Thanks, Harsha. > >> Hi, >> >> Can anyone help understand this behavior on my system? >> >> 1. I try playing a 50 min file using paplay and >> it works perfectly fine >> >> 2. I try playing the following script and it works >> perfectly fine >> for ((i=0; i<5; i++)); do echo $i; aplay >> /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav; sleep(1); done >> >> 3. I try playing the following script (without delay in-between >> each file playback) and it stops during 5th playback >> for ((i=0; i<5; i++)); do echo $i; aplay >> /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav; done > >Stops? In which way? The command just freezes? The command does not come out to the prompt. On pressing ctrl+C, it comes out and next paplay works. But again running in a script stops after 4th time. > >> Somehow, if I change in /etc/pulse/default.pa, add "timeout=0" to >module module-suspend-on-idle, the 3rd scenario also plays >> perfectly fine. >> >> Can anyone help explain what could be going wrong in 3rd scenario? >> And why setting timeout=0 solves the issue? Is setting timeout=0 >> the right solution? > >Could you run PA as "pulseaudio -vvvvvv" and provide me with the last >100 lines of output when this 'stopping' happens? > Here is the last 100 lines when I ran PA as above. I: sink-input.c: Freeing input 3 "/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" W: module-audiomanager.c: Get Msg(AM_APP_TERMINATE) I: client.c: Freed 4 "paplay" I: protocol-native.c: Connection died. I: client.c: Created 5 "Native client (UNIX socket client)" D: protocol-native.c: Protocol version: remote 15, local 15 I: protocol-native.c: Got credentials: uid=500 gid=500 success=1 D: protocol-native.c: SHM possible: yes D: protocol-native.c: Negotiated SHM: yes D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_card0device0.output becomes busy. W: resampler.c: Support for resampler 'src-linear' not compiled in, reverting to 'auto'. I: resampler.c: Using resampler 'speex-float-3' I: resampler.c: Using float32le as working format. I: resampler.c: Choosing speex quality setting 3. D: memblockq.c: memblockq requested: maxlength=33554432, tlength=0, base=2, prebuf=0, minreq=1 maxrewind=0 D: memblockq.c: memblockq sanitized: maxlength=33554432, tlength=33554432, base=2, prebuf=0, minreq=2 maxrewind=0 I: sink-input.c: Created input 4 "/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" on alsa_card0device0.output with sample spec s16le 1ch 48000Hz and channel map mono I: protocol-native.c: Requested tlength=250.00 ms, minreq=20.00 ms D: protocol-native.c: Traditional mode enabled, modifying sink usec only for compat with minreq. D: memblockq.c: memblockq requested: maxlength=4194304, tlength=24000, base=2, prebuf=22082, minreq=1920 maxrewind=0 D: memblockq.c: memblockq sanitized: maxlength=4194304, tlength=24000, base=2, prebuf=22082, minreq=1920 maxrewind=0 I: protocol-native.c: Final latency 349.95 ms = 210.00 ms + 2*20.00 ms + 99.95 ms W: module-audiomanager.c: name:paplay W: module-audiomanager.c: index:4 W: module-audiomanager.c: prio:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: mixable:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: device:(null) W: module-audiomanager.c: action:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: exceptions: W: module-audiomanager.c: stream inputs: W: module-audiomanager.c: name:paplay W: module-audiomanager.c: index:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: prio:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: mixable:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: device:(null) W: module-audiomanager.c: current device:(null) W: module-audiomanager.c: action:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: sink_input driver:protocol-native.c W: module-audiomanager.c: exceptions: W: module-audiomanager.c: stream ouputs: W: module-audiomanager.c: Get Msg(AM_APP_NEW) E: module-mrst-specific.c: mrst-device-migrate gets called E: module-mrst-specific.c: mrst_device_migrate: src:NULL, dst:alsa_card0device0.PCM E: module-mrst-specific.c: pauldebug: do_migration: src:NULL, dst:alsa_card0device0.PCM W: policy-actions.c: stream(paplay) move to device(alsa_card0device0.PCM) successed! E: policy-actions.c: stream paplay pre_dev (null) W: module-audiomanager.c: active streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: name:paplay, index:0, state:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: internal paused streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: user paused streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: Get Msg(AM_STREAM_INPUT_NEW) name:paplay D: protocol-native.c: Requesting rewind due to end of underrun. D: protocol-native.c: Underrun on '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav', 0 bytes in queue. D: alsa-sink.c: Requested to rewind 8816 bytes. D: alsa-sink.c: Limited to 7052 bytes. D: alsa-sink.c: before: 3526 D: alsa-sink.c: after: 3526 D: alsa-sink.c: Rewound 7052 bytes. D: sink.c: Processing rewind... D: source.c: Processing rewind... W: module-audiomanager.c: Get Msg(AM_STREAM_INPUT_TERMINATE) W: module-audiomanager.c: active streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: internal paused streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: user paused streams: D: core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event. W: module-audiomanager.c: active streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: internal paused streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: user paused streams: D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_card0device0.output becomes idle. D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_card0device0.output becomes idle. D: core.c: Hmm, no streams around, trying to vacuum. I: sink-input.c: Freeing input 4 "/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" W: module-audiomanager.c: Get Msg(AM_APP_TERMINATE) I: client.c: Freed 5 "paplay" I: protocol-native.c: Connection died. I: client.c: Created 6 "Native client (UNIX socket client)" D: protocol-native.c: Protocol version: remote 15, local 15 I: protocol-native.c: Got credentials: uid=500 gid=500 success=1 D: protocol-native.c: SHM possible: yes D: protocol-native.c: Negotiated SHM: yes D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_card0device0.output becomes busy. W: resampler.c: Support for resampler 'src-linear' not compiled in, reverting to 'auto'. I: resampler.c: Using resampler 'speex-float-3' I: resampler.c: Using float32le as working format. I: resampler.c: Choosing speex quality setting 3. D: memblockq.c: memblockq requested: maxlength=33554432, tlength=0, base=2, prebuf=0, minreq=1 maxrewind=0 D: memblockq.c: memblockq sanitized: maxlength=33554432, tlength=33554432, base=2, prebuf=0, minreq=2 maxrewind=0 I: sink-input.c: Created input 5 "/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" on alsa_card0device0.output with sample spec s16le 1ch 48000Hz and channel map mono I: protocol-native.c: Requested tlength=250.00 ms, minreq=20.00 ms D: protocol-native.c: Traditional mode enabled, modifying sink usec only for compat with minreq. D: memblockq.c: memblockq requested: maxlength=4194304, tlength=24000, base=2, prebuf=22082, minreq=1920 maxrewind=0 D: memblockq.c: memblockq sanitized: maxlength=4194304, tlength=24000, base=2, prebuf=22082, minreq=1920 maxrewind=0 I: protocol-native.c: Final latency 349.95 ms = 210.00 ms + 2*20.00 ms + 99.95 ms W: module-audiomanager.c: name:paplay W: module-audiomanager.c: index:5 W: module-audiomanager.c: prio:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: mixable:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: device:(null) W: module-audiomanager.c: action:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: exceptions: W: module-audiomanager.c: stream inputs: W: module-audiomanager.c: name:paplay W: module-audiomanager.c: index:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: prio:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: mixable:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: device:(null) W: module-audiomanager.c: current device:(null) W: module-audiomanager.c: action:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: sink_input driver:protocol-native.c W: module-audiomanager.c: exceptions: W: module-audiomanager.c: stream ouputs: W: module-audiomanager.c: Get Msg(AM_APP_NEW) E: module-mrst-specific.c: mrst-device-migrate gets called E: module-mrst-specific.c: mrst_device_migrate: src:NULL, dst:alsa_card0device0.PCM E: module-mrst-specific.c: pauldebug: do_migration: src:NULL, dst:alsa_card0device0.PCM W: policy-actions.c: stream(paplay) move to device(alsa_card0device0.PCM) successed! E: policy-actions.c: stream paplay pre_dev (null) W: module-audiomanager.c: active streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: name:paplay, index:0, state:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: internal paused streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: user paused streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: Get Msg(AM_STREAM_INPUT_NEW) name:paplay D: protocol-native.c: Requesting rewind due to end of underrun. D: protocol-native.c: Underrun on '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav', 0 bytes in queue. D: alsa-sink.c: Requested to rewind 8816 bytes. W: module-audiomanager.c: Get Msg(AM_STREAM_INPUT_TERMINATE) W: module-audiomanager.c: active streams: D: alsa-sink.c: Limited to 7052 bytes. W: module-audiomanager.c: internal paused streams: D: alsa-sink.c: before: 3526 W: module-audiomanager.c: user paused streams: D: alsa-sink.c: after: 3526 D: alsa-sink.c: Rewound 7052 bytes. D: sink.c: Processing rewind... D: source.c: Processing rewind... D: core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event. W: module-audiomanager.c: active streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: internal paused streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: user paused streams: D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_card0device0.output becomes idle. D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_card0device0.output becomes idle. D: core.c: Hmm, no streams around, trying to vacuum. I: sink-input.c: Freeing input 5 "/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" W: module-audiomanager.c: Get Msg(AM_APP_TERMINATE) I: client.c: Freed 6 "paplay" I: protocol-native.c: Connection died. I: client.c: Created 7 "Native client (UNIX socket client)" D: protocol-native.c: Protocol version: remote 15, local 15 I: protocol-native.c: Got credentials: uid=500 gid=500 success=1 D: protocol-native.c: SHM possible: yes D: protocol-native.c: Negotiated SHM: yes D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_card0device0.output becomes busy. W: resampler.c: Support for resampler 'src-linear' not compiled in, reverting to 'auto'. I: resampler.c: Using resampler 'speex-float-3' I: resampler.c: Using float32le as working format. I: resampler.c: Choosing speex quality setting 3. D: memblockq.c: memblockq requested: maxlength=33554432, tlength=0, base=2, prebuf=0, minreq=1 maxrewind=0 D: memblockq.c: memblockq sanitized: maxlength=33554432, tlength=33554432, base=2, prebuf=0, minreq=2 maxrewind=0 I: sink-input.c: Created input 6 "/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" on alsa_card0device0.output with sample spec s16le 1ch 48000Hz and channel map mono I: protocol-native.c: Requested tlength=250.00 ms, minreq=20.00 ms D: protocol-native.c: Traditional mode enabled, modifying sink usec only for compat with minreq. D: memblockq.c: memblockq requested: maxlength=4194304, tlength=24000, base=2, prebuf=22082, minreq=1920 maxrewind=0 D: memblockq.c: memblockq sanitized: maxlength=4194304, tlength=24000, base=2, prebuf=22082, minreq=1920 maxrewind=0 I: protocol-native.c: Final latency 349.95 ms = 210.00 ms + 2*20.00 ms + 99.95 ms W: module-audiomanager.c: name:paplay W: module-audiomanager.c: index:6 W: module-audiomanager.c: prio:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: mixable:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: device:(null) W: module-audiomanager.c: action:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: exceptions: W: module-audiomanager.c: stream inputs: W: module-audiomanager.c: name:paplay W: module-audiomanager.c: index:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: prio:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: mixable:1 W: module-audiomanager.c: device:(null) W: module-audiomanager.c: current device:(null) W: module-audiomanager.c: action:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: sink_input driver:protocol-native.c W: module-audiomanager.c: exceptions: W: module-audiomanager.c: stream ouputs: W: module-audiomanager.c: Get Msg(AM_APP_NEW) E: module-mrst-specific.c: mrst-device-migrate gets called E: module-mrst-specific.c: mrst_device_migrate: src:NULL, dst:alsa_card0device0.PCM E: module-mrst-specific.c: pauldebug: do_migration: src:NULL, dst:alsa_card0device0.PCM W: policy-actions.c: stream(paplay) move to device(alsa_card0device0.PCM) successed! E: policy-actions.c: stream paplay pre_dev (null) W: module-audiomanager.c: active streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: name:paplay, index:0, state:0 W: module-audiomanager.c: internal paused streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: user paused streams: W: module-audiomanager.c: Get Msg(AM_STREAM_INPUT_NEW) name:paplay D: protocol-native.c: Requesting rewind due to end of underrun >Lennart >
