Bug#556948: gnome-volume-control-applet: Connection failed, reconnecting...

[Bob Tracy]

Package: gnome-media
Version: 2.28.1-1
Severity: normal

My .xsession-errors file is full of lines like the following:

** (gnome-volume-control-applet:19774): WARNING **: Connection failed, reconnecting...

If gnome-volume-control-applet is allowed to continue to run, say, overnight,
the session eventually hangs due to some kind of resource exhaustion.  At that
point, a system reboot is required to restore graphical console access, because
the keyboard and mouse are no longer seen even if the X11 session is killed
and/or restarted.  Killing the gnome-volume-control-applet process is a
workaround.

Other items of note:

(1) The speaker icon in the tray disappeared shortly after a gnome package
upgrade, probably due the connection failure noted above (although I didn't
notice or look for the error messages until a long-running session hung and
got my attention).  With a freshly-started gnome session, after killing the
non-functional gnome-volume-control-applet, I added an instance to the tray
and it seems to work ok, i.e., I can pull up the mixer and everything works
the way it is supposed to as far as I can tell.

(2) "/usr/share/gnome/autostart/gnome-volume-control-applet.desktop"
(presumably the instance that can't connect) has "TryExec=/usr/bin/pulseaudio".
The instance I added says it's using gstreamer.

(3) Give the above two items, this report may be related to #541320.  I have
not tried reconfiguring my gnome session per the procedure noted there.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: alpha

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-media depends on:
ii  gnome-media-common     2.28.1-1          GNOME media utilities - common fil
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa [gs 0.10.25-6         GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-esd [gst 0.10.16-5         GStreamer plugin for ESD
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.16-1         GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.25-6         GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.16-5         GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaud 0.10.16-5         GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.28.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6.1                2.10.1-7          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.8-2           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-gtk0       0.22-1            Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0           0.22-1            a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-4           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.11-1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.28.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.4-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.22.2-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-media0        2.28.1-1          runtime libraries for the GNOME me
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.25-6         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.25-3         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.18.3-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.26.0-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib 0.9.20-1          PulseAudio client libraries (glib 
ii  libpulse0              0.9.20-1          PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libunique-1.0-0        1.1.6-1           Library for writing single instanc
ii  libxml2                2.7.6.dfsg-1      GNOME XML library
ii  x11-utils              7.4+1             X11 utilities
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

gnome-media recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-media suggests:
ii  pulseaudio                    0.9.20-1   PulseAudio sound server

-- no debconf information