GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 500498
rhythmbox locks up with PulseAudio
Last modified: 2007-11-29 22:15:47 UTC
I'm using Rhythmbox on Fedora 8, and it locks up about twice a day. Here's a stack trace of the last lock-up, with full debugging symbols installed:
+ Trace 180133
Thread 1 (Thread 46912496395136 (LWP 4300))
For what it's worth: * PulseAudio doesn't crash or lock up at the same time, that I know of. * Rhythmbox still responds to a SIGTERM, I don't have to SIGKILL it. * The icon appears in the system tray for a little while, but half of it is cut off. Eventually it disappears.
This is a bug in gst-pulse. Apparently you can't emit error messages from an audio sink reset method, because the base audio sink's state change function holds the object lock, and building the error message involves taking that same lock.