Hey Steven thanks for the info. Do you have bitbucket access? Are you familiar with the new bugtracker? On Apr 5, 2013 8:52 PM, "Steven Boswell II" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! For the longest time, I've encountered a frequent hard hang (i.e. > SIGTERM won't end the process, only SIGKILL) in pykaraoke. Tonight I > traced it to pygame.mixer.music.play(). > > I managed to write a short Python script, and create a short MP3 (i.e. > 50k) that can reproduce it. They're attached to this e-mail. > I also figured out that it only happens on multiprocessor systems; if I > boot my computer with "maxcpus=1", or run it on a single-core machine, it > doesn't happen. > On rare occasions, it'll succeed on a multiprocessor system, and the > process will exit normally, but most of the time it'll hang hard. > > I'm running this on Fedora Core 17, but I've encountered this regularly > with previous versions of Fedora Core, too. > Currently, I'm running with the latest version of python and pygame > available from the FC17 yum repos, i.e. python-2.7.3-7.2.fc17.i686 and > pygame-1.9.1-11.fc17.i686 . > It happens with SDL_mixer built with smpeg as well as with libmad. I'm > using SDL_mixer-1.2.12-3.fc17 (also from the FC17 yum repo), built from > source with "--enable-music-mp3-mad-gpl" added to the %configure line in > the .spec file. > But given how long I've encountered this problem, I doubt the exact > software versions are that relevant. > > Please let me know if there's anything else I can provide to help track > down this problem. Hopefully the attached files are enough. > Thanks in advance! > > Steven Boswell > >
