[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse Jack module, dies sometimes on mpc toggle

[Ng Oon-Ee]

Hi all,

I'm using module-jack-sink and module-jack-source such that Pulse is 
running above my Jack server. It doesn't give problems about half the 
time, but sometimes the sound from my mpd server just dies. This is 
because the pulse daemon has crashed and died (as shown by different PID 
of pulseaudio before and after this happens). I've tried to run 
pulseaudio in a terminal instead of daemonized, and in that situation I 
can almost guaruntee a crash almost as soon as I start playing, though 
if I start pulse with pulseaudio --start it seems to be able to work for 
a much longer period of time.

In case it matters, my default.pa does NOT load module-hal-detect, 
module-alsa-sink/source, or module-jack-sink/source, but the other 
default modules are loaded. I have two scripts, pulse-nojack and 
pulse-withjack, which would check for a running Jack server and 
start/kill depending on the needs of the situation, as well as 
load/unload the modules as needed.

I'm quite at a lost on how to analyze the situation, since there seems 
to be a difference between running pulseaudio --start (which if I'm not 
wrong is the same as pulseaudio, except it checks for a running daemon, 
which I can confirm does NOT exist before running the command) and just 
running pulseaudio.