On 20140219_115052, Redalert Commander wrote: > Hi again, > > The bad news is that no one answered my e-mail, the good news is that > I managed to solve this myself. > More below. > > 2014-02-17 23:53 GMT+01:00 Steven Post <redalert.comman...@gmail.com>: > > I have a script that starts and kills pacat (pulseaudio cat) in order to > > get my USB turntable to work. > > It is a rather simple script, reproduced below for reference. > > I want to run this script at boot, but whatever I try, it doesn't seem > > to work. When started at boot (using an init script, or rc.local) the > > log it produces is always "pa_stream_drain(): Bad state". > > When running the script manually it works perfectly. > > The script is invoked with this command: > > su username -l -c /path/to/vinyl.sh > > > This is now fixed by adding the following cron job (crontab -e) > @reboot sleep 10; /path/to/vinyl.sh > > I think the issue was that pacat was started too soon (before > pulseaudio), and thus the sleep makes sure that the system is fully > operational. > If you do this yourself, you may find that 10 seconds is not enough, > since this was a pretty minimal system with a SSD. > > A better approach would be to check 'ps' for the pulseaudio existence > in a loop with a sleep 1, > thus minimizing the time between full boot and starting pacat, while > still being sure it doesn't launch to soon (even on slow systems). > I'll have a go at that tomorrow. > > Best regards, > Steven
This problem might be a good use-case for the benefits of systemd ;-) But caution, I don't really understand systemd very well yet. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140219202718.gb19...@big.lan.gnu
