On Thu, 11.12.08 22:48, Brian J. Murrell (brian at interlinx.bc.ca) wrote: > I've noticed a number of times on my Ubuntu Intrepid machine that Pidgin > seems to get it's pulseaudio connection hung up. Normally I only see a > listing in the Volume Control applet for pidgin for the brief time it > takes to send whatever short sound alert it wants to send. > > Every now and then though I will see an entry in it for Pidgin that > doesn't go away, yet there is no currently playing sound and no more > sounds will come through from pidgin until I restart it, to release the > hung up stream. > > Anyone seen this or know why it happens, or if there is a less intrusive > way than restarting pidgin, to have it's stream reset? Terminate Stream > will make it go away, but pulseaudio will still not receive (or play) > any more sounds from pidgin until it's restarted. I am note sure how pidgin plays event sounds these days. If they use GStreamer they might simply keep pre-rolled pipelines around, which will cause a stream to be created and kept around in PA. Pidgin should be fixed to simply use libcanberra and not use anything else. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
