[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#498745: audacious: Hangs on playback

[Roger Niva]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:22 PM, John Lindgren<john.lindgren at tds.net> wrote:
> Roger,
>
> First of all, sorry for the slow response. That backtrace was exactly
> what I wanted. :) It appears that the Pulse Audio plugin (thread 4) is
> hanging up, and output_pass_audio is waiting for it. Unfortunately, I'm
> not too familiar with Pulse Audio, and the backtrace for thread 4
> doesn't show much. Some more information that would be helpful -- it's
> hard when I can't see the problem on my own machine --:
>
>        1. Using the same configuration, stop Audacious again when it
>        hangs up and get another backtrace, so I can see whether it's
>        hanging up in the same place each time.

I did it several times and I got the same backtrace every time.

>        2. Try (a) updating to 2.0.1-1, (b) using ALSA or OSS instead of
>        Pulse Audio, and (c) disabling the cuesheet plugin while you're
>        at it. If any of those things gets rid of the hangups, that will
>        help narrow the problem down; if not, take yet another backtrace
>        when a hangup happens, and that will help narrow it down as
>        well.

I am currently running Audacious 2.0.1-1. It no longer hangs, but I do
get choppy playback on some mp3-files when using the ALSA output
plugin(still using Pulseaudio sound system), but if I use the
PulseAudio output plugin the sound is great. I have been running this
for a couple of weeks now and it has not hanged or showed any sign of
choppy playback. I have, however, upgraded to the 2.6.30(pristine from
kernel.org) kernel, although I am reasonably sure it worked just a
fine on my previous 2.6.29.x kernel, as well.


-- 
Vennlig hilsen,
Roger Niva