[pulseaudio-discuss] jackdbus module, pulse fails to conform on device reservation API

[Ian Malone]

On 20 November 2012 17:37, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 12:45 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 21:45 +0100, Brendan Jones wrote:
>> > I'm seeing this in virtual box under KDE (also Fedora 18 / pulseaudio 2.1).
>> >
>> > On my real desktop, if I configure qjackctl to autostart on logon and in
>> > turn autostart jack I do not see the problem.
>> >
>> > If I stop jack and resume normal desktop use and restart jack after a
>> > time, the issue does occur.
>> >
>> > pulseaudio --kill; pulseaudio --start always fixes the issue.
>> >
>> > Is there something I can look out for in the logs, or something I can
>> > try via pacmd while it is happening to aid in debugging this issue?
>> >
>> > We are very close to the release date of the Fedora Audio spin and
>> > really want to have jack and pulse coexist directly from the install
>> > media but this issue is holding us back.
>> >
>> > Let me know if there is anyway I can help
>>
>> I can reproduce some weird behavior which I've been investigating, but
>> right now there's a bluetooth bug that is at a higher priority. I think
>> I can finish that today, though, so I can continue with this device
>> reservation stuff right after that.
>>
>> I don't think I need more debug information right now - let's see if
>> fixing the bugs that I'm seeing also fixes your issues.
>
> I've attached a patch that fixes the bug that I've been investigating.
> The fix ended up being very simple, but I think it's quite unlikely that
> it will fix your problem. If you could try the patch, that would be
> great. In the mean time, I'll try to reproduce the bug that you're
> seeing.
>

Thanks, I'll give it a go. I think handling the already_owner case in
reserve.c as well might be worthwhile since there may be other ways to
get to that state.

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