[pulseaudio-discuss] Need assistance debugging symptom of pacmd spinning during suspend-to-ram attempt

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 15.01.10 23:02, Daniel Chen (seven.steps at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> > Well pacmd isn't really a regular PA client.... it connects via a
> > different IPC mechanism. It would be better to use pactl here I believe.
> 
> Right, it would be preferable to use pactl (which would need patching).
> 
> > Regardless I'm not too sure what is happening here that would be
> > different to before. Perhaps the fix for #771 (not accessing the mixer
> > when not the active user) is at fault here.
> 
> It turned out to be a brown paper bag bug, using pacmd foo instead of
> echo foo|pacmd.

Hmpf. Both commands should be equivalent actually. If you can make one
hang with 100% CPU then this is certainly a bug we need to fix. Can
you tell me how to reproduce this without having to install Ubuntu and
suspend it?

Lennart

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