Totem and Rhythmbox fail to play. Both show as 'playing' with pause button available and show track time, but do not progress or produce sound.

[Andrew O'Brien]

Binary package hint: gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio

Syslog shows:
Jun 5 21:08:00 astrobuntu kernel: [41898.371454] gvfs-gdu-volume[14754]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f72e12312f1 sp 00007fff89d25e00 error 4 in libgdu.so.0.0.0[7f72e1226000+22000]
Jun 5 21:08:01 astrobuntu pulseaudio[9630]: alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device front:0: Device or resource busy
Jun 5 21:08:03 astrobuntu last message repeated 10 times

Actually this might be something to do with firefox or flash. If I close firefox, and even reopen it again, both Totem and Rhythmbox can play simultaneously. That is, until I visit a youtube video.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 5 21:01:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: totem 2.27.1-1ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-6.7-generic
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-6-generic x86_64

[Andrew O'Brien (ar-obrien)]

I tried .ogg, .flac and .mp3 files and all failed.

[Andrew O'Brien (ar-obrien)]

in browser eMusic previews (also flash) also seize audio.

[Josh Adams (knewter)]

I see this exact same behaviour in karmic. I know it also affects at least one other karmic user (arvind_khadri from IRC).

[Arvind (arvindkhadri)]

+1

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

please use apport-collect -p alsa-base 383891

On Sep 13, 2009 8:40 AM, "Josh Adams" <email address hidden> wrote:

I see this exact same behaviour in karmic. I know it also affects at
least one other karmic user (arvind_khadri from IRC).

-- Totem and Rhythmbox fail to play. Both show as 'playing' with pause
button available and show t...

[Andrew O'Brien (ar-obrien)]

Sorry guys, this actually got fixed for me in a patch a little while ago. Sound worked great for a little while, and is now broken again, but differently...

[Spider (spider-alternating)]

Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: spider 15469 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: spider 15469 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf9200000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC889A'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0885,1458a002,00100101'
   Controls : 37
   Simple ctrls : 20
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserAsoundrc:
 # ALSA library configuration file

 # Include settings that are under the control of asoundconf(1).
 # (To disable these settings, comment out this line.)
 </home/spider/.asoundrc.asoundconf>
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Spider (spider-alternating)]

Same behaviour on my system, appears to be related with pulseaudio device suspend as there is a huge "pop" in the speakers when i hit the "next song" key.

[GonzaloPanizo (gonzalo-panizo)]

Same problem for me in a Toshiba Satellite a105, Karmic.
I get sound from flashplayer. I even tried audiotester.sh and it gives me sound telling me I just have to adjust the Master and PCM in a mixer, but no success after trying it.
Please help!!!