pa is here: http://pastebin.com/m721a74f3
>> ~/.asoundrc is: http://pastebin.com/m3b6af4f7
>>     
>
> Is ALSA's "multi" plugin in the pipeline if you do this? (you can find
> that out with aplay -v on the same device that PA opens).
>
> Lennart
>
>   
I'm not sure about the 'multi' plug-in so I added the output of playing 
a file below.
However I forgot to add that the VLC plug-in didn't cause PA to close. I 
use Gstreamer again now and since I upgraded Debian recently it has 
rarely happened even when using Aptitude. I'm clueless but I use 
cpufrequtils and those were upgraded. It certainly occurs a lot less 
than before. I added the list of packages upgraded too.

Best regards,
Sladan


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$ aplay -v SH_Shout\ 120_14.wav
Playing WAVE 'SH_Shout 120_14.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 
44100 Hz, Stereo
Plug PCM: Hardware PCM card 0 'Creative X-Fi [a000]' device 0 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
  stream       : PLAYBACK
  access       : RW_INTERLEAVED
  format       : S16_LE
  subformat    : STD
  channels     : 2
  rate         : 44100
  exact rate   : 44100 (44100/1)
  msbits       : 16
  buffer_size  : 22052
  period_size  : 5513
  period_time  : 125011
  tstamp_mode  : NONE
  period_step  : 1
  avail_min    : 5513
  start_threshold  : 22052
  stop_threshold   : 22052
  silence_threshold: 0
  silence_size : 0
  boundary     : 6207086186423386112
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