On Wednesday 18 December 2019, deloptes wrote: > E. Liddell wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 02:02:33 -0500 > > "BorgLabs - Kate Draven" > > > > <borglabs4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> A recent update seems to be causing amarok to crash when I attempt to > >> play a song. I get the usual signal 11 stuff of the gui. From the > >> commadline I get > >> > >> [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'amarokapp' crashing... > >> Invalid write to eventfd: Bad file descriptor > >> Code should not be reached at pulsecore/fdsem.c:199, function > >> pa_fdsem_post(). Aborting. > >> [kcrash] Unable to start Dr. Konqi > >> > >> Any idea as to what might be causing this? It's happening on all pclos > >> boxes. > > > > Well, the error message is bubbling up from pulseaudio, so either amaroK > > is > > passing it the wrong thing, or pulse has a bug. So, the first question > > is, do you > > actually need any functionality pulseaudio provides and alsa doesn't? If > > not, I would kill it—it's just one more thing that can go wrong on your > > system. > > look in the message > Invalid write to eventfd: Bad file descriptor - could be even something > outside PA. > And yes there is a lot that PA provides and ALSO does not. > No, it does not work wrong - especially the 12.2-4+deb10u1 is very good. > > > You might still want to file a bug against amaroK, though. If you do, it > > would be a good idea to include the exact version of pulseaudio that's > > causing the problem, and check with your distro to see if they're using > > any patches that might affect fdsem.c > > Most important is the way to reproduce. > I do not use amarok personally - my father does all the time - with PA. > Never complained so far. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- I think it's an amarok problem because it's the only program affected. I have amarok's engine as alsa. When I turn off pulseaudio amarok doesn't work regardless of the engine I choose. I installed Clementine and it works fine. Something happened to somewhere that only affects amarok. It may be a pclos exclusive problem. At this point, I'm lost. Kate --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
