Bug 396303

Summary:	KDE4 Phonon Sound Crashing
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Adam Howarth <ahowarth>
Component:	KDE4 Workspace	Assignee:	Dirk Mueller <dmueller>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P1 - Urgent	CC:	b_kruse, wstephenson
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	My hwinfo

Description Adam Howarth 2008-06-02 08:48:00 UTC

I think this is a KDE4 problem. What happens is that system sounds play fine for awhile in the KDE4 desktop. Then after a period of desktop use, I loose systems sounds being played by KDE4. However, I am still able to play wav files so I think the sound system is still up itself.

When it fails I sometimes get a brief message overlayed on the top right section of my monitor that does not give me much time to read it before it goes - but it does say something about phonon and falling back on my Audigy 2 card.

I have tried going through various logs but did not find anything of relevance.

Comment 1 Adam Howarth 2008-06-02 08:49:52 UTC

Created attachment 219445 [details]
My hwinfo

Comment 2 Brandon Kruse 2008-06-04 15:51:46 UTC

I can confirm this bug, The message says the sound interface [insert your SC here] has failed, falling back to esound.

All my music, videos and Internet videos still produce sound, But I'm pretty sure I do lose system sounds....I can not confirm steps to reproduce as it seems random.

Comment 3 Adam Howarth 2008-06-06 03:35:52 UTC

An easy way to replicate this crash is to quickly cycle through the various desktops in the pager applet. This will always result in the phonon sound crash.

Comment 4 Adam Howarth 2008-06-10 04:17:36 UTC

Unfortunately this is occuring more often in RC2Plus AMD64 KDE. I am finding that 90% of the time on user login the login event sound causes the Phonon crash message to occur.

Comment 5 JP Rosevear 2008-07-03 19:46:26 UTC

Is pulseaudio running in your KDE4 session? ps ax | grep -i pulse

Comment 6 Brandon Kruse 2008-07-07 00:08:21 UTC

output:
 4977 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --log-target=syslog -Lmodule-esound-compat-spawnfd fd=51

Comment 7 Will Stephenson 2008-07-16 21:31:56 UTC

I can reproduce this when triggering many kopete brief notifications together.  No pulseaudio.

Comment 8 Dirk Mueller 2008-07-21 13:40:37 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 387406 ***