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pulseaudio package

Latest inotify patch causes 100% CPU

Bug #1170313 reported by David Henningsson
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This bug affects 25 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
David Henningsson

Bug Description

The patch for bug 1167192 was not working correctly. When the pid file was accessed by some software, PulseAudio got stuck in a 100% CPU loop on one core.

David Henningsson (diwic)
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → David Henningsson (diwic)
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Pedro Nunes (nunes-p89) wrote :

Happens to mee too...

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David Henningsson (diwic) wrote :

Fix uploaded. If you can't wait, there is a fixed version in ppa:diwic/pulseaudio-testing.

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Travis Knight (dick-swift00) wrote :

Fix resolved my issue; produced no obvious new issues - cheers!

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AlbertH (alberthilbert) wrote :

Fix solved my issue too. Thanks...

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:3.0-0ubuntu6

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pulseaudio (1:3.0-0ubuntu6) raring; urgency=low

  * 0022-inotify-wrapper-Quit-daemon-if-pid-file-is-removed.patch:
    Fix patch not to cause 100% CPU (LP: #1170313)
 -- David Henningsson <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:24:16 +0200

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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vmagnin (vincent-magnin) wrote :

Problem solved after apt-get update

Note that I was obliged to kill the previous pulseaudio:
pulseaudio --kill

Thank you.

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Atlantic777 (nikola.hardi) wrote :

I'm using ubuntu 13.04 and pulseaudio (1:3.0-0ubuntu6) and I have this issue.

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Alex (d-f0rce) wrote :

Same issue here with 14.04.

When skype launches on system startup it makes pulseaudio get stuck in a 100% cpu loop. Restarting Skype helps.

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