[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#508238: pulseaudio: audio sink is suspended incorrectly

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:04:38AM +0000, Anand Kumria wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 0.9.13-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> After playing audio via Rhythmbox for random amounts of time, it would lock
> up.
> 
> I have started running pulseaudio by invoking 'pulseaudio -v -v' and during
> one of the lock-ups I noticed:
> 
> I: protocol-native.c: Connection died.
> I: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci_8086_24c5_alsa_playback_0 idle for too long, suspending ...
> I: module-alsa-sink.c: Device suspended...
> 
> It seems that pulseaudio is suspended the output sink, and causing rhythmbox
> to hang.
> 
> This did not happen in the past.

Does this still happen with recent versions of pulseaudio and gstreamer.

Note that it's not application visible that the underlying sink suspends or
not, so i doubt that was what triggered your issue

  Sjoerd
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