Bug#752762: load-module module-alsa-sink freezes display

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Michael Meskes <meskes at debian.org> wrote:
>> > Jun 26 12:54:57 feivel pulseaudio[3128]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
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>> Yes, this is expected, because that module needs the card details to
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> Wouldn't it be better than to have the line look like this?
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> #load-module module-alsa-sink <card-details>

Probably... but I don'y think we should carry a patch for that.

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>> load. Is this message shown only once, or repeatedly? Does the log say
>> afterwards:
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> Only once.
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>> [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
>> [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
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> Yes, it did.
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>> What DE/WM are you using? Were there sounds being played at the moment?
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> gnome-shell, everything up-to-date sid, no sounds being displayed.

When pulseaudio is working, does sound play? IIRC, gnome starts some
sounds on startup.

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>> This error is weird, because the module load failure should just cause
>> pulseaudio to exit. Perhaps something caused PA to respawn repeatedly?
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> Does it do that if it's, like, killed at the beginning of a session?

Yes. By default, pulseaudio is autospawned whenever a connection is
attempted. You can disable this behavior in client.conf.

Did the gdm/xsession/any other log have something useful to say?
Currently I'm quite stumped as to where the bug may be.

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>> > I tried using this module in an attempt to figure out why my sound doesn't work
>> > correctly, or in other words, not at all when using the defaults.
>>
>> For this, try using pavucontrol. There you can see if your card is
>> actually being picked up.
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> I tried that before to no avail as there appeared to be something wrong with
> pulseaudio in general. Since then I found the problem, a misconfigured default
> sink in client.conf. I don't remember editing this file at all, but maybe that
> was an old config from back when.

Good that you have sound now, then.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler