Amarok sound output crashes at random

[Luke]

Binary package hint: amarok

In Amarok, under the default-version Gnome desktop, the sound output through a Riptide ALSA sound card crashes. The device is still functional, outputting sound through the test function of the default sound configuration for Amarok, but the Amarok plugin disappears from the sound preferences console, cutting off output from Amarok. Other applications, including Rhythmbox, function normally. Amarok application still runs and appears to be playing meanwhile. After quitting the application (including the notification app) and restarting (the app), the plugin reinstates itself, and functions normally until a later crash (usually 10-20 minutes later). When monitoring during the crash, CPU power is available, as is RAM.

The CPU is a higher-end Intel Coppermine (first run), and there is 364 MB of memory. The SWAP file is around 2 GB on an IDE hard drive (possibly 5400 RPM).

This crash has happened since a kernel upgrade, to a version of 2.6 ending in a ".17". The app has not been uninstalled and reinstalled.

The Version of Gnome in question is 2.26, and the Ubuntu in use is version 9.10 with KDE desktop packages installed, along with a linuxant coexant driver for Riptide audio solutions, which seems to not be proprietary. A generic .deb was used, reinstalled after the Kernel upgrade. The Driver was correctly identified by all components.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 26 11:32:42 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/amarok
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: amarok 2:2.2.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic-pae
SourcePackage: amarok
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic-pae i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1607): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1663): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1672): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:1662): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 24

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

Reassigning to Ph0onon, Amarok doesn't handle sound itself

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Sounds like something is failing in pulseaudio.

[Luke (lukem33p)]

Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> Sounds like something is failing in pulseaudio.
>
> ** Package changed: phonon (Ubuntu) => pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
>
> As far as I could tell, no other applications were failing like this. However, Amarok has not failed while running the program on the KDE desktop. I can't get any more specific than that, though, as Amarok, I believe, is still using the KDE packages and such. I don't know, though, I'm just a clueless convert...

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Configure Phonon to use PulseAudio as the primary output.

[Luke (lukem33p)]

Pulseaudio wasn't my sound driver, though. I was using an ALSA audio driver
for Riptide. Pulseaudio would not output sound. I wouldn't worry about it
though. It was a 10-year-old (at least) computer, and needed and got a
replacement.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Daniel T Chen <email address hidden>wrote:

> Configure Phonon to use PulseAudio as the primary output.
>
> ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> --
> Amarok sound output crashes at random
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512932
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: amarok
>
> In Amarok, under the default-version Gnome desktop, the sound output
> through a Riptide ALSA sound card crashes. The device is still functional,
> outputting sound through the test function of the default sound
> configuration for Amarok, but the Amarok plugin disappears from the sound
> preferences console, cutting off output from Amarok. Other applications,
> including Rhythmbox, function normally. Amarok application still runs and
> appears to be playing meanwhile. After quitting the application (including
> the notification app) and restarting (the app), the plugin reinstates
> itself, and functions normally until a later crash (usually 10-20 minutes
> later). When monitoring during the crash, CPU power is available, as is RAM.
>
> The CPU is a higher-end Intel Coppermine (first run), and there is 364 MB
> of memory. The SWAP file is around 2 GB on an IDE hard drive (possibly 5400
> RPM).
>
> This crash has happened since a kernel upgrade, to a version of 2.6 ending
> in a ".17". The app has not been uninstalled and reinstalled.
>
> The Version of Gnome in question is 2.26, and the Ubuntu in use is version
> 9.10 with KDE desktop packages installed, along with a linuxant coexant
> driver for Riptide audio solutions, which seems to not be proprietary. A
> generic .deb was used, reinstalled after the Kernel upgrade. The Driver was
> correctly identified by all components.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Jan 26 11:32:42 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/amarok
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> Package: amarok 2:2.2.0-0ubuntu2
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic-pae
> SourcePackage: amarok
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic-pae i686
> XsessionErrors:
> (gnome-settings-daemon:1607): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error:
> assertion `src != NULL' failed
> (nautilus:1663): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
> `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1672): GLib-CRITICAL **:
> g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
> (gnome-panel:1662): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to
> allocate widget with width -5 and height 24
>
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