[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#491270: pulseaudio: PulseAudio freezes the boot process in some situations

[Gabriel Kerneis]

reopen 491270
thank you

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 01:22:51PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote:
> I’m going to close this now, but if you find something that causes
> pulseaudio to block on start-up, please let me know.

I found the bug thanks to strace: it loops for ever with

open("/dev/urandom",O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

I guess it comes from src/pulsecore/random.c, line 64:

/* $Id: random.c 1971 2007-10-28 19:13:50Z lennart $ */

[snip - device = "/dev/urandom"]

while (*device) {
    ret = 0;

    if ((fd = open(*device, O_RDONLY)) >= 0) {

        if ((r = pa_loop_read(fd, ret_data, length, NULL)) < 0 || (size_t) r != length)
            ret = -1;

        pa_close(fd);
    } else
        ret = -1;

    if (ret == 0)
        break;
}

It can't open /dev/urandom (because of wrong file permission) and thus never
gets out of the while loop. I think it would be safer to exit (with a failure
code) when /dev/urandom is not available.

Kind regards,
-- 
Gabriel Kerneis