[Mageia-dev] Video/X/GL/gnome-shell issues?

[Olivier Blin]

Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:35:44PM +0200, Olivier Blin wrote:
>> gdb --pid can be used to get a stack trace then
>
> gnome-shell:
>
> The hang is in thread 1. Hangs in glibc, with Pulseaudio calling it.
> Seems exactly like the mplayer issue. I've seen this hang before
> Pulseaudio 2.1.
>
> Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f975cfe8900 (LWP 2367)):
> #0  pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_cond_wait.S:144
> #1  0x00007f97558a4aa0 in pa_threaded_mainloop_wait (m=0x21bdf00) at pulse/thread-mainloop.c:206
> #2 0x00007f97460aaa0b in pulse_driver_play (c=0x21b5280, id=<optimized
> out>, proplist=0x704c9c0, cb=<optimized out>, userdata=<optimized
> out>) at pulse.c:1085
> #3 0x00007f975955624e in ca_context_play_full (c=c at entry=0x21b5280,
> id=id at entry=1, p=0x704c9c0, cb=cb at entry=0x0,
> userdata=userdata at entry=0x0) at common.c:522
> #4  0x00007f97595565cf in ca_context_play (c=0x21b5280, id=1) at common.c:462

(huge backtrace snipped)

This looks exactly like this Debian bug, which was caused by a
pthread_cond_wait patch in glibc:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651746

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Olivier Blin - blino