[Bug 213053] Re: Totem is 'uninterruptible'
Would like to say I'm also having this problem. It happens rather regularly too. This time Pidgin is affected, it's uninterruptible and is hovering around the 70% CPU range, sometimes climbing to 100%. All the files it seems to have open are *.wav files, so that may point to it being PulseAudio? Seems to happen to a random program (usually the one opened last) which is trying to play sound - Firefox 3 and Pidgin have been affected so far. Weirdly, however, I have killed PulseAudio, restarted RhythmBox and it's still playing! Even though it hasn't restarted PulseAudio, so maybe I'm not killing the right thing (or maybe RhythmBox doesn't use PulseAudio, which might therefore point to another culprit not releasing the sound device? Stabs in the dark..) It presents itself by making my system sluggish, but not unusable, so I'll leave it on with the program in the background for a little while, see if it relents. If you need more details or for me to test anything, please let me know. It happens rather regularly to me so I'm sure I can get a result of an experiment quite quickly ^_~ -- Totem is 'uninterruptible' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213053 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 213053] Re: Totem is 'uninterruptible'
Haven't been able to get it to crash today. However, I have observed some odd behavior: If I play a youtube, rhythmbox won't play at the same time. When the Youtube ends, I have to restart Rhythmbox for it to play again. Same with VLC. However, if I leave my Rhythmbox playing, Youtube can't play sounds. I have to close Rhythmbox, then close Firefox, and then re-open. Now, I spend hours on end playing from my Rhythmbox library or my VLC video (ahem) collection, whilst browsing the internet. The internet is full of flash with music, which I usually watch soundless if at all. But we're talking hours without closing these programs. So, I suppose my question is, has this got to do with the way that Adobe's Flash is interfacing with the sound card? If so, is there a buffer that's filling and filling until it sends errors back to the program filling it? Or not sending a confirmation, leaving the program to keep the request open? This is pseudo-techie talk, so bear with me here, but it would explain why Pidgin still had 6-7 sound files open once the program was meant to be closed. Thing is, Pidgin, Totem and Rhythmbox usually play well together. So is Adobe-Flash what's throwing the spanner in the works? Has anyone else affected by this got Adobe-Flash on their system? It's another stab in the dark - I'll update when it crashes tomorrow ;) -- Totem is 'uninterruptible' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213053 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 213053] Re: Totem is 'uninterruptible'
Hey, Tried those steps (apart from Part D, I understand that's just to add an equaliser to improve sound quality?) but it hasn't made any obvious differences. Flash still doesn't play nicely with the rest of the world, as before. I'll keep trying to crash it! ^_~ -- Totem is 'uninterruptible' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213053 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 213053] Re: Totem is 'uninterruptible'
That 'fix' actually made things less usable. If I was running Flash, Rhythmbox would finish what it was playing then stall when starting the next song. The only solution was to close everything that was using sounds (Firefox, Pidgin, Rhythmbox) and start it all up again. Whatever what 'fix' did must've made Flash queue for use of the sound card, but Flash still wasn't releasing the card afterward. Psuedo-techie guess anyway ^_~ I have reverted, will keep updating as I progress. -- Totem is 'uninterruptible' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213053 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
