pulseaudio became unusable on F26 with the upgrade to vers 11.1.2 a few
weeks ago. It rapidly filled the log files with trash - and produced
no sound.
By using dnf downgrade "*pulseaudio*" I was able to restore sanity.
Yesterday I freshly installed Fedora 27 Live Xfce on an Acer laptop.
Today, /var/log/messages had grown to
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 14787172 Nov 22 15:47 messages
These 15 MB contain recurring lines like this:
Nov 22 11:22:18 datacer rtkit-daemon[4896]: Successfully made thread
16113 of pr
ocess 16113 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by 'dad' high priority at nice
level -11
.
Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer rtkit-daemon[4896]: Successfully made thread
16116 of process 16113 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by 'dad' RT at
priority 5.
Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer rtkit-daemon[4896]: Successfully made thread
16121 of process 16113 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by 'dad' RT at
priority 5.
Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer pulseaudio[16113]: [pulseaudio] socket-server.c:
bind(): Address already in use
Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer pulseaudio[16113]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed
to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""):
initialization failed.
Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer pulseaudio[16113]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module
load failed.
Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer pulseaudio[16113]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed
to initialize daemon.
Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer pulseaudio[16110]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon
startup failed.
which repeat every 5 seconds, and will rapidly destroy my system.
I've fought with this miserable pulseaudio creation for several
years, trying to get sound to work *properly*, but this is the
last straw.
Today I held an exorcism and have slain the damned thing:
dnf remove pulseaudio
which, amazingly, took out 34 packages.
Sound now works perfectly - just the way it should.
I cannot discern any important loss of function from the deleted 34
packages so far. aplay, vlc, xmms, mythfrontend and even
skypeforlinux all work fine with alsa.
pulseaudio should just go away!
--
David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC
dad@xxxxxxxx www.datix.us
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