[pulseaudio-discuss] System freeze

[dirkydirk]

You are right, I don't know for sure if it's a PA problem at all, but I
have to start looking somewhere ;)

With the same result, a complete system lockup, I have tried kernels
3.1.0 and 2.6.37, rhythmbox and banshee (both use gstreamer),
flashplayer 10 and 11, firefox 8. Oopses are none in the logs.

What kind of stress tests do you have in mind?

Before the update to gnome 3 I had an alsa-only environment, and this
lockup did not occur. Apart from updated libraries, PA is the only new
component in the system concerning audio, this is why I was looking here
first. Because gnome 3 depends on PA, de-installing it to have an
alsa-only environment again is not an option.

I have attached the output of "pulseaudio -vvvvv". After the last line,
the crash happened. But on a previous run, there was a different last
line...

Is it possible to tell gstreamer to not use pa but only alsa? 

Dirk



On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 17:57 +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:35 PM, dirkydirk <dirkydirk at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > recently I have updated my debian sid box to the latest gnome 3, which
> > installed also PulseAudio. Pleasantly, sound worked out of the box, even
> > flash, and my sound card SB XFi-Extreme Audio is detected and used (had
> > to use onboard sound for Linux prior to that).
> >
> > But alas, a big problem occurs: every time I play music via a gstreamer
> > app (rhythmbox) and play a flash in firefox, after a minute or so the
> > whole system freezes. I mean, the whole system: no mouse, no keyboard,
> > even ssh from a different computer does not work. And sound loops
> > endlessly.
> 
> This is very unlikely a PulseAudio problem. Which kernel are you
> using? Do you see any Oopses in the logs after rebooting? Did you
> stress-test your system under different circumstances? I would also
> suggest you to test audio without PulseAudio, just ALSA natively, just
> to rule out some factors.
> 
> 
> Daniel
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