[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#459915: rhythmbox: hangs in infinite loop when pulseaudio stream is terminated

[Sjoerd Simons]

reassign 459915 gst-pulse
thanks

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:30:49PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> reassign 459915 pulseaudio
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 01:44 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Package: rhythmbox
> > Version: 0.11.2-1+b1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > When you terminate the pulseaudio stream rhythmbox is playing through
> > (by whichever means you chose, pulseaudio crashing or maybe just
> > selecting 'terminate stream' from the pulseaudio volume control app)
> > rhythmbox fails to recover and hangs in an infinite poll() loop.
> 
> Hi.
> 
> According to upstream, this bug belongs to pulseaudio and not rhythmbox.
> I will reassign the bug report.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503126
> 
> PulseAudio maintainers, I'm guessing this can be merged with bug 412376.

the gstreamer0.10 pulseaudio plugin does deadlock if you kill the pulseaudio
server. Why this uses 100% cpu in rhythmbox i'm unsure.. Maybe it has a busy
loop waiting for a state change, but anyway, first the gst-pulse bug needs to
be fixed....

  Sjoerd
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