[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio crashes on ArchLinux

[Paul Ezvan]

Le Tuesday 23 September 2008 19:24:40 Lennart Poettering, vous avez écrit :
> On Tue, 23.09.08 08:30, Paul Ezvan (paul at ezvan.fr) wrote:
> > > > I have kernel 2.6.26. I recompiled it with Config_HZ=1000 instead of
> > > > 300, and pulseaudio crashes less often. With alsa-lib 1.0.18rc3
> > > > instead of 1.0.17 I saw a small improvement.
> > > > Crashes occur more often when the CPU is loaded, for exemple while
> > > > compiling. The CPU is also never idle because of Folding at Home working
> > > > in background, niced of course.
> > > > Also another people using ArchLinux is experimenting the same problem
> > > > on different hardware (AC97 codec).
> > > > Here is the log : http://pastebin.com/mbc32989
> > >
> > > This output shows crash, or am I blind? What kind of crash happens?
>
> Sorry, there was a "no" missing in this sentence, sorry for the confusion.
>
> > > Lennart
> >
> > I am sorry, it is not the correct log (??), here is the correct one :
> > http://pastebin.com/m539405bc
>
> Hmm, OK, so your PA terminated due to overloading your CPU.
>
> Unfortunately it is not easy to figure out what is going on. PA
> probably spins in some kind of busy loop. The question is which one
> that is. A good way to find out which one would be running a profiler
> on PA.
>
> Do you think you'd be able to do that? I can give a few hints but it's
> no fun unless you already know you way around with low-level debugging
> tools like gdb.
>
> Lennart

I can try but I have never used gdb.  It's a good opportunity to learn !

Paul