On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:10:19 -0500
Doug <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> wrote:
On 11/22/2017 05:36 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> pulseaudio became unusable on F26 with the upgrade to vers 11.1.2 a
> few weeks ago. It rapidly filled the log files with trash - and
> produced no sound.
> By using dnf downgrade "*pulseaudio*" I was able to restore
> sanity.
>
> Yesterday I freshly installed Fedora 27 Live Xfce on an Acer laptop.
> Today, /var/log/messages had grown to
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 14787172 Nov 22 15:47 messages
> These 15 MB contain recurring lines like this:
>
> Nov 22 11:22:18 datacer rtkit-daemon[4896]: Successfully made
> thread 16113 of pr
> ocess 16113 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by 'dad' high priority at
> nice level -11
> .
> Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer rtkit-daemon[4896]: Successfully made
> thread 16116 of process 16113 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by 'dad'
> RT at priority 5.
> Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer rtkit-daemon[4896]: Successfully made
> thread 16121 of process 16113 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by 'dad'
> RT at priority 5.
> Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer pulseaudio[16113]: [pulseaudio]
> socket-server.c: bind(): Address already in use
> Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer pulseaudio[16113]: [pulseaudio] module.c:
> Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument:
""):
> initialization failed.
> Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer pulseaudio[16113]: [pulseaudio] main.c:
> Module load failed.
> Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer pulseaudio[16113]: [pulseaudio] main.c:
> Failed to initialize daemon.
> Nov 22 11:22:19 datacer pulseaudio[16110]: [pulseaudio] main.c:
> Daemon startup failed.
>
> which repeat every 5 seconds, and will rapidly destroy my system.
>
> I've fought with this miserable pulseaudio creation for several
> years, trying to get sound to work *properly*, but this is the
> last straw.
>
> Today I held an exorcism and have slain the damned thing:
> dnf remove pulseaudio
> which, amazingly, took out 34 packages.
>
> Sound now works perfectly - just the way it should.
> I cannot discern any important loss of function from the deleted 34
> packages so far. aplay, vlc, xmms, mythfrontend and even
> skypeforlinux all work fine with alsa.
>
> pulseaudio should just go away!
>
>
Can you now play a video thru your computer and monitor and local
sound speakers and at the same time send an htmi signal to your TV
set that includes cideo and sound?
[ ... ]
... and I could give even more examples of how easily a working audio
setup with different audio hardware setups is done here on an F26 system
with pulseaudio. It just works here. I simply hope that the makers of
the system are careful before applying permanent changes to that
software.
pulseaudio here:
pulseaudio.x86_64 11.1-6.fc26
$ pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 11.1-rebootstrapped
uname -a
Linux aw17 4.13.9-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 23 13:52:45 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
GNU/Linux
fuser -v /dev/snd/*
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: [ .... ] 6394 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1: [ .... ] 6394 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC2: [ .... ] 6394 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/pcmC1D0p: [ .... ] 6394 F...m pulseaudio
lspci | grep -i audio
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio
Controller (rev 05)
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI
Audio [Radeon HD 7700/7800 Series]
There are a few things here that do not not behave on the F26
system - pulseaudio doesn't seem to be part of that team ....
Regards
Wolfgang