On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 10:27 +0100, Daniel Mack wrote: > 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? Have no other card available. PA volume control shows three output devices: the SB card, onboard sound, and some HDMI audio from the graphics card. As I understand, pa sends audio to all of these devices in parallel, doesn't it? Or is it possible to deactivate specific devices (other that to just mute them, which I tried with no improvement). > > > 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. Am not sure if that is necessary. I can reproduce the crash predictably: open several flashs in firefox and play music from rhythmbox; nirvana waits around the next corner. (I really experienced that Metallica crashes sooner than Santana... hmmm...) > > 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'. With "gstreamer-properties" UI I selected alsa, but where do I find the setting to be 'pasuspender'ed? Dirk > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
