Public bug reported: pulseaudio hangs during start of a couple of medion pcs in our lab. We are running ltsp on all ws but the error exists on natively installed ubuntu as well. Natty was able to play spound without a hang on this hardware. This - most probably I guess - has something to do with the hdmi-sound card on board(?) , because pulseaudio hangs in all newer versions of ubuntu after Natty.
Unfortunately every sound related program like e.g. the firefox starts waiting in a gray inactive window also, as soon as a sound appears to be played in it. So due to this fact these wss revealed to be unusable. Important information about the hardware caught by alsa, alsamixer (with recognized onboard sound cards), asound modules, lshw and lspci could be found at http://servmin.homelinux.org/7SGopYpVf1jS7DIZJ4i25743S8 . . . We created a workaround that circuits around the effect and avoids the error for people who run into the same problem (also usable in <ltsp.conf> as a ltsp-start-script for a particular ws): --- begin #!/bin/bash ########################################################################################## # bootscript for ltsp-clients on medion-pcs with different follow up # of sound-cards and pulse-audio sound manager being switched off ########################################################################################## . /etc/profile echo autospawn=no >>/etc/pulse/client.conf echo defaults.pcm.card 1 >> /etc/asound.conf echo defaults.pcm.device 0 >> /etc/asound.conf echo defaults.ctl.card 1 >> /etc/asound.conf alsa reload --- end it works on all the effected wss. We waited for an update to solve the problem but the fact that all newer versions cannot handle this hardware lets us file this bug finally. Thank You for Your attention :) ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1212592 Title: hang of pulseaudio on medion pc To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1212592/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
