Hi

I could not check the pulseaudio dependency for gws, as libsndfile does not
have it.

I have had pulseaudio for a year or so, and it was fine.  I used it mainly
because VirtualBox depended on it to emulate a sound car on its virtual
machines. Then something broke, and I could not get any sound out of the
speakers, just the first app get the device, and no other after that.

Then, after Dale asked me why did I need pulseaudio, I saw that VirtualBox
now is able to handle plain and simple ALSA, then I removed all pulseaudio
related things that I could find, rebuilt the kernel with alsa built-in and
everything I need is back making noises ;-)

Francisco


On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:25 PM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> sorry for the nebelous subject...
>
> The following happened to me.
> I have installed/configured pulseaudio according to this
> for a one-person desktop gentoo-system:
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio
>
> When starting gwc (which is not in portage) and playing
> sounds, it works...once...
>
> After a while I here the same clicking sound, which happens
> while booting the system and alsa takes over...and thats it.
> I have to kill gwc.
>
> On the console gwc prints:
>
>    Current stack limit: 8388608 bytes
>    libsndfile Version: libsndfile-1.0.25 1 0 25
>    socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
>    Closing the Pulse audio device
>
> The last line appears when I press "stop audio playback", the clicking
> happes a few seconds later.
>
> After that...no go.
>
> I have appended /etc/pulse/default.pa at the end of this posting.
>
> Interestingly it is possible to successfully restart gwc.
>
> What can I do to fix this?
>
> Best regards,
> mcc
>
>
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF
> #
> # This file is part of PulseAudio.
> #
> # PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
> # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> # (at your option) any later version.
> #
> # PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
> # General Public License for more details.
> #
> # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
> # along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
> # Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
>
> # This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started per-user
> # (i.e. not in system mode)
>
> .nofail
>
> ### Load something into the sample cache
> #load-sample-lazy x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav
> #load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
> #load-sample-lazy pulse-coldplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
> #load-sample-lazy pulse-access /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav
>
> .fail
>
> ### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
> load-module module-device-restore
> load-module module-stream-restore
> load-module module-card-restore
>
> ### Automatically augment property information from .desktop files
> ### stored in /usr/share/application
> load-module module-augment-properties
>
> ### Load audio drivers statically (it's probably better to not load
> ### these drivers manually, but instead use module-hal-detect --
> ### see below -- for doing this automatically)
> load-module module-alsa-sink
> #load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
> #load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output
> source_name=input
> #load-module module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output
> source_name=input
> #load-module module-null-sink
> #load-module module-pipe-sink
>
> ### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
> .ifexists module-udev-detect.so
> load-module module-udev-detect
> .else
> ### Alternatively use the static hardware detection module (for systems
> that
> ### lack udev support)
> load-module module-detect
> .endif
>
> ### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware
> .ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
> load-module module-bluetooth-discover
> .endif
>
> ### Load several protocols
> .ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
> load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
> .endif
> load-module module-native-protocol-unix
>
> ### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented
> ### here if you plan to use paprefs)
> #load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
> #load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
> #load-module module-zeroconf-publish
>
> ### Load the RTP reciever module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
> #load-module module-rtp-recv
>
> ### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
> #load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2
> rate=44100 description="RTP Multicast Sink"
> #load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor
>
> ### Load additional modules from GConf settings. This can be configured
> with the paprefs tool.
> ### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might
> conflict with manually
> ### loaded modules.
> .ifexists module-gconf.so
> .nofail
> load-module module-gconf
> .fail
> .endif
>
> ### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user
> during runtime
> load-module module-default-device-restore
>
> ### Automatically move streams to the default sink if the sink they are
> ### connected to dies, similar for sources
> load-module module-rescue-streams
>
> ### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink.
> load-module module-always-sink
>
> ### Honour intended role device property
> load-module module-intended-roles
>
> ### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
> load-module module-suspend-on-idle
>
> ### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit
> ### when no local session needs us anymore.
> load-module module-console-kit
>
> ### Enable positioned event sounds
> load-module module-position-event-sounds
>
> ### Cork music streams when a phone stream is active
> load-module module-cork-music-on-phone
>
> # X11 modules should not be started from default.pa so that one daemon
> # can be shared by multiple sessions.
>
> ### Load X11 bell module
> #load-module module-x11-bell sample=bell-windowing-system
>
> ### Register ourselves in the X11 session manager
> #load-module module-x11-xsmp
>
> ### Publish connection data in the X11 root window
> #.ifexists module-x11-publish.so
> #.nofail
> #load-module module-x11-publish
> #.fail
> #.endif
>
> ### Make some devices default
> #set-default-sink output
> #set-default-source input
>
>