Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Freezing after playing for around 8 hours

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On Dec 26, 2007 8:33 AM, Jonathan Matthew <notverysmart gmail com> wrote:

On Dec 26, 2007 10:59 PM, Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com> wrote:
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> On Dec 26, 2007 6:32 AM, Jonathan Matthew < notverysmart gmail com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Dec 25, 2007 10:18 AM, Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com>
> wrote:

> > > Also, not to doubt you, but that seems like just a workaround. Is there
> an
> > > underlying (gstreamer?) bug behind this?
> >
> > Yes, this is just a workaround. It's probably a bug in dmix. I haven't
> > investigated any further.
> >
>
> I'm willing to do the legwork, though I'm not sure how to determine that. If
> I run RB in debug mode, gdb, etc., would that avail anything useful to
> determine what the problem is?

The first thing to do is to narrow it down a bit. If you can reproduce
the problem with gst-launch, it eliminates rhythmbox as a cause. If
you can reproduce it with aplay (or some other simple alsa program),
it eliminates gstreamer as a cause.

Well, short of coming up with a 12-hour playlist for gst-launch or aplay, I haven't been able to test this yet.

Just wondering though: with Ubuntu Hardy, they'll be switching the main sound "backend" (is that the right word?) to PulseAudio. Would that have any effect on this behavior?

Cheers,
Andrew