Bug#675870: pulseaudio: Pulseaudio does not allow successfully connected applications to start audio playback.

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 03:24:38PM -0400, Brian Neltner wrote:
> I am using Mint 13 Debian Edition, but this package is from the debian
> repository so I am submitting it here instead of through Mint.
> 
> Up until two days ago, I had some major bugs in alsa (HDA Intel crashing,
> crashing on use if iec958, and weird static noise), but none of these
> appear to be the problem here.

This sound scary, even though your pulse package may originall come from Debian
it needs a stable alsa environment to work in.

> When I connect any audio application to play through pulseaudio (tried with
> clementine, mplayer, play) it appears to connect but audio playback is
> frozen.  If it were jackd I would say that transport was not starting
> properly.  This is a new bug as of my most recent system reboot.
> 
> When I pipe sound directly to the ALSA driver underneath, it works fine, so I
> believe the bug is isolated to pulseaudio.
> 
> I have attached a log file produced with pulseaudio -v which shows the three
> applications in turn attaching, changing sample rates, and then...
> nothing. No idea how to debug further.

Would be great if you have the time to try a pure debian system instead of
Mint. Otherwise pulseaudio -vvvv might give some extra hints.

  Sjoerd
-- 
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