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eglibc package

audio unreliable with eglibc 2.15

Bug #929713 reported by Steve Langasek
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
eglibc (Fedora)
Fix Released
Undecided
eglibc (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Matthias Klose
Ubuntu ubuntu-12.04-beta-1
Precise
Fix Released
Critical
Matthias Klose
Ubuntu ubuntu-12.04-beta-1

Bug Description

Audio is completely unreliable after upgrade to eglibc 2.15.

- Google+ hangouts, which use the google-talkplugin package from http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/, initially have audio working, but within a minute or so the audio cuts out (in both directions). This plugin uses pulseaudio via dlopen() of libpulse.so.0.
- Skype, from the oneiric partner archive, exhibits similar behavior: audio is bidirectional when the call is established, then after a minute or so the input cuts out (despite pulseaudio's volume meter showing that audio is still being picked up from the mic)
- Quodlibet (pulse-enabled media app implemented in python) plays music fine until it suddenly stops after a random period of time. In my latest test, the current track has stopped at 4:59 into the song. The UI still responds fine and if I select a different song to play, playback resumes.

The G+ regression has been reported by several other people on IRC.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libc6 2.15-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-14.23-generic 3.2.3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 017452a27eca3c8b498abbfa5ef91db9
CheckboxSystem: ecaaad6fa1e0799a0aa1126bf620f39e
Date: Thu Feb 9 10:22:42 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eglibc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (92 days ago)

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/precise/eglibc
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In , Valdis (valdis-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Description of problem:
After installing 2.14.89025, I was seeing lots of weird issues - programs trying to talk to pulseaudio would hang, firefox was wedged and flickering the X cursor between 2 different cursors, some other weird stuff.

Caught this in gdb of /usr/bin/pidgin hung during startup:

(gdb) c
Continuing.
^C
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_cond_wait.S:145
145 movl $1, %r8d
(gdb) where
#0 pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_cond_wait.S:145
#1 0x00007f8d189f7740 in pa_threaded_mainloop_wait (m=0x7f8d1c27d650) at pulse/thread-mainloop.c:206
#2 0x00007f8d18c16cbc in ?? () from /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpulse.so
#3 0x00007f8d18c180aa in ?? () from /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpulse.so
#4 0x00000034bbc070f1 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0
#5 0x00000034bbc09cc0 in gst_ring_buffer_pause () from /usr/lib64/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0
#6 0x00000034bbc12c8a in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0
#7 0x00007f8d18c195a9 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpulse.so
#8 0x00000034b8c41d4c in gst_element_change_state () from /usr/lib64/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0

Reverting to 2.14.90-23 and everything started working normally again - pidgin, pulseaudio, firefox, etc.

Am willing to add instrumentation and re-test if somebody tells me what they want tried.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.14.90-25.fc17

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In , Kazuro (kazuro-redhat-bugs) wrote :

I had similar weird behaviors of applications in F16 (x86_64) after I installed glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.3. I googled and found (in Bug#651899 in Debian) my problem might be related to glibc-rh552960.patch had been introduced in 2.14.90-24.fc16.x. I locally build glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.3 without the patch then everything have been working fine for two days. I found the patch has been merged into glibc-2.14.90-25.fc17 tarball.

Regards,

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In , Valdis (valdis-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Kazuro: Thank you for digging further into this, and confirming I'm not crazy (or at least, not hallucinating this particular bug ;)

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In , Valdis (valdis-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Got around to testing 2.14.90-26, which contained this:

  - Revert "fix" to pthread_cond_wait (#769421)

and it does appear to be working correctly on my box again. Thanks..

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In , Jeff (jeff-redhat-bugs) wrote :

*** Bug 769600 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Jeff (jeff-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Should be fixed by either 2.15-1.fc17 or 2.14.90-26.fc17 (both revert the problematical pthread_cond_wait patch).

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :
Changed in eglibc (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Matthias Klose (doko)
tags: added: rls-mgr-p-tracking rls-p-tracking
Changed in eglibc (Ubuntu Precise):
milestone: none → ubuntu-12.04-beta-1
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

Same issue here on Precise i386 +nvidia + gnome-classic (compiz/unity/GS purged)

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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

Happens with radiotray: hangs after a few seconds, nothing logged

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/glibc&id=ead7c0f93b194f6e3a100f249edd76c826debaef has a patch purporting to address various hangs, referencing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769421 which mentions pulseaudio problems.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package eglibc - 2.15-0ubuntu2

---------------
eglibc (2.15-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * Revert commit c5a0802a. LP: #929713.
  * Fix nvidia libgl crashes. LP: #929384.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:33:14 +0100

Changed in eglibc (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote :

One aspect is still not fixed:

PulseAudio fails at finding remote sinks and yet Avahi is working as expected at both ends. This was working fine before the libc6 upgrade to 2.15.

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Are you sure this wasn't caused by the pulse upgrade in the same time frame? Regardless, please file a separate bug report for the issue as that's unrelated to pthread-induced hangs in libpulse.

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In , Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs) wrote :

glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.5

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in eglibc (Fedora):
importance: Unknown → Undecided
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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