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Bug#569284: kmix: Fail to work on LTSP thin clients using PulseAudio



Hello,

On sekmadienis 30 Gegužė 2010 14:44:54 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Sune put me in contact with Colin Guthrie, who is working on a kmix
> patch for pulseaudio.  Sune provided me with a kdemultimedia test
> package with such patch included, and I tested running it via a thin
> client, and it caused kmix to segfault.  The thin client have ESD,
> ALSA via pulseaudio and pulseaudio enabled.  I've forgotten the URL to
> Sunes test packages, but have asked him to submit the URL to BTS.
> 
> When running the same kmix version locally on the server, where ESD is
> not enabled and the alsa devices are local, kmix only showed a dummy
> output control instead of the local audio device.
> 
> I lack contact with the test setup right now, so I can't test any
> more.  Colin asked for this input:
> 
>   1. Get a backtrace for the crash - preferably with an updated patch
>      from the above if it fits.
>   2. On the dummy machine, try and get some info as to what is hogging
>      the device nodes or if check if there is a permissions problem on
>      the sound devices themselves.
> 
> Details about 2) can be found on <URL: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE >
> (basically lsof/fuser/getfacl results).
> 
> The latest version of the pulseaudio patch is available using this
> recipe:
> 
>   git clone git://colin.guthr.ie/kdemultimedia
>   cd kdemultimedia;
>   git checkout -t origin/pulse-4.4.4
>   git diff master..pulse-4.4.4 > mypatch.patch
> 
> Colin said it *should* apply cleanly on top of 4.4 branch of KDE and
> hopefully the 4.4.4 source tarball.

So I failed to understand if the patch solves your bug or not and if we should 
ship it.

-- 
Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>

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