On 12/8/21, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <bg271...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I wonder if there might be any other thoughts on this (aside from that of > replacing Pulseaudio with its successor, which I'm not comfortable with)? > > The flakiness is particularly worrying--that only certain applications will > crash with it.
Hi, Jennifer, I just went through a weird crash myself a few days ago. I didn't do a good job of documenting, either. As fast as I'd click an icon to open xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin for volume control, the GUI window would snap back closed. As best as I can tell, mine began IMMEDIATELY after optional package, alsamixergui, was upgraded. I deleted that package and haven't had another instance since. Prior to deleting alsamixergui, I also tried purging ANYTHING related to pulseaudio (and eventually anything "pavu") then reinstalling. That still failed every time. Sorry I don't have more other than to say maybe figure out the package name involved in your instance and try opening it in a terminal. Mine did spew out a few things while it was also snapping back shut going that route, too. Afterthought: Just remembered to check my websurfing history. This was one error message I was receiving: Failed to load module "module-native-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: D-Bus name org.pulseaudio.Server already taken. This was one of the sites I visited that seemed worth saving just because pipewire is beginning to received online mentions lately: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/793 In the end, my thought process went to the "what upgraded just before this occurred" place. That's when deleting alsamixergui became the thing to do. That alsamixergui package had just been upgraded maybe an hour before my instance's erratic behavior began (too). May be a coincidence that pulseaudio's GUI started working again after alsamixergui's deletion. Then again, might be that alsamixergui's upgrade changed something important.. or triggered a conflict. Who knows. :) As a related aside that includes an "ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK" disclaimer: I ended up test driving "pasystray" while purging and reinstalling things "pavu". It's a little bit hefty looking and might be of interest to curious sorts wanting to delve a little deeper into their systems. Be aware that it might be possible to kill your system's sound capabilities if your system offers a lot of choices instead of just one and you're not sure about what you're doing. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
