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

[Bogdan Vatra]

On marți, 10 ianuarie 2017 20:01:29 EET Bogdan Vatra wrote:
> On marți, 10 ianuarie 2017 19:47:44 EET Bogdan Vatra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On marți, 10 ianuarie 2017 14:21:02 EET Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > On 10 January 2017 at 12:59, Bogdan Vatra <bogdan.vatra at kdab.com> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Wow, that hangs pretty fast. I'm guessing it hangs while trying to
> > > acquire high-priority scheduling.
> > > 
> > > The initial bug did not report the architecture, which one it is? Are
> > > you using a debian-provided kernel or a custom-built one?
> > > 
> > > Could you please (after installing pulseaudio-dbgsym), run under gdb
> > > and present the trace of where it hangs? Note this is different from
> > > the backtrace you already showed, as that is from the client, and we
> > > want the one from the server.
> > 
> > I strace it and judging from the log it doesn't seem to hang.
> > Anyway I attached for you the gdb log as you requested.
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to answer the arch & kernel questions :)
> I'm using debian amd64 with debian-provided kernel (I'm way too lazy to
> build my own).
> 
> BogDan.

Ah, I was wrong, it ~hangs (actually it waits 25s for every call) in 
rtkit_make_high_priority, when it calls 
dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block ....
and it happens because rtkit fails to start :(

BogDan.