Bug 425871

Summary: pulse audio occasionally fails to initialize after a reboot.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Leslie Satenstein <lsatenstein>
Component: pulseaudioAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 8CC: jonstanley, libbe, lkundrak, pierre-bugzilla
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cat messages | grep pulse > /tmp/pulse.log none

Description Leslie Satenstein 2007-12-17 00:57:03 UTC 
Description of problem:

Under certain reboot situations, pulse audio does not start. It takes a poweroff
reboot to get it to function properly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

It is random. I am curious about other distributions and also, my defaults,
which are  F8-64bit (on one drive) and F7-32bit on the other. 
If I "evaluate" the other distributions, and I then return to F8_64bit there is
no assurance that pulse audio will start.  Note. This problem is random.



Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

No audio whatsoever.

Expected results:

Pulse audio should always restart.

Additional info:

The mother board is an intel d945gnt, the system memory is 3gigs. The bios is
dated Sept 2007.  F8 is current as of filing this bug report.
Comment 1 Jon Stanley 2007-12-17 01:07:20 UTC 
Are there relevant error messages or log files generated when it fails?  Check
in /var/log/messages and dmesg for anything unusual at the very least.  There's
very little information for anyone to take any action on here.
Comment 2 Leslie Satenstein 2007-12-17 03:07:12 UTC 
Created attachment 289746 [details]
cat messages | grep pulse > /tmp/pulse.log

Hope this helps Jon.
Comment 3 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-12-20 12:51:36 UTC 
Dec 16 20:03:30 localhost pulseaudio[3323]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Dec 16 20:03:30 localhost pulseaudio[3323]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find mixer
control "Master".
Dec 16 20:03:30 localhost pulseaudio[3323]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback
mixer control "PCM".
Dec 16 20:14:45 localhost pulseaudio[3323]: module-volume-restore.c: failed to
open file '(null)': No such file or directory
Dec 16 20:14:57 localhost pulseaudio[3735]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find mixer
control "Master".
Dec 16 20:14:57 localhost pulseaudio[3735]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback
mixer control "PCM".
Comment 4 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-12-20 12:55:05 UTC 
This seems to me as a kernel/alsa or BIOS problem. Is there a BIOS update for
the board available?

Please compare outputs of "amixer -c0  scontrols" in cases when sound works and
when not. Thanks!
Comment 5 Leslie Satenstein 2007-12-26 16:14:37 UTC 
Re bios update. My mother board is an Intel D945gnt with the most recent bios,
as I indicated in the initial entry.
 
Today is Dec 26th, and the problem has stopped occurring. 
Since raising this bug(let) ndiswrapper and some other related updates have
occurred and I have not experienced this problem for at least 10 days. I would
drop the priority of this problem to zero, and I will check back in January. If
it works ok for 3 weeks, I will close this bug report. Since the bug is a small
one, I call it a buglet.
Comment 6 Leslie Satenstein 2008-01-01 05:47:06 UTC 
Today is January 1, 2008.  Since Dec 26, with around 5 boots per day (I have an
experimental Fedora 8 system), pulse audio has started every time.

I believe that patches in the system since the Nov 2007 release have repaired
the problem.