Re: pulseaudio trouble

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:15:30AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:10:50PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > If recently rebuilt all my packages with pulseaudio.
> > When I now start xine, it sometimes just hangs before the GUI is
> > completely there. If I pkill pulseaudio at that point in time, it
> > starts and works fine.
> 
> My concrete problem was that
> /usr/pkg/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper didn't have the setuid bit
> set.
> Also, from some warnings in the startup log (-vv) I decided to install
> consolekit.
> 
> pulseaudio now looks much better, I got xine to play through it :)

Some time later:
pulseaudio works much better when I started it manually.
When I let xine start it, it usually hangs instead.

Also, when I pause xine and continue after more than a few seconds,
the sound output is constant = 0; the output is still shown in
pavucontrol though.
 Thomas