Re: pulseaudio and gtk events issues

[Manu TM <manutm007 gmail com>]

Ok, and thank you... :)

Nikolaj Thygesen wrote:

> Sorry, all I can say is that I currently run "pulseaudio-0.9.21.tar.gz" 
> :o) It might have been "0.9.11", but I'm not 100%.
>   
>    br - N :o)
>   
> Manu TM wrote:
>   
> > Do you remember which version of pulseaudio it was? I'm using version:
> >     
> > 1:0.9.19-Oubuntu4-1 (karmic updates.)
> >     
> >     
> > Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin
> >     
> >     
> > Nikolaj Thygesen wrote:
> >     
> >     
> > >  I can't tell you what you're specific issue is (as I'm running 
> > > fbsd), but recently I spent months chasing a bug in my own app, which 
> > > ended up being a thread related bug in pulseaudio, so you might be 
> > > right there. I too had to disable window and button sounds. It 
> > > appeared the gdk lock wasn't handled properly in pulseaudio. This was 
> > > solved by upgrading the pa release.
> > >       
> > >   br - N :o)
> > >       
> > >   Manu TM wrote:
> > >       
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > Hi,
> > > >         
> > > >     I'm trying to debug a gtk app on Ubuntu Karmic that crashes from 
> > > > time to time when I open a
> > > >         
> > > >     dialog. Lately, I have found a precise sequence of UI actions 
> > > > that always reproduces the bug
> > > >         
> > > >     (I open a dialog, pick an option, click or enter ok, then 
> > > > re-open the dialog.) But many other
> > > >         
> > > >     sequences crash my app too. And I always get this error:
> > > >         
> > > >     Assertion 'pthread_setspecific(t->key, userdata) == 0' failed at 
> > > > pulsecore/thread-posic.c:200,
> > > >         
> > > >     function pa_tls_set(). Aborting.
> > > >         
> > > >     So my app seems to crash because an error in pulseaudio, which 
> > > > is strange. I made some google
> > > >         
> > > >     searches and apparently, this problem exists with other apps 
> > > > (Abiword, Flash support in Firefox,
> > > >         
> > > >     Gimp, ...) Then, following a suggestion in a bug report, I 
> > > > opened 'sound-preferences' and disabled
> > > >         
> > > >     'window and button sounds'. And then, no more crashes, ever.
> > > >         
> > > >     I've already posted on this list about the problem and I don't 
> > > > want to spam. But I've been re-
> > > >         
> > > >     checking my sources many times since last month, unsuccessfully. 
> > > > Then my app used to be very
> > > >         
> > > >     stable a couple of months ago and I have checked all the last 
> > > > changes I have made lately. So the
> > > >         
> > > >     question is: could all this relate to an upgrade to Karmic or a 
> > > > newer version of pulseaudio?
> > > >         
> > > >     I know that gtk handles events from windows and buttons and so 
> > > > does pulseaudio. Could it possibly
> > > >         
> > > >     be a bug in pulseaudio on ubuntu (instead of in my app?) Does 
> > > > anyone have an idea of what's going on?
> > > >         
> > > >     Thanks in advance for any clue.
> > > >         
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