Bug#649641: Bug #649641: pulseaudio mutex issue on Alpha architecture

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Cree
On 5/11/2012, at 5:59 AM, Sjoerd Simons wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 01:46:27PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: Other hints that this is a kernel problem introduced somewhere between 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 is that the eglibc test suite passes on 2.6.38 and older kernels, but fails on 2.6.39 and newer

Bug#649641: Bug #649641: pulseaudio mutex issue on Alpha architecture

2012-11-04 Thread Sjoerd Simons
close 649641 thanks, On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 09:02 +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On 5/11/2012, at 5:59 AM, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > It is now fixed in the kernel; commit 62aca403657fe upstream. It was > a problem with futexes. Great thanks, closing this bug :) -- Sjoerd Simons -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#649641: Bug #649641: pulseaudio mutex issue on Alpha architecture

2012-11-04 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 01:46:27PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > Other hints that this is a kernel problem introduced somewhere between > 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 is that the eglibc test suite passes on 2.6.38 and > older kernels, but fails on 2.6.39 and newer kernels with failures in > mutex related tests

Bug#649641: Bug #649641: pulseaudio mutex issue on Alpha architecture

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Cree
The pulseaudio problem on Alpha is worse than just causing a crash in iceweasel---pulseaudio cannot auto-detect audio cards via the udev mechanism. I have a number of audio cards (HDA-intel on a newer Radeon graphics card, and M-Audio Revolution 5.1) in my Alpha XP1000 but these are not detected d

Bug#649641: pulseaudio mutex issue on Alpha architecture

2011-11-23 Thread Bob Tracy
Verified that the previously-mentioned workaround is applicable to Alpha, and that it works: no more mutex failures. The specific implementation of the workaround for the 1.1-1 source package is to patch "m4/ax_pthread.m4" line 266ff to read as follows: AC_CACHE_CHECK([for PTHREAD_PRIO_IN

Bug#649641: pulseaudio mutex issue on Alpha architecture

2011-11-22 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: pulseaudio Version: 1.1-1 Severity: important Iceweasel and firefox browsers crash with the following error: Assertion 'pthread_mutex_unlock(&m->mutex) == 0' failed at pulsecore/mutex-posix.c:106, function pa_mutex_unlock(). Aborting. Always reproducible by starting either firefox or i