Bug#850806: [pulseaudio] pulseaudio hangs in "context_autospawn"

[Bogdan Vatra]

Hi,

Attached, but there is not to much in it ...

BTW, immediately aster I'm installing pulseaudio a few (3-4) instances are 
spawn instantly.

 
On marți, 10 ianuarie 2017 08:35:05 EET Felipe Sateler wrote:
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> 
> Hello Bogdan,
> 
> 
> On Jan 10, 2017 07:39, "Bogdan Vatra" <bogdan.vatra at kdab.com> wrote:
> 
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 9.0-5
> Severity: important
> 
> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> For some time (~1month) pulseaudio doesn't work anymore on my system (after
> I
> upgrade my os ~1mounth ago). Until now I just removed it because didn't had
> time to check. But today I've installed libpulse0-dbgsym and
> pulseaudio-dbgsym
> packages and I could trace (more or less) the problem.
> 
> $ gdb pactl
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> Reading symbols from pactl...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb) set args stat
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /usr/bin/pactl stat
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
> ^C
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007ffff727cb2a in __waitpid (pid=pid at entry=990,
> stat_loc=stat_loc at entry=0x7fffffffd8f8, options=options at entry=0)
>     at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/waitpid.c:29
> #1  0x00007ffff7b98d00 in context_autospawn (c=c at entry=0x5555557647c0) at
> pulse/context.c:751
> #2  0x00007ffff7b9900f in try_next_connection (c=c at entry=0x5555557647c0) at
> pulse/context.c:843
> #3  0x00007ffff7b99c7d in pa_context_connect (c=0x5555557647c0,
> server=<optimized out>, flags=<optimized out>, api=0x0)
>     at pulse/context.c:1042
> #4  0x0000555555557a04 in main ()
> 
> As you can see it's hanged in context_autospawn, sadly I have no idea what
> to
> do next (besides removing it again) :).
> 
> 
> This suggests the server is failing to start. Is there a pulseaudio process
> running?(my guess is not) Could you start pulseaudio manually in verbose
> mode to see what it says?
> 
> pulseaudio -vvvv --log-target=file:pa.log
> 
> And then please attach pa.log to this report
> 
> Saludos,
> Felipe Sateler

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