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.

Alie