[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse Audio crashes

[Sean McNamara]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
> 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.

http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/DependenciesListDistroSpecific
Go down to the Fedora 9 deps and, as root, `yum install` each one.

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