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Cz-David

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Registered: 2012-05-25

Posts: 33

Pulseaudio random crashes after a three week update

Since yesterdays (three weeks delayed) update I have faced multiple issues, the most buggy update I think I have had on arch ever.

Managed to fix seven of them, but pulseaudio keeps crashing and behaving weirdly. Most of the times, it just stops without any errors at all, but once or twice I got something like this:

david@dntb:~$ pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] bluetooth-util.c: org.bluez.Manager.GetProperties() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
E: [alsa-sink-ALC662 rev1 Analog] alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!
E: [alsa-sink-ALC662 rev1 Analog] alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
E: [alsa-sink-ALC662 rev1 Analog] alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.

Sometimes when I launch pulse, I get sound from only one application, like in the bad olden days... Sometimes it works like nothing has happened. Then I launch flash for example and get audio only from flash or only from everything else than flash. Strange.

I am gonna do some testing with verbosity increased.

Last edited by Cz-David (2013-10-12 12:46:10)

Cz-David

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Registered: 2012-05-25

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Re: Pulseaudio random crashes after a three week update

First crash:

http://pastebin.com/sUQriFYL

Second:

http://pastebin.com/GbgcVzSn

Last edited by Cz-David (2013-10-12 13:54:13)

Cz-David

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Registered: 2012-05-25

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Re: Pulseaudio random crashes after a three week update

One of the reproducible causes seems to be pausing audio playback from the Guayadeque player.

xpander

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Registered: 2013-01-23

Posts: 56

Re: Pulseaudio random crashes after a three week update

do you have fluidsynth installed by any chance? thatone gave me problems
i had to pacman -Rdd fluidsynth

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Cz-David

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Registered: 2012-05-25

Posts: 33

Re: Pulseaudio random crashes after a three week update

Yes I have, but I do use it. Or at least tuxguitar.  But pulse haven't crashed in a while now, it must have been a transient bug or something.

suluke

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Registered: 2013-08-03

Posts: 3

Re: Pulseaudio random crashes after a three week update

I'm having the exact same issues with pulse and it's driving me nuts. Has there been any news on this topic? Pulse just crashes and I can't figure out why. I, too, get the bluez and the snd_hda_intel messages when I look into the logs. But neither of them to be the definite cause. Most of the times the error occurs when I open pavu control, maybe also while playing flash, but not only. Pulse will also not respawn automatically after 5 seconds, although it says it will in pavucontrol.

Please help

[edit] just looked for fluidsynth, but the package is not found. I used

pacman -Qi fluidsynth

Last edited by suluke (2013-11-09 13:15:19)

Roken

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Registered: 2012-01-16

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Re: Pulseaudio random crashes after a three week update

I've been getting random pulse crashes for months, usually either with wine or vlc. After trying every solution out there, I just learned to live with it.

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thens

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Registered: 2013-10-29

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Re: Pulseaudio random crashes after a three week update

I've been getting "random" pulse crashes for days now as well, it usually happens when I open up pavucontrol.
pavucontrol states that it has lost the connection and the PA will either restart itself or one has to restart it manually (via start-pulseaudio-x11).

Log via journalctl:
Nov 18 23:55:26 alpha pulseaudio[9147]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Nov 18 23:55:28 alpha pulseaudio[9147]: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
Nov 18 23:55:28 alpha pulseaudio[9147]: [pulseaudio] bluez4-util.c: org.bluez.Manager.GetProperties() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory.