GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 655451
pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated
Last modified: 2012-01-24 02:15:15 UTC
Lenovo T61p laptop, Fedora 14, Kernel Linux 2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686PAE. Playing ogg files (ones ripped from my CD collection with various Brasero versions) through the internal speakers works reliably. A Bose Companion 5, a USB speaker system, produces no sound and crashes with the message "pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated" in Totem 2.32.0. Oddly, if I use the Totem Movie->1 and select the same selection plays with no issues. And now I cannot get it to fail with any ogg files, even if I stop and restart Totem. If I kill pulseaudio, and restart Totem, I get the same message. After it fails, I can start it playing properly by selecting the entry from the Movie -> 1 history entry. Stopping and restarting Totem does not work this time. However, after it fails, without restarting Totem, I can again play. It is like the two methods of selecting a piece do not initialize something the same way, properly, or completely.
What's the output of gst-inspect-0.10 pulsesink | grep Version and pulseaudio --version ? Have you tried with a newer Fedora version? I think this issue was fixed some time ago.
Mark, can you please respond to comment#1 ?
This does not work on Fedora 14: gst-inspect-0.10 pulsesink | grep Version Version: 0.10.26 pulseaudio 0.9.21 This does work on Fedora 12: gst-inspect-0.10 pulsesink | grep Version Version: 0.10.23 pulseaudio 0.9.21 I attempted to get the Bose USB Companion 5 to play on Fedora 15 booted to a passport drive on the same ThinkPad. It found the hardware, I selected it, but it would not produce sound in any of the four speakers nor the subwoofer. So, I have another issue to work out prior to that. That was disappointing, but good to know before upgrading to Fedora 15 on the laptop. gst-inspect-0.10 pulsesink | grep Version Version: 0.10.29 pulseaudio 0.9.22 Would you recommend that I upgrade the gst and pulseaudio on Fedora 14, or might there be some compatibility issues?
Upgrading Fedora to the current release produced no improvement. Various configuration changes also did not help. Backing up /home, a separate partition, and doing a clean install of the current Fedora made things work. I will say that for the only easy-to-get-to shutdown option, suspend, Fedora only finds the sound system about half the time when it returns from suspend. It works 100 percent from a cold boot, although I sometimes need to configure sound to use it over the internal sound option. However, checking now, the T61p has started emitting 1 long beep followed by two short beeps, so I think I have succumbed to the nVidia overheating problems and the extended 4 year warrantee for additional $ expired last month. So, I suspect I will end up putting this machine to rest, even though it returned from a maintenance trip to repair before the warranty expired in November and it was pronounced "healthy". Such an ephemeral state, health.
Problem was fixed in latest Fedora, so closing. Sorry to hear about the laptop. Sounds like the impending future of my T60.