[Cooker] Debugging PulseAudio - Instructions

[Colin Guthrie-8]

Hi,

Please forgive the few hiccups that are inevitable when transitioning to
a new way of working under cooker. We should all expect these things
from time to time, but both myself and Fred are trying to make things as
smooth as possible.

If you have trouble with pulseaudio, please let us know, but check the
blockers on this meta bug first please, just in case someone else has
already reported the issue.
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=35933

Please also try not to make any changes to the configuration files
unless you are just curious and want to learn more. The idea will be to
get things working for everyone out of the box.

Also, although some of you may read that you need to run a system wide
pulseaudio daemon to get sound working for all users, please disregard
this. The only reason to run PA as a system wide daemon is to have
*simultaneous* output from different users. User switching works
perfectly with a personal pulse audio daemon and this is what is
encouraged by upstream.


If you do open a bug report can you:
1. Tell us how pulse was started (e.g. in Gnome or Other)
2. Tell us the command line (ps aux| grep pulse)
3. Let us know if the config files are tweaked in any way.
4. Check permissions on the folder /tmp/pulse-$USER
5. Ensure you have SHM enabled. e.g /dev/shm is mounted as a tmpfs and
is owned by root with 777+t permissions.
6. If possible kill pulse, and start it via the command line with
"pulseaudio -vvvv" and reporduce your problem, then post the output.


Make sure you block the above bug with your bug report.

Thanks for your patience.

Col


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Is the switch to PA supposed to be automatic (i.e., handled by a
simple "urpmi --auto-select")? If not, a pointer to the upgrade
instructions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Arn

[Frederik Himpe]

On zo, 2007-12-09 at 11:46 -0600, AAW wrote:
> Is the switch to PA supposed to be automatic (i.e., handled by a
> simple "urpmi --auto-select")? If not, a pointer to the upgrade
> instructions would be appreciated.

urpmi task-pulseaudio, and best to make sure you are not using
no-suggests.

--
Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@...>

On Sunday, December 9, 2007, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> urpmi task-pulseaudio, and best to make sure you are not using
> no-suggests.

Got it.

Thanks,
Arn