https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=403728 Summary: PulseAudio is completely broken Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Sound AssignedTo: tiwai@novell.com ReportedBy: fejj@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- I did a clean install of openSUSE 11.0 on my Lenovo T61 laptop yesterday (had been running openSUSE 10.3 previously). So... PulseAudio. W. T. F. All day yesterday I'd been wondering why my sound volume was so low even though I had cranked it all the way up to 100%. Since I was mostly focused getting work done yesterday, I didn't spend any time investigating until last night when I was forced to do so. I went to watch a DVD in Xine while also IM'ing some friends in Pidgin, but the sound was so low I could barely hear anything. So a friend on IRC suggested I kill pulseaudio and restart it as this supposedly would help fix the "wonkyness" (evidently I'm not the only one with PulseAudio problems). This worked for a while, long enough to play the DVD iirc, but afterward I had no sound. So I thought "well, I guess this is just more PulseAudio 'wonkyness', so let me kill pulseaudio again". This time when I killed it, my sound card got flooded with every audio event that had happened over the hour or so I was running Xine. Yay. (that was a sarcastic yay in case you couldn't tell) Audio worked again for a bit. At one point, a friend IM's me a link so I clicked it and no browser started up (which seemed a bit odd). Tried it again, still nothing. So I figured "ok, I'll just launch firefox from my gnome-terminal and see if that prints any errors". No errors, but it did just hang. Oh goodie. Ctrl-C'd and killed pulseaudio again. At this point my friend IM'd me again which made Pidgin completely lock up: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 26422 fejj 20 0 3054m 1.3g 27m D 198 33.2 18:55.68 pidgin So the issues of memory usage are perfect for another rant blog post, but the point is that pidgin is completely locked. I can't even kill -9 it (I tried multiple times). I had to Ctrl+Alt+F1, login as root, and `init 3` At this point I was so frustrated that I uninstalled each and every package with pulseaudio in the name before going back to X. Low and behold, after that my audio works flawlessly (well, the Pidgin IM audio events make some crackling which I don't recall happening before I reinstalled, but I can live with it - especially since other audio seems crisp). The point of this bug report is that PulseAudio appears to be a solution in search of a problem while at the same time creating new problems. Seriously though, who the heck needs to be able to redirect audio to another host (only purpose pulseaudio seems to serve afaict) on their desktop/laptop machines? No one, that's who. The only people who might need that are thin clients, so why install it by default? Why not just have the sysadmins for those thin-client networks set this up? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.