On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:54 PM, David Ó Laigheanáin <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: pulseaudio > Version: 5.0-13 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > If playing a sound (may or may not be a prerequisite) when the Pulseaudio > daemon is killed and respawned, it will become unusable. Any sounds > thereafter experience an extreme latency and small snippets (< 1 second) are > looped over and over rapidly. Changing volume becomes difficult as I assume > the PA daemon is choked and is struggling to keep up with requests. > > My reproduction steps: > - Run Clementine (output via PulseAudio). > - Play song. > - Run 'pulseaudio --kill && pulseaudio --start' as user. > - Clementine will fail to play anything else and get stuck at around 0:00 or > 0:01, with a tiny snippet of the music being played over and over. > - Attempt to change volume. The 'volume change' sound in GNOME will loop over > and over rapidly and the volume bar and hotkeys will become unresponsive. > - Restart PA again. The problem doesn't go away. > - Reboot and the problem is fixed, until the next time. > > This shouldn't happen. Ideally, you should be able to restart PA as many > times as you want at whatever speed and never have it become unusable.
What happens if you restart clementine? I think the problem is with the client that doesn't handle a dying server. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
