[jaunty] pulseaudio terminates by using the gnome mixer applet

[Christian Roessner]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Hi,

1. Hardware-information:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
aplay -l
**** Liste von PLAYBACK Geräten ****
Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
  Untergeordnete Geräte: 1/1
  Untergeordnetes Gerät '0: subdevice #0
Karte 0: Intel [HDA Intel], Gerät 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
  Untergeordnete Geräte: 1/1
  Untergeordnetes Gerät '0: subdevice #0

2. Ubuntu release:
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty

3. Problem description:
I do have many sound problems since pulseaudio first came into Ubuntu. Because intrepid was very unstable for me, I decided to upgrade to the current dev version with the hope that many bugs would have been fixed; here audio.

After the gnome-desktop has been started up, I right click on the volume-symbol and try to choose the volume control setting. After that the applet crashes. I found out that it crashes because pulseaudio was terminated with this selection. No crash-report got created, so I tried to debug pulseaudio manually, which seems not to be possible (See the attached file).

I do not no why pulseaudio is terminating, but it does every time. A really dramatic problem with the mixer_applet2 is, when trying to right-click the preferences menu. After that the x-server freezes and I only can switch to tty1 where I have to stop gdm and restart it.

I tried to remove all the ~/.pulse* files, rebooting, even tried to

dpkg --force-depends --purge pulseaudio and libpulse0, aptitude -f installed again, removed the /var/lib/alsa/asound.state file, rebooted. No luck. No sound.

After Hardy, Intrepid and now Jaunty I can say that I really hate pulseaudio, because it is not really stable and ready for end-users and I really can not understand Ubuntu´s decision to include it (but that´s only my opinion).

Maybe you can do wonders. Thanks so far

Christian

[Christian Roessner (christian-roessner-net)]

It was the /etc/init.d/pulseaudio, which terminated because of a missing feature --dissalow-exit.

But I also found out that the daemon does not solve the problem. By using the console and alsamixer -c1, I can configure my sound, so it seems it it a mixer_applet2 bug.

Unfortunatley the virtualisation sound from KVM is broken at the moment. So I keep patient :-)

Sorry for making circumstances.