Bug 546187

Summary: Pulseaudio in restart loop and spamming /var/log/messages
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Juha Heljoranta <juha.heljoranta>
Component: ConsoleKitAssignee: jmccann
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: cschalle, gilboad, jmccann, lkundrak, lpoetter, wtogami, zing
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Description Juha Heljoranta 2009-12-10 10:41:21 UTC
Created attachment 377425 [details]
Sample from /var/log/messages

Description of problem:
Pulseaudio keeps restarting itself causing /var/log/messages to fill up steadily. Obviously I cannot play any sound and pavucontrol cannot connect to pulseaudio (shows a "busy" cursor).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pulseaudio-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
Start a firefox or some other application which starts pulseaudio automatically. Next the pulseaudio needs to crash or to be killed manually.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run firefox or some other application which restarts pulseaudio automatically.
2. Wait for pulseaudio to crash or kill $(pidof pulseaudio)
  
Actual results:
/var/log/messages filling steadily. Eventually filling the while /var partition.

Expected results:
Pulseaudio restarting normally, sound working and pavucontrol able to adjust volume.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2009-12-17 15:01:53 UTC
There seem to be a couple of issues here, for some reason the GetSessionsForUnixUser() call into consolekit times out. Reassigning to Consolekit.

Comment 2 Gilboa Davara 2010-06-05 15:00:08 UTC
I'm seeing the same issue under a freshly upgrade F13 machine (that was upgraded from F11 using a head-less preupgrade-cli --vnc).
I have no sound and no uses in the GDM user list.

Starting console-kit-daemon by hand using console-kit-daemon --debug --no-daemon seems to solves the problem.

- Gilboa

Comment 3 Gilboa Davara 2010-06-24 16:01:34 UTC
Juha,

I managed to locate and solve my problem. [1]
Maybe it'll solve your problem as well.

- Gilboa
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607715

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