Hi, OK, just to close off this thread.... 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 28/02/11 20:26 did gyre and gimble: > Just cataloguing my issues so we don't forget.... > > 1. It seems that when running pulseaudio -k, that the daemon terminates > pretty brutally... I'm not yet sure if the daemon dies horribly or just > doesn't unload the modules properly. Due to this, the X11 properties on > the root window are left over (because they were inserted by > module-x11-publish). Due to this, the daemon will not autospawn or be > started properly. > > This indicates two separate problems: > a) The module shutdown process is not quite working right. Fixed in: http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git;a=commitdiff;h=1e381fbffc190fdede27d6f27a2d113daf3e791d > b) The code that detects whether the connection params (in the left > over x11 props) are meant to be local (which indicates a crash) so that > autospawn or manual startup will proceed successfully. Turns out there was no code to do this, so I wrote some in: http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git;a=commitdiff;h=7aa8a3fa8015d17240e5fc27bf44eb7d22e7e13a > 2. Startup is no longer atomic: > > With PA not running and autospawn disabled: > [colin at jimmy ~]$ start-pulseaudio-x11 > Connection failure: Connection refused > pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused > > PA does actually start but it's the pactl load-module's that cause this > connection refused error. This means that pulseaudio --start returns > before the daemon is ready for connections. This may also be something > that is affecting the stable-queue (as I have heard of some startup > races but never been able to reproduce). Fixed in: http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git;a=commitdiff;h=d47a33775b55877b9df42add3346779bba077299 and http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git;a=commitdiff;h=34ddc5b9c533ed83d53238fff0777663f9c50336 It was not a problem on stable-queue so any startup races that exist are probably still there... (I have no real proof they do exists... just hearsay and hunches) > Need to do some more testing :) (and fixing). All done :) 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/]
