Bug 513785

Summary: pulseaudio cause system to freeze
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Juha Heljoranta <juha.heljoranta>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 11CC: itamar, kernel-maint, lkundrak, lpoetter, wtogami
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Output from pulseaudio right before system halted. none

Description Juha Heljoranta 2009-07-25 20:11:35 UTC
Created attachment 355159 [details]
Output from pulseaudio right before system halted.

Description of problem:
My system freezes when watching a low-quality video clip from vlc. By setting an audio output to dummy device the playback works fine. Setting only a video output to dummy still halts the system while playing a video clip. High quality audio/video seems have only minor skipping problems, no system freeze.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pulseaudio-0.9.15-14.fc11.x86_64
alsa-lib-1.0.20-1.fc11.x86_64
kernel-2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64
vlc-1.0.0-0.12rc4.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:
Usually by playing some low quality audio in vlc. Typically ~10 seconds is enough. Sometimes several minutes is required. Seeking the stream while playing usually halts the system quite fast.

Actual results:
Clip plays for few seconds or minutes. Sound is very choppy and clicky at beginning. Sometimes the audio goes silent some seconds before the system halts.

Expected results:
Clip plays smoothly without clicking nor system freeze.

Additional info:
When system freezes only which seems to have any visible effect is alt-SysRq-b. Mouse cursor doesn't move. Log files don't contain anything unusual.

lspci -nn -x:
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Inventec Corporation Device [1170:0040]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22 
Memory at f0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 
Capabilities: [60] MSI: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?> 
Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?> 
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel 
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel 

Attaching output from pulseaudio -vvvvv from a playback session causing a system freeze.

Comment 1 Juha Heljoranta 2009-07-25 20:18:38 UTC
Setting audio output to alsa from vlc and playback works just superb.

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2009-07-25 20:50:52 UTC
Are you using PA in RT mode? (If you don't know then you dont)

Comment 3 Juha Heljoranta 2009-07-25 21:14:19 UTC
AFAIK I am not running PA in real-time mode. This just a default F11 install. 
$ pulseaudio -vvvv 2>&1 | grep pulse-rt
I: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt', PolicyKit refuse to grant us the requested privileges and we have no increase RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits.
I: main.c: For enabling real-time/high-priority scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.

Comment 4 Lennart Poettering 2009-07-26 12:19:48 UTC
Then we have a kernel problem here, because under no circumstances PA -- as a normal userspace process -- should be able to make the machine freeze.

Do your caps/num LEDs blink when the machine freezes like this?

Comment 5 Juha Heljoranta 2009-07-26 12:59:21 UTC
No, the kernel doesn't panic. I've tried roughly ten times to get any useful error messages out of the system before it dies. 
I've tried different alt-sysrq combos to get some log messages but its like the the whole system is zapped instantly with kill -9. Nothing works, not even the caps lock. Although the alt-sysrq-b makes the system to boot...

I could try to setup netconsole to see if has better changes to capture something useful. Let me know if I should give it a try.

fwiw, # cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted
0

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