[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2018-08-21 Thread Theo Linkspfeifer
** Changed in: xfce4-volumed (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 Title: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2014-11-16 Thread Bug Watch Updater
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[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2011-02-26 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gstreamer Status: Unknown => Invalid ** Changed in: gstreamer Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 Title: xfce4-volumed takes

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-12-19 Thread Charlie Kravetz
** Changed in: gstreamer Importance: Undecided => Unknown ** Changed in: gstreamer Status: New => Unknown ** Changed in: gstreamer Remote watch: None => GNOME Bug Tracker #507527 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-10-03 Thread Alex Riesen
The Gnome/GStreamer bug is updated. There is a workaround (sadly, no good for long-running processes). GStreamer bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507527 -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You received this bug n

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-02-24 Thread Lionel Le Folgoc
** Also affects: gstreamer0.10 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-02-24 Thread Steve Dodier
The problem is linked to a GStreamer function doing nonsense when some devices are added or removed, so I'm adding GStreamer to the report, hopefully people who know it better than I can bring input about what's going on. ** Also affects: gstreamer Importance: Undecided Status: New --

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-02-24 Thread Kyle
Hi, I have found a use-case for this bug that I can repeat every single time. I have a USB webcam (Logitech C600). If I have the webcam plugged in when xfce4-mixer (and xfc4-volumed) starts, everything is fine. However, if I then unplug the webcam, both processes begin racing out of control. I remo

Re: [Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-01-10 Thread Steve Dodier
2010/1/9 cmeerw > Just one more observation: xfce4-volumed opens all mixers on startup, > then chooses to use only one, but it doesn't bother to close the other > mixers. This behaviour could be improved to avoid wasting resources > (btw, this would actually also fix the problem in some cases whe

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-01-09 Thread cmeerw
Just one more observation: xfce4-volumed opens all mixers on startup, then chooses to use only one, but it doesn't bother to close the other mixers. This behaviour could be improved to avoid wasting resources (btw, this would actually also fix the problem in some cases where the problem is triggere

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-01-09 Thread cmeerw
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507527 was initially raised for gnome-mixer, but has been moved to GStreamer (see comment 6) and is now raised against "Product: GStreamer, Component: gst-plugins-base" which is where the problem is (see comment 5). -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when s

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-01-09 Thread Charlie Kravetz
Has anyone tried removing gnome-mixer to see if that is the cause of this bug? I ask because Xubuntu does not install gnome-mixer by default. It does use xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed. If gnome-mixer is causing the issue, removing it should make the issue go away (as a WORKAROUND). Thanks for help

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-01-09 Thread cmeerw
Looks like this is essentially https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507527 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #507527 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507527 -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You receive

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-01-09 Thread cmeerw
I am seeing 3 threads for the xfce4-volumed process, 2 of the threads appear to be related to gstreamer (maybe one for each sound device/mixer) and one of these threads is spinning when I unplug my USB headset, stacktrace for that thread is: #0 0x735063c3 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1

Re: [Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-01-09 Thread Steve Dodier
Thanks Charlie. This shows the problem is more likely to be in Gstreamer than XFCE directly as it happens with two different components (xfce4-mixer-plugin and xfce4-volumed). -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You received thi

Re: [Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-01-09 Thread Steve Dodier
I wish you could send me some GDB backtraces to see where it's hanging exactly. I've still not been able to trigger the bug on my computers. Thanks in advance. -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-01-09 Thread Charlie Kravetz
** Bug watch added: Xfce Bugzilla #5183 http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5183 ** Also affects: xfce4-mixer via http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5183 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2010-01-09 Thread cmeerw
This bug also affects me on Karmic and it's very easy to reproduce: I have a USB headset connected to my machine and whenever I unplug the USB headset xfce4-volumed (and xfce4-mixer-plugin) use up 100% CPU. I hope to be able to do some debugging later on... -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when s

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-11-29 Thread linuxgeoff
FWIW, I can confirm this bug on Xubuntu on Karmic. (never saw it before I upgraded from Hardy). For me, it's after a suspend / resume cycle. I just kill the process and get on with life. I guess I'll go the remove option since I don't use the keyboard volume control anyway -- xfce4-volumed tak

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-11-20 Thread Charlie Kravetz
** Changed in: xfce4-volumed (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Description changed: I guess this is not a bug directly in xfce4-volumed, but somewhere else, but so far I don't know yet what happens exactly. Every time when my system is idle for some time and the display goes into

Re: [Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-11-18 Thread mavior
> Removing the package removed all the symptoms of the bug and didn't > introduce any further problems. > > It was a very effective fix from my point of view. > > I realise there's probably a more elegant fix, but I also realise we're > unlikely to see it any time soon. > Well removing softwar

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Moore
Removing the package removed all the symptoms of the bug and didn't introduce any further problems. It was a very effective fix from my point of view. I realise there's probably a more elegant fix, but I also realise we're unlikely to see it any time soon. -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when s

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-11-18 Thread mavior
Description: Volume management daemon for Xfce 4 Xfce4-volumed is responsible for making the volume up/down and mute keys of the keyboard work automatically, and uses the Xfce 4 mixer's defined card and track for chosing which track to act on. It also provides volume change / mute toggle notifi

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-11-17 Thread Chris Moore
I never suspend or resume, and I see the same bug. I've not seen the bug since running: sudo apt-get remove xfce4-volumed I don't know what the package is for, but I've not missed it. -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-11-13 Thread mavior
I can confirm this very annoying bug on latest xubuntu. I didn't find a regular pattern, but I noticed it happens after some suspend/resume cycles. -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You received this bug notification because

Re: [Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-30 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Friday 30 October 2009, Steve Dodier wrote: > Alright, the trace confirms what I thought: xfce4-volumed is idling in the > main loop, and either gstreamer or pulseaudio is doing some nonsense. I > don't know how to debug such problems in GStreamer or Pulseaudio, I'll look > at this in a few days

Re: [Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-30 Thread Steve Dodier
Alright, the trace confirms what I thought: xfce4-volumed is idling in the main loop, and either gstreamer or pulseaudio is doing some nonsense. I don't know how to debug such problems in GStreamer or Pulseaudio, I'll look at this in a few days when I have some time to ask advice about how to proce

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Moore
I just noticed there are multiple threads: (gdb) thread apply all bt Thread 7 (Thread 0xac9deb70 (LWP 14896)): #0 0xb7fe2430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7434ba6 in poll () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb6c8ccc2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpulse.so.0 #3 0xb6c79e09 in pa_mainloop_poll

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Moore
I'll leave the gdb running in case there's something I can do to coax more information out of it. Feel free to talk to me on jabber (doog...@jabber.org) if that would speed things up. -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You rec

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Moore
Thanks for the instructions, I built it as you said, the only difference being I did it in my home directory so it would survive a reboot, but the backtrace is still useless: Reading symbols from /home/chris/Programs/xfce4-volumed/0.1.6/src/xfce4-volumed...done. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/

Re: [Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-30 Thread Steve Dodier
Yeah sorry, I forgot the name changed in Karmic. You shall not need build-essential, however. 2009/10/30, Chris Moore : > Package libxcb-keysyms0-dev is not available, but is referred to by another > package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available f

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Moore
Package libxcb-keysyms0-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it: libxcb-keysyms1-dev So I'll try using that instead... -- xfce

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-30 Thread Pasi Lallinaho
In addition to the packages Steve pointed to, you of course also need build-essential to be able to build packages in the first place. -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You received this bug notification because you are a memb

Re: [Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-30 Thread Steve Dodier
Hi there, Here is a set of instructions that should just work (the apt-get install should install everything you'll need to build the application): sudo apt-get install autotools-dev autoconf libtool libnotify-dev libxfconf-0-dev libxcb-keysyms0-dev libglib2.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-de

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-29 Thread Chris Moore
I don't often build packages from source, whether from "apt-get source" or from "bzr". What's the incantation I need to specify to get the -g flag to be passed to the compiler? And is it better to arrange for -O2 not to be used too? If so, how? -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is id

Re: [Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-29 Thread Steve Dodier
Hello, You can use the package source if you want, no worries. For some unknown reasons, autotools decided to play a trick on me so --enable-debug isn't auto-complemented, but it does work, and it will build xfce4-volumed with the -g option that will enable GDB to give us human-readable informatio

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-29 Thread Chris Moore
I went ahead and tried to use bzr to check it out, but couldn't see how to pass the --enable-debug flag. Should I be using bzr-buildpackage? What are the magic words? -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You received this bug n

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-29 Thread Chris Moore
Hi Steve. Unfortunately I didn't notice you had replied. I just had xfce4-volumed go crazy on me again and was going to ask here what I can do to help debug it. It's running as I type, so if there is anything I can with the non-bzr non-debug copy while it's going crazy, I will do so. Are you su

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-27 Thread Steve Dodier
Hi there and thanks for the additional info, Unfortunately there is still nothing I can use to identify and fix the bug. Chris, could you please get xfce4-volumed from bzr and build and install it with --enable-debug, and then attach a gdb trace as soon as it takes 100% CPU again? I would at least

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Moore
Judging by the process' use of CPU time compared to the machine's uptime, it seems that this wasn't a result of the machine being idle, especially given that the process was frozen in gdb for some time before I ran 'uptime': ch...@chris-laptop:~$ ps -ef | grep xfce4-v chris 2541 1 97 05:00

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Moore
I left my laptop on overnight. Usually it's very quiet, but I just noticed the fan was running loud. I checked with 'top' and saw that one of the CPU cores was pegged at 100% CPU. The xfce4-volumed process was responsible. gdb shows me: (gdb) where #0 0xb78c5430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x

Re: [Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-03 Thread Steve Dodier
Thanks for your answer, Bernd. I'll leave this bug open and incomplete until someone reports a similar problem. -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-03 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello Steve, sorry for my terribly late reply. I never had the time to debug this. I'm also not sure if debugging it this way would have helped at all. Problem is that it only happened with the automatically started volumed. Or at least once it crashed and I killed and restarted it, it never came

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-10-03 Thread Steve Dodier
** Changed in: xfce4-volumed (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: xfce4-volumed (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Steve Dodier (sidi) -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You received this bug notificat

[Bug 417778] Re: xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Dodier
This looks like a problem in GStreamer to me. Could you please get the bzr trunk (lp:xfce4-volumed), build it with debug support (./configure --with-debug) and then run it in gdb (gdb ./src/xfce4-volumed) ? Then, just interrupt it (Ctrl+C in gdb) when it is using 100% CPU, and type 'bt' in gdb, an