Bug#745143: pulseaudio: Getting serious pops and clicks in audio in Debian 7.4 64-bit.

[Scott Borisch]

Hi Felipe,

Well, for various reasons I actually ended up going back from Kubuntu to
Debian 7.4.
And inadvertently I installed 32-bit 7.4 instead of 64-bit 7.4.
For whatever reason, I now do not have have the audio problem, at least not
nearly as severely.
This is based on 5 minutes of listening.  I really need to test it for an
hour,
but before I was getting clicks and pops every several seconds.
Besides the 32 bit and 64 bit difference, the only other thing I can think
of was that I had installed


apt-get install sox

apt-get install pavucontrol

before I had tried to listening to music on (64 bit), so I am not sure
which it was.
If I do anything that causes it to come back I will email Debian bug
tracking.
Thanks.

- Scott


On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Scott
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Scott Borisch <scott.borisch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Felipe,
> >
> > 1) I actually ended up re-installing with Kubuntu 13.10 64-bit, (1) to
> see
> > if it fixed the problem, but (2) because there where unrelated reasons I
> > decided Kubuntu would work better for me.
> > 2) However, I still get the pop/click/dropouts in Kubuntu, albeit not as
> > severely.
> > 3) I have attached 5 log files.  (1) The ones with pa in the name are
> from
> > pulseaudio -vvvv command.  The ones with 1404 in the name are from
> Kubuntu
> > 14.04
> > (installed directly from 13.10 upgrade GUI -- I had installed 13.10 from
> CD)
> > -- the ones without 1404 in the name are Kubuntu 13.10 64-bit.  (3) The
> ones
> > with pactl in the name are from the pactl command.
> > 4) Based on the output in the pa***.log files, I'm not sure the command
> > worked as desired (albeit under Kubuntu, not Debian).
>
> The logs are not very useful, because the daemon was already running
> so pa exits. Please retry the pa -k ; pa -vvvv dance until the new
> daemon sticks (ie, it doesn't exit right away).
>
>
> > 5) Since I'm using Kubuntu now, let me know if I should just contact
> them on
> > the issue instead.  I don't know how different pulseaudio is under
> Kubuntu
> > vs. Debian.
>
> It wil make it harder to debug because debian unstable is a version
> ahead of Kubuntu.
>
>
> PS: please remember to CC the bug report.
>
> --
>
> Saludos,
> Felipe Sateler
>
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