[WORKAROUND] Audio error with GoPanda2 but not Chromium

mudri · 2014-07-30 11:35:11

I'm trying to start 64-bit GoPanda 2 after a successful installation. Here's what happens:

> ./GoPanda2 
[7198:0730/115331:INFO:gpu_info_collector_x11.cc(80)] NVCtrl extension does not exist.
[7198:0730/115331:ERROR:nss_util.cc(558)] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018
[7198:0730/115332:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for updates..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115332:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for binary update..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115332:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""checkNewerBin done!"", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115332:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking if there is a new version of GoPanda2..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking if translation updates are needed..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for translation updates..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for English translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for German translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Russian translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Croatian translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Spanish translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Ukranian translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Polish translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Serbian translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for French translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Mongolian translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Italian translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Chinese translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Vietnamese translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Catalan translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Turkish translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Romanian translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Japanese translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Czech translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for Korean translations..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Checking for updates done!"", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115333:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Loading GoPanda2..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115334:INFO:CONSOLE(32)] ""Starting GoPanda2..."", source: file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.InNncE/updater.js (32)
[7198:0730/115335:ERROR:audio_manager_base.cc(422)] Not implemented reached in virtual std::string media::AudioManagerBase::GetDefaultOutputDeviceID()
[7198:0730/115335:ERROR:audio_manager_base.cc(422)] Not implemented reached in virtual std::string media::AudioManagerBase::GetDefaultOutputDeviceID()
[7198:0730/115335:ERROR:audio_manager_base.cc(422)] Not implemented reached in virtual std::string media::AudioManagerBase::GetDefaultOutputDeviceID()
[7198:0730/115335:ERROR:breakpad_linux.cc(1225)] crash dump file written to /tmp/chromium-renderer-minidump-bda54bc54378ebcc.dmp

I see the update window first, then what seems to be the main window, which closes immediately.

All searches for that error bring up results relating to Chromium. However, none of the fixes worked for me (though I didn't really understand whether I did them right; they're rather vague). Also, my Chromium and Chrome work fine for both Flash and HTML5 audio. Any idea what's going wrong?

Last edited by mudri (2014-08-16 18:38:52)

MoonSwan · 2014-07-30 17:37:34

Another Go player! Yay! (See my avatar, it is a scene of a Go board and musician). Anyway, my first question will be how did you even install PandaNet? Did you compile it from source or create/use a PKGBUILD and Pacman? You'll get a bit further perhaps if you mention which version of Chromium and PandaNet you're using as well as your sound info (Alsa? Pulse audio? ... Other?) and how that is configured.

No one can help you unless you provide better documentation of the issue, your settings for the various parts that need to work together and any relevant logs (or a journal in systemd's case). I will admit I'm not very well-versed in this area but I'll give it a go to help you and hope someone more knowledge-able comes along too.

mudri · 2014-07-30 18:38:24

Thanks for the reply, but I'm still not sure what to add. I don't know anything about the sound system, other than that it works. It's always mute after booting (into GNOME 3.12). Does that sound familiar to anyone?

Just as a rough guide, here are some packages, and whether I've installed them:

> aura -Ss pulseaudio
extra/libcanberra-pulse 0.30-4 [installed]
    PulseAudio plugin for libcanberra
extra/paprefs 0.9.10-3
    A simple GTK-based configuration dialog for PulseAudio
extra/pavucontrol 2.0-2
    A GTK volume control for PulseAudio
extra/pulseaudio 5.0-1 [installed]
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 2-3 [installed]
    ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio
community/mate-media-pulseaudio 1.8.0-3 (mate-extra)
    MATE Media Tools (pulseaudio)
community/mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio 1.8.1-1 (mate)
    The MATE Settings daemon (pulseaudio)
community/ponymix 2-2
    CLI PulseAudio Volume Control
community/projectm-pulseaudio 2.1.0-8
    ProjectM support for Pulseaudio
> aura -Ss alsa
extra/alsa-firmware 1.0.28-1
    ALSA firmware package
extra/alsa-lib 1.0.28-1 [installed]
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
extra/alsa-oss 1.0.28-1
    OSS compatibility library
extra/alsa-plugins 1.0.28-1 [installed]
    Extra alsa plugins
extra/alsa-tools 1.0.28-1
    Advanced tools for certain sound cards
extra/alsa-utils 1.0.28-1 [installed]
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
extra/alsaplayer 0.99.81-6
    A heavily multi-threaded PCM player that tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit
extra/gnome-alsamixer 0.9.7-1
    Gnome ALSA mixer
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 2-3 [installed]
    ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio
community/balsa 2.5.1-1
    An e-mail client for GNOME
community/clalsadrv 2.0.0-1
    C++ wrapper around the ALSA API
community/lash 0.6.0~rc2-7
    A session management system for JACK and ALSA
community/patchage 1.0.0-2
    A modular patch bay for audio and MIDI systems based on Jack and Alsa
community/python-salsa20 0.3.0-2
    Bindings for the NaCL implementation of Salsa20 and XSalsa20 by D. J. Bernstein
community/python2-salsa20 0.3.0-2
    Bindings for the NaCL implementation of Salsa20 and XSalsa20 by D. J. Bernstein
community/zita-alsa-pcmi 0.2.0-1
    The successor of clalsadrv, provides easy access to ALSA PCM devices.
>

The thing that doesn't sound good is that I'm missing alsa-firmware. Should I install that?

I installed GoPanda2 as per these instructions. It comes as binary, and the installation script just does a few `cp`s. I've got the 64-bit one, running on a 64-bit system. The version is the most recent stable one: 2.3.0. Chromium is also stable: 36.0.1985.125 (283153). While I remember it, I also did the libudev.so.0 fix, running:

> cd /usr/lib
> sudo ln -s $PWD/libudev.so.1 libudev.so.0
> ls -l libudev*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 Jul  8 14:12 libudev.so -> libudev.so.1.5.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    21 Jul 29 22:40 libudev.so.0 -> /usr/lib/libudev.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 Jul  8 14:12 libudev.so.1 -> libudev.so.1.5.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60024 Jul  8 14:13 libudev.so.1.5.0*

or something equivalent.

MoonSwan · 2014-07-30 19:43:24

I understand why you simply downloaded and compiled this software but doing so makes it harder to administer later. Your best bet is to make a PKGBUILD of the instructions about how this software is to be compiled, installed and run. That said, I don't have the knowledge or skills to help with this part, sorry.

mudri wrote:

It's always mute after booting (into GNOME 3.12). Does that sound familiar to anyone?

As for the muting issue, this might help. Why do you have both Pulse Audio and Alsa installed? Aren't they mutually exclusive sound services? I know nothing about Pulse Audio either but I suspect you should only be using one or the other. Did you install both because of the issue you're facing now or did you just do that when you installed Arch to get sound to begin with?

mudri wrote:

I'm missing alsa-firmware. Should I install that?

The firmware you mentioned isn't relevant here. That's for using external hardware like a Midi keyboard jacked into the sound card on your computer.

mudri wrote:

I also did the libudev.so.0 fix

Uh....what fix is that and why did you use it? And where did you find that code snippet exactly?

Do you get sound using other apps, e.g. a music player or sound within a Internet browser such as Firefox on Youtube or the PC speaker's BEEP sound? Is your system up-to-date?

Purely out of curiosity: Why use PandaNet and not another go server, such as KGS?

mudri · 2014-07-30 20:25:50

MoonSwan wrote:

I understand why you simply downloaded and compiled this software but doing so makes it harder to administer later. Your best bet is to make a PKGBUILD of the instructions about how this software is to be compiled, installed and run. That said, I don't have the knowledge or skills to help with this part, sorry.

It's really nothing more than a decompress and a couple of `cp`s and `mkdir`s. The standard instructions are simple. I don't see why I need to make a package for it (though I could be missing some of the justification; I don't know much about PKGBUILDs).

MoonSwan wrote:

Why do you have both Pulse Audio and Alsa installed? Aren't they mutually exclusive sound services? I know nothing about Pulse Audio either but I suspect you should only be using one or the other. Did you install both because of the issue you're facing now or did you just do that when you installed Arch to get sound to begin with?

As I understand it from what I've read recently, Pulse is a layer above Alsa, and they work together. I didn't directly install either; I guess they came from GNOME or some other thing dependent upon them.

MoonSwan wrote:

Uh....what fix is that and why did you use it? And where did you find that code snippet exactly?

It's from the installation instructions for GoPanda2. I added the `$PWD/` because I assumed that its omission was a typo. It's usually necessary to add it to the first argument of `ln`, but I later found that it's not needed in this case. It makes no real difference, though.

MoonSwan wrote:

Do you get sound using other apps, e.g. a music player or sound within a Internet browser such as Firefox on Youtube or the PC speaker's BEEP sound? Is your system up-to-date?

Banshee works, Firefox works (HTML5 & Flash), the “blub” sound when I change the volume works, that slightly ugly sound from KGS when the other player passes works. No other programs have a problem with sound. I ran `aura -Syu` (essentially `pacman -Syu`) and `aura -Ayu` yesterday.

MoonSwan wrote:

Purely out of curiosity: Why use PandaNet and not another go server, such as KGS?

I already play on KGS; I just wanted to try a different server. I have a problem with KGS losing connection frequently, and that sometimes impacts my games. It makes me look like an escaper when it happens. Also, the GoPanda2 UI looks so nice, and KGS's is dog.

MoonSwan · 2014-07-30 22:10:16

Ya I don't like KGS's interface much either. You are aware, I hope, that there are almost 20 Go playing apps in the AUR and a few in the official repos too. You might want to check them out and see if they are to your liking.

As for the sound issues I'm at a loss. Your explanations and arguments are perfectly reasonable here so I'm not sure what else to ask...except, I just thought of this, is this a laptop or desktop or netbook? Does your system have 2 separate sound systems? For example, I have a laptop that I had to tell Alsa to choose one sound card over the other, in this case a regular sound card is the default instead of the HDMI output. Does that have anything to do with your situation perhaps?

Apart from what I've suggested I don't know that I can shine any more light on your dilemma. :\ I'm sorry but I don't know what else to look at.

mudri · 2014-07-30 23:00:00

I'm using a laptop. The sound settings give the options “Speakers - Built-in Audio” and “Analog Output - Bulit-in Audio”. Here are some more command outputs:

> aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
default
    Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VB Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VB Analog
    Front speakers
surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VB Analog
    2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VB Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VB Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VB Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VB Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VB Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
>

Thanks for your replies. You've played some weak moves which allowed me to secure my territory and build up moyo! ;-)

By the way, I've only found 4 of those go packages in AUR (cgoban3, ggoban, cgoban-h and xscreensaver-goban). “go” is a pretty useless search term, and “baduk” and “weiqi” yield nothing. As you can see, “goban” yields results. Before now, I didn't know that cgoban was available as a package. That makes things nicer than the javaws version. Thanks for making me search for that!

squirrel · 2014-08-16 05:21:55

I have the same problem as mudri...on reaching the last line of output with the "ERROR:breakpad_linux.cc" the program exits. No idea what is going on, but I thought I would mention another program in the AUR that can connect to IGS. The program is qgo2. I have the svn version installed from this AUR package. There is also a git version in the AUR that I think might be more up to date, but that package would not build for me due to a missing qt-related command.

Once installed, you can input your login information into Qgo2 and connect to IGS. I just played my first IGS game this way tonight after failing to get GoPanda2 to work. My problem with KGS is that I have a hard time finding reliable matches late evenings US pacific coast time when I often want to play.

Last edited by squirrel (2014-08-16 05:24:04)

mudri · 2014-08-16 12:35:20

Thanks, squirrel! That one works. I would still like to use gopanda2, but qgo2 seems sufficient.

As an aside, I've been on OGS recently, which looks promising. But I'll try IGS, too.

MoonSwan · 2014-08-21 23:06:43

I plan to put the information in this post onto the wiki soon-ish and I will post that link here

Here's a list of all the current (as of August 21, 2014) packages that I've found in the AUR. Hopefully this will satisfy many of Go-playing Archers in this community. This is my list of a (in my opinion) decent selection of go-clients (to connect to Internet Go servers), problem-solving and other go-related apps. I'm also going to see which (if any) of these apps does (or not) compile and do (or not) work properly. I may post the results of that on the wiki too if there are others interested in seeing the results of my informal app tests.

Here's what I have found so far:

cgoban3 - Kiseido Go and SGF client

cgoban-h - KGS client 'hacked' with some enhancements

ggoban - A gtk go game interface to play and edit game records

gogui - a gui for any Go Text Protocol software like GNU Go (orphan?) Last Updated: 2013-09-04 09:28)

monkeyjump-git - Minimalistic GUI for playing Go with GnuGo and other GTP applications

Mugo - SGF editor written by C++ and Qt

qgo2-git - Go client and full featured SGF editor; svn-snapshot of the next major version (orphan)

qgo2-svn - Go client and full featured SGF editor; svn-snapshot of the next major version

quarry-git - Quarry is a multi-purpose GUI for several board games, at present Go, Amazons and Othello.

quarry - A multi-purpose GUI for Go, Amazons, and Othello

uligo - uliGo is a program to practice solving go problems.