[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse Audio crashes

[Scott Castaline]

Sean McNamara wrote:
> 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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Anything special for the build of the dependencies, or should I just use 
the same for them? I have already dnlded and unpacked the source tar 
balls of the mandatory dependencies. Haven't done anything with optional 
pkgs.