[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#601120: audacious: Hangs after a random amount of time playing music

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:26:32AM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:26:52 +0100 Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> > Package: audacious
> > Version: 2.3-2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > After upgrading from lenny to squeeze I've found that audacious
> > hangs anywhere between 10 seconds and 5 minutes after I start playing
> > a playlist.
> > 
> > When hung strace reports a tight loop of:
> > 
> > sched_yield()                           = 0
> > 
> > I haven't been able to find any common factors which would help explain
> > the hang, sorry. If you have any more suggestions for things to try to
> > debug, let me know.
> 
> As we are still waiting the release of Jessie:
> 
> We have a big improvement in libasound and alsa-utils. The drivers
> from the actual kernels should be tested as well, but anyway:
> 
> Ist this bug still valid for you?

I don't seem to have this problem with audacious on jessie.

Cheers,
Dominic.