On Thursday, 19 December 2019, 15:10:15 GMT, BorgLabs - Kate Draven <borglabs4@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 19 December 2019, alistair izzard via trinity-users wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 December 2019, 23:26:17 GMT, BorgLabs - Kate Draven
> <
borglabs4@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 18 December 2019, deloptes wrote:
> > E. Liddell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 02:02:33 -0500
> > > "BorgLabs - Kate Draven"
> > >
> > > <
borglabs4@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> A recent update seems to be causing amarok to crash when I attempt to
> > >> play a song. I get the usual signal 11 stuff of the gui. From the
> > >> commadline I get
> > >>
> > >> [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'amarokapp' crashing...
> > >> Invalid write to eventfd: Bad file descriptor
> > >> Code should not be reached at pulsecore/fdsem.c:199, function
> > >> pa_fdsem_post(). Aborting.
> > >> [kcrash] Unable to start Dr. Konqi
> > >>
> > >> Any idea as to what might be causing this? It's happening on all pclos
> > >> boxes.
> > >
> > > Well, the error message is bubbling up from pulseaudio, so either
> > > amaroK is
> > > passing it the wrong thing, or pulse has a bug. So, the first question
> > > is, do you
> > > actually need any functionality pulseaudio provides and alsa doesn't?
> > > If not, I would kill it—it's just one more thing that can go wrong on
> > > your system.
> >
> > look in the message
> > Invalid write to eventfd: Bad file descriptor - could be even something
> > outside PA.
> > And yes there is a lot that PA provides and ALSO does not.
> > No, it does not work wrong - especially the 12.2-4+deb10u1 is very good.
> >
> > > You might still want to file a bug against amaroK, though. If you do,
> > > it would be a good idea to include the exact version of pulseaudio
> > > that's causing the problem, and check with your distro to see if
> > > they're using any patches that might affect fdsem.c
> >
> > Most important is the way to reproduce.
> > I do not use amarok personally - my father does all the time - with PA.
> > Never complained so far.
> >
> >
> >
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> I think it's an amarok problem because it's the only program affected.
> I have amarok's engine as alsa. When I turn off pulseaudio amarok doesn't
> work regardless of the engine I choose.
>
> I installed Clementine and it works fine.
>
> Something happened to somewhere that only affects amarok.
>
> It may be a pclos exclusive problem.
>
> At this point, I'm lost.
>
> Kate
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> I'm having the same issue with Amarok, I don't know what has caused it, I
> have had too many updates to say which could have been the offending
> update. Just of note, if you are running "intel" graphics that use i915
> driver and 5.4.x kernel you may get some font corruption if still using GDM
> to login, easiest "fix" is to go to pcc >> boot, and change the display
> manager to TDM Alie
I have an ati and use tdm be default. All is good save for the amarok stuff.
Thanks Ali and Happy Christmas.
Kate
Merry Christmas Kate and a wonderful New Year, yeah I have no issues with ATI / NVidia :)