[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse Audio crashes

[Scott Castaline]

Sean McNamara wrote:
> Try building the latest GIT pulseaudio. I had all of the same problems
> before, but they are fixed in GIT. I don't expect that F9 will push
> any version updates in the post-release cycle, but there may still be
> hope for F10.
> 
> You'll need http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/DependenciesListDistroSpecific
> and http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/DownloadPulseAudio#DevelopmentSources
> if you are inexperienced with building PA from source.
> 
> Sean
> 
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It seems that Pulse Audio intermittently crashes only when I'm using
>> Rhythmbox. Sometimes it'll stop almost right away (during play of 1st track
>> selected) and other times it'll play for hours and then suddenly crash. If I
>> don't close Rhythmbox right away the system gets very sluggish and almost
>> non-responsive. I have sent an email to the Rhythmbox list without any
>> reaction, so I'm assuming that no one else seems to have this problem. I am
>> running Fedora 9 uname -r = 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64. I have created an icon
>> on my desktop that just does a pulsaudio & to restart it, but it'll only
>> last a few seconds. I usually log out then force a restart of X
>> (ctrl-alt-bkspce), log back in and then it's fine for a while. There doesn't
>> seem to be anything in particular that I do. I normally will start Rhythmbox
>> and put it on my 2nd desktop maxmisized, and FF3.x with 2 tabs open along
>> with T'Bird-2.x (Lightning extension and iGoogle Provider plugin running),
>> GnuCash, a Calc spreadsheet file open, and calculator, usually all
>> minimisized if I'm not doing anything with them, on my 1st desktop.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> pulseaudio-discuss mailing list
>> pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de
>> https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> pulseaudio-discuss mailing list
> pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de
> https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
> 
Sorry it took so long to reply, but an update for F 9 trashed my GRUB 
setup. I have downloaded the required packages and unpacked them. What 
options do I need to use for Fedora 9, when I run configure, and any 
additional options for compile and install?