Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.13-2 Severity: important (this refers to the pulseaudio and KDE 4.2 packages from experimental)
PulseAudio ships /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop to automatically start the PulseAudio user server when a desktop environment such as KDE starts running. Under KDE 4.2 the startup races with the other autostart items, resulting in phonon (the audio abstraction layer) failing to detect PulseAudio: it initializes and looks for the PA server before PA is running. I don't know if this also effects the GNOME environment, but it seems likely that any environment that started the PulseAudio system from the XDG directory would be vulnerable to this same race. I fixed it myself by using a script in .kde4/env to start PulseAudio prior to any KDE components loading, but the same could be done using a script in the (Debian specific) /etc/X11/Xsession.d directory. I rated this bug 'important' because I suspect that this is a race between Phonon and PulseAudio but I can't actually prove it: I /never/ had PA win the race, so KDE / Phonon always reported that PulseAudio was not working. On that basis I think it is reasonable to believe that, at least for some users, KDE4 will probably never be able to use PulseAudio sound with the current setup, and certainly not with any reliability. Anything started after KDE initialized did work with PA as expected, of course, so it is clear that PA is working, just racing with Phonon. Finally, this could be argued to be a bug in KDE4, which might better automatically start PulseAudio or something like that. I felt, in balance, that the XDG startup issue might show up with other environments, but if you disagree please reassign this to the 'phonon' package. Regards, Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii consolekit 0.2.10-5 framework for defining and trackin ii libasound2 1.0.18-1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libasyncns0 0.3-1 Asyncronous name service query lib ii libbluetooth2 3.36-1 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libflac8 1.2.1-1.2 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-4 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libltdl3 1.5.26-4 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii libogg0 1.1.3-4 Ogg Bitstream Library ii liboil0.3 0.3.15-1 Library of Optimized Inner Loops ii libpolkit-dbus2 0.9-2 library for accessing PolicyKit vi ii libpolkit2 0.9-2 library for accessing PolicyKit ii libpulsecore8 0.9.13-2 PulseAudio sound server core ii libsamplerate0 0.1.4-1 audio rate conversion library ii libsndfile1 1.0.17-4 Library for reading/writing audio ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex extended runtime library ii libwrap0 7.6.q-16 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends: ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.9.7-2 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio ii libasound2-plugins 1.0.18-2 ALSA library additional plugins ii padevchooser 0.9.3-2 PulseAudio Device Chooser ii paprefs 0.9.6-2 PulseAudio Preferences ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.13-2 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer ii pulseaudio-module-hal 0.9.13-2 HAL device detection module for Pu ii pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.13-2 X11 module for PulseAudio sound se Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests: ii paman 0.9.4-1 PulseAudio Manager ii pavucontrol 0.9.7-1 PulseAudio Volume Control ii pavumeter 0.9.3-1 PulseAudio Volume Meter ii pulseaudio-utils 0.9.13-2 Command line tools for the PulseAu -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-pulseaudio-devel mailing list Pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-pulseaudio-devel