Tom

Works great :-)
Thanks!

John

On Friday, June 28, 2013 09:22:39 am Tom Wallis wrote:
> Dear All:
> 
> I may have found some solutions for the Pulseaudio problems on Debian 7
> LTSP clients.  Several people on this list have posted about this with
> their solutions.  I found this to be very helpful and thanks to all that
> have posted here!
> 
> The main problem seems to be Pulseaudio is started in system mode and
> can easily crash or lock up in the default configuration.    The first
> part of the possible fix I am using comes from this list in a transcript
> of an IRC conversation with "Ford_Prefect".  It suggests the problem
> lies in a module that isn't loaded by default (module-suspend-on-idle).
> In the chroot, I edited this file:
> 
> /usr/share/ltsp/ltsp-init-common
> 
> I added the line:
> 
> -L module-suspend-on-idle \
> 
> directly before the "-n &" line.  This seemed to help a lot!
> 
> I have some 64 bit clients (running Debian AMD64) that were not starting
> Pulseaudio.  I don't know if this is a timing bug or if 32 bit clients
> don't have this problem.  After using strace on the pulseaudio startup
> code in this same file, I found out that Pulseaudio startup seems to
> crash when it tries to open "/var/lib/pulse".  My fix was to put these
> two lines:
> 
> /bin/rm -rf /var/lib/pulse
> 
> sleep 2
> 
> into the ltsp-init-common file right before the line  that sets the
> "PULSE_DETECT" variable.  This seems to have fixed the problem.  On
> startup, Pulseaudio recreates this directory if it doesn't exist.
> 
> These two patches seem to have helped my Debian 7 LTSP clients.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tom Wallis
> Wichita State University
> Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics
> 
> 
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