'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 02/10/10 04:56 did gyre and gimble: > On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 08:44 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> 'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 30/09/10 02:50 did gyre and gimble: >>> On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 16:00 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: >>>> I suspect this is something to do with gconf. >>>> >>>> paprefs just sets some keys in gconf and it's up to module-gconf to >>>> actually read and process them. >>>> >>>> I believe (tho' have not checked) that module-gconf will not wait for >>>> gconf itself to be loaded before being considered "loaded" therefore, >>>> the set-default-sink combined in default.pa may not work, even if the >>>> gconf is available and working. >>>> >>>> Out of curiosity, does unloading/reloading just module-gconf make the >>>> simultaneous output appear? (as opposed to killing the whole of the PA >>>> daemon) It's not any more elegant a solution but it does narrow down >>>> where the problem lies :D >>> >>> Isn't it always this way... now that I want to test that it starts >>> working properly every single boot. The next time I see this issue I'll >>> be sure to try unloading/reloading module-gconf. Probably a race >>> condition of some sort. >> >> hehe, yup! 9 out of 10 problem are solved simply by saying "Hey, this is >> weird. Hey, come see this. Look, when I do this, that happe... oh wait >> it didn't" :p >> >> Col >> > > Ah, I just logged out and logged back in to get my scanner working and > the same thing happened again =). Unloading and reloading module-gconf > didn't seem to have an effect (maybe I wasn't doing it correctly?). In > any case, this is pactl list pastebins from before and after. Anything > else I need to check? > > http://pastebin.com/rM1gJfEr - pactl list before pulseaudio -k > http://pastebin.com/RYEZGVbr - pactl list after pulseaudio -k Hmm, not sure to be honest. I suspect it's still related to gconf in some capacity, but not 100% sure. We'd probably need debug output from the server to debug further. I know we have a gconf helper binary, but not sure when/how it's launched if I'm honest, but I suspect that poking about in the module-gconf code will maybe be the right direction. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
