[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#601120: audacious: Hangs after a random amount of time playing music

[John Lindgren]

reassign 601120 libasound2
retitle 601120 libasound2: snd_pcm_status() hangs
thanks

snd_pcm_status should be an instantaneous call.  Reassign to ALSA package.

-- John

On 11/02/2010 06:01 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 01:00:21PM -0400, John Lindgren wrote:
>> Can you tell us:
>> - What sort of file (MP3, AAC, Vorbis, etc.) you are trying to play, and
> mp3 and vorbis, at leat.
>> on what medium (hard disk, CD, network)?
> local hard disk
>> - What type of audio output you are using (ALSA, PulseAudio, OSS, etc.)?
> ALSA
>> Then, can you run Audacious from within GDB, stop the process when it is
>> hung, and take a backtrace?
> Sure. From 2.3-2 with -dbg packages installed:
>
> #0  0xb7fe2424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb7735876 in nanosleep () from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
> #2  0xb5db5393 in snd_atomic_read_wait () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
> #3  0xb5dda762 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
> #4  0xb5dbae15 in snd_pcm_status () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
> #5  0xb5dce40b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
> #6  0xb5dbae15 in snd_pcm_status () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
> #7  0xb58c8003 in real_output_time () at alsa.c:127
> #8  0xb58c8235 in alsa_output_time () at alsa.c:387
> #9  0x0806ff7a in send_audio (unused=0x0) at vis_runner.c:51
> #10 0xb7f1ba7c in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #11 0xb7f1b305 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #12 0xb7f1efe8 in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #13 0xb7f1f527 in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #14 0xb7c32e19 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #15 0xb5fa798e in skins_init (cbs=0x80bd560) at plugin.c:142
> #16 0x08059879 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff504) at main.c:554
>
> Note that running under gdb seems to reliably cause a crash after
> less than a second of playback, whereas the time until crash is
> more variable without.
>
> Also, sounds appears generally well-functioning on this system; it's
> not a crash that appears with other programs.
>
> Dominic