Bug#574589: can confirm bug on debian squeeze, working patch attached

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Do, Feb 10, 2011 at 18:30:45 (CET), Alexander Wuerstlein wrote:

> I can confirm that this bug also affects pulseaudio on squeeze while not
> affecting lenny. When commands are read from stdin (e.g. "echo info |
> pacmd") pacmd handles the closing of stdin incorrectly and enters an
> endless poll()-loop. The referenced Ubuntu-bug only provides a
> workaround by replacing all occurences of "echo <something> | pacmd" by
> "pacmd <something>". This is insufficient since it still leaves the
> regression, thus breaking other previously working code.
>
> Also, I have ported and tested the upstream patch for the problem.
> Please see the attached patch which fixes the problem for me. It's, up
> to some small differences, the same as upstream commit
> 609a005b77b5dc691271f48351bd39e3eecb7dc9.

Test packages can be retrieved from here:
http://people.debian.org/~siretart/pulseaudio/

Feedback welcome to this bugreport.

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