Bug 564390 - Alsa / pulseaudio results in hundreds of duplicate entries in sound preferences
Summary: Alsa / pulseaudio results in hundreds of duplicate entries in sound preferences
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pulseaudio
Version: 13
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-02-12 15:59 UTC by FC12-user
Modified: 2011-06-27 15:43 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-06-27 14:56:20 UTC
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Description FC12-user 2010-02-12 15:59:52 UTC
Description of problem:

I occasionally see an infinite list of duplicate entries of ALSA applications in the Sound Preference -> Applications tab.

This is pretty much always associated with pulseaudio sound playback stopping to work until pulseaudio is killed and restarted.

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

pulseaudio-0.9.21-4.fc12.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.21-2.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:

Happens once in a while when multiple applications play sound simultaneously. E.g. firefox playing some Youtube + pidgin audio event notification, or Thunderbird email notification + pidgin event, ...

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Mind your business on the computer
2. See that sound stops working
3. Look at Sound Preference -> Applications tab
4. See that there are hundreds of duplicate entries of the same app
  
Actual results:

- Hundreds of duplicate entries of the same app in the sound preferences
- Sounds usually stops working (or is about to)

Expected results:

- One entry per app
- Sound keeps working

Additional info: This problem was also reported in bug 559032, which got closed as WORKSFORME.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2010-02-16 02:10:46 UTC
Please provide the output of "pacmd ls" when this happens.

Comment 2 udo 2010-02-16 16:10:41 UTC
I see this happen as well when CPU goes over 100%: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565883

Comment 3 udo 2010-09-19 08:35:10 UTC
$ pacmd ls
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
$ ps -ef|grep puls
udo       4540     1  0 Aug18 ?        03:56:03 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
udo       4545  4540  0 Aug18 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
udo      31724  9561  0 10:34 pts/0    00:00:00 grep puls

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 22:14:18 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 12 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2011-06-02 16:35:56 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 13 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 13.  It is Fedora's policy to close all
bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained.  At that time
this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 
'version' of '13'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 13's end of life.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that 
we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 13 is end of life.  If you 
would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it 
against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this 
bug to the applicable version.  If you are unable to change the version, 
please add a comment here and someone will do it for you.

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lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events.  Often a 
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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 14:56:20 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 7 udo 2011-06-27 15:43:43 UTC
No response to the input...


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