Bug#556948: gnome-volume-control-applet: Connection failed, reconnecting...

Paul Menzel pm.debian at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 3 08:44:23 UTC 2010


Am Mittwoch, den 18.11.2009, 07:52 -0600 schrieb Bob Tracy:
> My .xsession-errors file is full of lines like the following:
> 
> ** (gnome-volume-control-applet:19774): WARNING **: Connection failed, reconnecting...

As far as I know, that normally means that no PulseAudio server is
running.

> If gnome-volume-control-applet is allowed to continue to run, say, overnight,
> the session eventually hangs due to some kind of resource exhaustion.  At that
> point, a system reboot is required to restore graphical console access, because
> the keyboard and mouse are no longer seen even if the X11 session is killed
> and/or restarted.  Killing the gnome-volume-control-applet process is a
> workaround.

Can you still reproduce this on an updated system? (gnome-media is still
the same version but maybe there was a bug in other packages gnome-media
depends on.)

It should certainly not hang. If you can reproduce it, could you debug
it further using GDB or strace(?) to see where it hangs and report this
upstream [1].

> Other items of note:
> 
> (1) The speaker icon in the tray disappeared shortly after a gnome package
> upgrade, probably due the connection failure noted above (although I didn't
> notice or look for the error messages until a long-running session hung and
> got my attention).  With a freshly-started gnome session, after killing the
> non-functional gnome-volume-control-applet, I added an instance to the tray
> and it seems to work ok, i.e., I can pull up the mixer and everything works
> the way it is supposed to as far as I can tell.

Could you open gnome-volume-control-applet in both cases and report to
us if the controls look the same.

> (2) "/usr/share/gnome/autostart/gnome-volume-control-applet.desktop"
> (presumably the instance that can't connect) has "TryExec=/usr/bin/pulseaudio".
> The instance I added says it's using gstreamer.

Do you have pulseaudio installed which is recommended by gnome-media?

> (3) Give the above two items, this report may be related to #541320.  I have
> not tried reconfiguring my gnome session per the procedure noted there.

I do not think so. The problem described in the bug title suggests that
you do not have pulseaudio installed.

The resource exhaustion should be a different problem.

Could you please also report what options are selected in
`gstreamer-properties`.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=gnome-media
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