[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse Audio crashes

[Sean McNamara]

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
> 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
>>>
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> 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?

Yes! I usually use:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var &&
make -j2 && make -j install

Be sure to grab the packages from the dependencies list page first...

Sean


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