Description of problem: Installed the latest pulseaudio updates (0.9.21-4.fc12.i686) with other updates. Rebooted and logged in. Ran Thunderbird for mail. New mail sound (a .wav file) plays about .1 second and then pulseaudio goes to 100% CPU utilization. Playing the .wav in VLC or mplayer doesn't cause an issue nor does any other sound that I've tried. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.9.21-4.fc12.i686 How reproducible: Always when playing new mail sound in T'bird. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run Thunderbird 2.Check mail 3.New mail causes sound to play and CPU to go to 100% till pulseaudio is killed Actual results: pulseaudio uses 100% CPU Expected results: low utilization Additional info: Backdating pulseaudio to 0.9.19-2.fc12.i686 cures problem
Is there any output in syslog from PA? Please attach.
Absolutely nothing noted until pulseaudio restarts after having been killed: Jan 28 08:18:27 toshiba rtkit-daemon[1838]: Sucessfully made thread 2678 of process 2678 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba rtkit-daemon[1838]: Sucessfully made thread 2694 of process 2678 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority 5. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba rtkit-daemon[1838]: Sucessfully made thread 2695 of process 2678 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority 5. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba rtkit-daemon[1838]: Sucessfully made thread 2697 of process 2697 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba pulseaudio[2697]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba rtkit-daemon[1838]: Sucessfully made thread 2698 of process 2698 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba pulseaudio[2698]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba rtkit-daemon[1838]: Sucessfully made thread 2699 of process 2699 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba pulseaudio[2699]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba rtkit-daemon[1838]: Sucessfully made thread 2700 of process 2700 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba pulseaudio[2700]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba rtkit-daemon[1838]: Sucessfully made thread 2701 of process 2701 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba pulseaudio[2701]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba rtkit-daemon[1838]: Sucessfully made thread 2702 of process 2702 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 28 08:18:28 toshiba pulseaudio[2702]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
I experience the exact same problem since the last pulseaudio update.
Same here -- same PA version & (mis-)behavior, and nothing to note in syslog.
I can confirm the same behavior on x86_64. Totally up to date F12.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 559467 ***