On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 21:25 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > I'm running a buildbot that runs all the wine tests several times an hour. > All was well until I upgraded from ubuntu 10.04 to 11.10... then > I started to see occasional errors like > ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:746:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create > stream: Connection terminated > or > ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: > Connection terminated > > This blows my buildbot out of the water; nobody likes to be told that their > patch to add a comment to notepad.c has broken wine's audio support. > > I've filed bugs for this at winehq.org and ubuntu, > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28653 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874770 > but nobody has come up with any suggestions yet. > > I downloaded the pulseaudio sources and built src/test/connect-stress.c, > and am running it in a loop, but since it outputs "Connection terminated" > in normal operation, it's kind of hard to tell whether it's detecting > the problem or not :-) > > This is the main source of spurious failures in my buildbot. > Any ideas what could be causing the increased error rate, or > how I might go about debugging it? > > FWIW, this is on an i7. A couple of things to look at: 1. Is there anything suspicious in your PA server logs? You can get verbose output by killing pulseaudio and running it manually with -vvvv 2. Also useful is running the test with PULSE_LOG=4 to get debug output on the client side. Cheers, Arun
