On 11/18/2011 07:23 PM, dirkydirk wrote: > You are right, I don't know for sure if it's a PA problem at all, but I > have to start looking somewhere ;) > > With the same result, a complete system lockup, I have tried kernels > 3.1.0 and 2.6.37, rhythmbox and banshee (both use gstreamer), > flashplayer 10 and 11, firefox 8. Oopses are none in the logs. Did you try with a different sound card? > What kind of stress tests do you have in mind? I was thinking about heavy IO load in general, high CPU usage, all the like. But your problem seems to be audio related. > Before the update to gnome 3 I had an alsa-only environment, and this > lockup did not occur. Apart from updated libraries, PA is the only new > component in the system concerning audio, this is why I was looking here > first. Because gnome 3 depends on PA, de-installing it to have an > alsa-only environment again is not an option. > > I have attached the output of "pulseaudio -vvvvv". After the last line, > the crash happened. But on a previous run, there was a different last > line... > > Is it possible to tell gstreamer to not use pa but only alsa? Sure. Just use the 'alsasink' component, and temporarily disable pulseaudio by prefixing the command with 'pasuspender'. Daniel > On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 17:57 +0100, Daniel Mack wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:35 PM, dirkydirk <dirkydirk at gmx.net> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> recently I have updated my debian sid box to the latest gnome 3, which >>> installed also PulseAudio. Pleasantly, sound worked out of the box, even >>> flash, and my sound card SB XFi-Extreme Audio is detected and used (had >>> to use onboard sound for Linux prior to that). >>> >>> But alas, a big problem occurs: every time I play music via a gstreamer >>> app (rhythmbox) and play a flash in firefox, after a minute or so the >>> whole system freezes. I mean, the whole system: no mouse, no keyboard, >>> even ssh from a different computer does not work. And sound loops >>> endlessly. >> >> This is very unlikely a PulseAudio problem. Which kernel are you >> using? Do you see any Oopses in the logs after rebooting? Did you >> stress-test your system under different circumstances? I would also >> suggest you to test audio without PulseAudio, just ALSA natively, just >> to rule out some factors. >> >> >> Daniel >> _______________________________________________ >> pulseaudio-discuss mailing list >> pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
