[pulseaudio-discuss] Frequent trivially-reproducible client hangs with stable-queue PA

[Paul Menzel]

Am Montag, den 22.02.2010, 18:50 +0000 schrieb Nix:
> Ever since I started using PA 0.9.21 (and possibly before: it's been
> long enough that my memory has faded), lots of applications have started
> hanging hard when fast-forwarded/rewound. This includes MPD and every
> single video player I own capable of fullscreen playback. As you might
> imagine, having to stop PA playing back sound and forcing all my video
> and music players not to use PA renders it... less useful than it might
> be, and the constant need to pay attention to ALSA volume levels makes
> PA's otherwise admirable ALSA volume-level frotzing annoying as
> well. (I'd use the ALSA->PA plugin, but as reported earlier, this
> doesn't work either, stuttering like crazy and frequently locking up.
> It may be that the ALSA plugin lockup is a special case of this one.)
> 
> It seems unlikely to me that every one of these applications is buggy:
> the problem more probably lies in PA itself.
> 
> This is still reproducible with stable-queue HEAD.
> 
> In all cases they seem to get stuck waiting for PA to send something
> that it never sends (or, at least, all are stuck in poll()...)
> 
> Examples, with client backtraces, include:

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Is there anything in the log files [1]?


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Community#BugsPatchesTranslations
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