Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 24.07.08 19:17, Sladan (sladivadi at aon.at) wrote: > > >> Hi! >> >> I have a problem because Pulseaudio very often stops when using >> Aptitude. This also happens sometimes while just browsing the web. >> I always listen to an internet readio mms stream and suddenly the music >> stops. I then have to restart Pulseaudio which I can use until the next >> shutdown of it. >> People in the IRC helped me to post the output here: >> http://pastebin.com/m286d0691 >> Then I also tried with '--no-cpu-limit' option. This caused Pulseaudio >> to use 99%-100% CPU according to top and I had to 'kill -9 PID#' it. The >> last line was 'I: protocol-native.c: connection died.' >> After that I did 'strace pulseaudio'. The output is here: >> http://pastebin.com/m72c9df3c >> > > The CPU limit stuff is just a protection to not block your machine > indefinitely. It is reaction to your problem, not reason. Turning off > the CPU limiter is never a good idea. > > >> I use Debian Testing AMD64 and a Creative X-Fi card. There is Pulseaudio >> 0.9.10 and Kernel 2.6.25 and I listen using Totem Gstreamer Mozilla plugin. >> My ~/.pulse/default.pa is here: http://pastebin.com/m721a74f3 >> ~/.asoundrc is: http://pastebin.com/m3b6af4f7 >> > > Is ALSA's "multi" plugin in the pipeline if you do this? (you can find > that out with aplay -v on the same device that PA opens). > > Lennart > > I'm not sure about the 'multi' plug-in so I added the output of playing a file below. However I forgot to add that the VLC plug-in didn't cause PA to close. I use Gstreamer again now and since I upgraded Debian recently it has rarely happened even when using Aptitude. I'm clueless but I use cpufrequtils and those were upgraded. It certainly occurs a lot less than before. I added the list of packages upgraded too. Best regards, Sladan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ aplay -v SH_Shout\ 120_14.wav Playing WAVE 'SH_Shout 120_14.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo Plug PCM: Hardware PCM card 0 'Creative X-Fi [a000]' device 0 subdevice 0 Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : RW_INTERLEAVED format : S16_LE subformat : STD channels : 2 rate : 44100 exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) msbits : 16 buffer_size : 22052 period_size : 5513 period_time : 125011 tstamp_mode : NONE period_step : 1 avail_min : 5513 start_threshold : 22052 stop_threshold : 22052 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 6207086186423386112 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ =============================================================================== [UPGRADE] busybox 1:1.9.2-3 -> 1:1.10.2-1 [UPGRADE] evince 2.22.2-1 -> 2.22.2-2 [UPGRADE] file 4.24-4 -> 4.25-1 [UPGRADE] gnome-applets 2.22.3-1 -> 2.22.3-2 [UPGRADE] gnome-applets-data 2.22.3-1 -> 2.22.3-2 [UPGRADE] gnome-media 2.22.0-2 -> 2.22.0-3 [UPGRADE] gnome-media-common 2.22.0-2 -> 2.22.0-3 [UPGRADE] libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.26-1 -> 2:1.02.27-3 [UPGRADE] libgnome-media0 2.22.0-2 -> 2.22.0-3 [UPGRADE] libgtk2-perl 1:1.181-1+b1 -> 1:1.190-1 [UPGRADE] libmagic1 4.24-4 -> 4.25-1 [UPGRADE] libperl5.10 5.10.0-11 -> 5.10.0-11.1 [UPGRADE] libwavpack1 4.50.0-1 -> 4.50.1-1 [UPGRADE] perl 5.10.0-11 -> 5.10.0-11.1 [UPGRADE] perl-base 5.10.0-11 -> 5.10.0-11.1 [UPGRADE] perl-doc 5.10.0-11 -> 5.10.0-11.1 [UPGRADE] perl-modules 5.10.0-11 -> 5.10.0-11.1 [UPGRADE] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.2-1 -> 2:1.4.2-2 [UPGRADE] xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:1.2.0-1 -> 1:2.0.2-1 [UPGRADE] libsepol1 2.0.25-1 -> 2.0.30-2 [UPGRADE] cpufrequtils 002-7.2 -> 004-2 [UPGRADE] ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-2.1 -> 8.62.dfsg.1-3 [UPGRADE] ghostscript-x 8.62.dfsg.1-2.1 -> 8.62.dfsg.1-3 [UPGRADE] gs-esp 8.62.dfsg.1-2.1 -> 8.62.dfsg.1-3 [UPGRADE] gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre43-2 -> 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-3 [UPGRADE] java-wrappers 0.1.5 -> 0.1.6 [UPGRADE] libcpufreq0 002-7.2 -> 004-2 [UPGRADE] libgs8 8.62.dfsg.1-2.1 -> 8.62.dfsg.1-3 [UPGRADE] liblcms1 1.16-10 -> 1.17.dfsg-1 [UPGRADE] libpam-modules 0.99.7.1-6+b1 -> 0.99.7.1-7 [UPGRADE] libpam-runtime 0.99.7.1-6 -> 0.99.7.1-7 [UPGRADE] libpam0g 0.99.7.1-6+b1 -> 0.99.7.1-7 [UPGRADE] ssl-cert 1.0.21 -> 1.0.22 [UPGRADE] system-tools-backends 2.6.0-1 -> 2.6.0-2 ===============================================================================
