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Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.21-4
Severity: normal
Hi,
Today I was hit by a full up disk problem that caused the bug I am talking
about; pulseaudio then fills up /var/log/syslog with the following messages,
every 5 seconds (yes, these are localized):
Mar 29 22:59:21 nsk pulseaudio[18495]: pid.c: Failed to write PID file.
Mar 29 22:59:21 nsk pulseaudio[18495]: main.c: Échec de pa_pid_file_create().
Mar 29 22:59:21 nsk pulseaudio[18493]: main.c: Échec lors du démarrage du
démon.
I think it cannot write the PID file because the disk is full, but spaming the
log like that worsen the problem, as /var is not on a separate partition here.
BTW, I found out about this problem because pulseaudio was also stuck at 100%
CPU (don't know if it's related; it's not like it's the first time I see that…)
I don't know exactly what it should do, but I see a lot of problem with
pulseaudio trying harder when things fail: sometime, it's better to just give
up.
Regards,
benjamin
PS: my changed config file is just some lines I commented; no actual change
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii consolekit 0.4.4-1 framework for defining and trackin
ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libc6 2.11.2-13 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcap2 1:2.20-1 support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.6-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-9 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii libice6 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libltdl7 2.2.6b-2 A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii libpulse0 0.9.21-4 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libsamplerate0 0.1.7-3 Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libsndfile1 1.0.24-1 Library for reading/writing audio
ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex extended runtime library
ii libudev0 166-1 libudev shared library
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.0-1 X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii udev 166-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.28-2 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii libasound2-plugins 1.0.23-1+b1 ALSA library additional plugins
ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.21-4 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.21-4 X11 module for PulseAudio sound se
Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii paman 0.9.4-1 PulseAudio Manager
ii paprefs 0.9.9-2 PulseAudio Preferences
ii pavucontrol 0.9.9-1 PulseAudio Volume Control
ii pavumeter 0.9.3-1 PulseAudio Volume Meter
ii pulseaudio-utils 0.9.21-4 Command line tools for the PulseAu
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Benjamin Cama <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Felipe,
>
> Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 20:08 -0300, Felipe Sateler a écrit :
>> > Today I was hit by a full up disk problem that caused the bug I am talking
>> > about; pulseaudio then fills up /var/log/syslog with the following
>> > messages,
>> > every 5 seconds (yes, these are localized):
>> >
>> > Mar 29 22:59:21 nsk pulseaudio[18495]: pid.c: Failed to write PID file.
>> > Mar 29 22:59:21 nsk pulseaudio[18495]: main.c: Échec de
>> > pa_pid_file_create().
>> > Mar 29 22:59:21 nsk pulseaudio[18493]: main.c: Échec lors du démarrage
>> > du démon.
>>
>> Can you still reproduce this issue? This bug was filed a long time ago
>> and it could have been fixed already. If you still can reproduce it
>> please reply so we can debug this. Otherwise, I'd like to close this
>> bug.
>
> Thanks for taking care of following this old bug! I tried to fill up my
> disk, but much things have changed: pulseaudio is now a per-session
> daemon, and I don't know where it stores its pid file. I tried to kill
> it and restart it with "pulseaudio --start" while the disk was full, and
> it didn't complain (nothing appear in the logs). I only filled up "/"
> though, and maybe the per-session daemon creates its pid somewhere in my
> home, which wasn't full? Anyway, I think you can close it.
Thanks for checking. I now see the PID file is created in
/run/user/<userid>/pulse, which is mounted on a tmpfs, so that this
problem is unlikely to occur.
Closing the bug then.
Thanks!
--
Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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