ekiga stops playing sound and starts to consume 120% cpu

[Piotr Morgwai Kotarbiński]

Binary package hint: ekiga

Tasks: 158 total, 2 running, 156 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 49.2%us, 16.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 33.4%id, 0.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1984648k total, 1150004k used, 834644k free, 154324k buffers
Swap: 9768952k total, 0k used, 9768952k free, 484732k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 6141 morgwai 20 0 641m 42m 27m S 123 2.2 6:20.07 ekiga

After 10 minutes I killed it with SIGTERM

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 1 16:47:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ekiga
Package: ekiga 3.2.5-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: ekiga
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Piotr Morgwai Kotarbiński (morgwai)]

I forgot to add that just before the exit attempt the sound stopped working at all in ekiga (ie I was testing ring tones and one stopped to playback in the middle so I wanted to restart ekiga to see if it helps)

[Piotr Morgwai Kotarbiński (morgwai)]

Ok, I can repeat this bug easy: here are the steps:
- open ekiga
- go to preferences -> sound events
- attempt to play sound for some event
ekiga will play only less than a second and then will start to consume a lot of cpu and will not exit without SIGTERM.

I'll provide stdout and strace log in a minute.

[Piotr Morgwai Kotarbiński (morgwai)]

when ptraced it behaves a bit different: it plays sound with a lot of noise, starts to consume about 50% of cpu, but exit cleanly when quit is requested. gzipped strace output attached.

[Yannick Defais (sevmek)]

Hi,

Can you reproduce using 3.2.6?

https://launchpad.net/~sevmek/+archive/ekiga-released

Best regards,
Yannick

[Piotr Morgwai Kotarbiński (morgwai)]

yes, it's exactly the same. I've filed an upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600623

[Piotr Morgwai Kotarbiński (morgwai)]

Medium? C'mon folks, VoIP software that can't play sound does not seem as a very useful one... For me it seems like critical...