Bug#910512: pulseaudio: Pulseaudio takes longer to start than default systemd timeout

[Felipe Sateler]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: tags -1 moreinfo

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 11:21 AM Riaas Mokiem <riaasm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 12.2-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
>
Lowering severity since it does not appear to affect everyone.


> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Pulseaudio is taking longer to start up than the default 90 seconds that
> systemd allows for a service. This means that Pulseaudio does not work on
> startup and no matter how much you try to restart it (through systemd),
> it won't start up correctly.
>
> Not sure if this is the cause, but this happened after a recent upgrade
> that
> removed consolekit and upgraded the linux kernel from 4.18.0-1 to 4.18.0-2
> I changed the timeout of pulseaudio.service to 5 minutes which allowed
> Pulseaudio sufficient time to start up correctly.
>
> I have pretty decent hardware though, so I would have expected the default
> timeout for Pulseaudio to be more than sufficient. It has been sufficient
> on this hardware until now. I'm not sure what's relevant for Pulseaudio,
> but
> my system uses the motherboard's onboard sound chip (Realtek ALC S1220A) on
> an AMD Ryzen system.
>
> I'm not sure why Pulseaudio is suddenly taking so much longer to start (or
> maybe
> systemd shortened the default timeout). But it's worth noting that for
> some
> reason I still had HDMI audio output, even with pulseaudio timed out. This
> is
> something that actually hadn't worked before and I haven't really tested it
> since the kernel with amdgpu dc has been available. Not sure if that's
> relevant.
>


Possibly. Could you attach a verbose log?

$ systemctl --user --runtime edit pulseaudio
Add the following lines to the file
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no -vvvv

Then restart pulseaudio, and get the log with `journalctl --user-unit
pulseaudio --since "$when_you_restarted_pulseaudio"`


-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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