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Jorenko
April 28th, 2009, 07:31 PM
Ever since upgrading to jaunty, I am getting the following backtrace from both TF2 and L4D after anywhere from 5-15 minutes of play.

E: memblock.c: Assertion 'b' failed at pulsecore/memblock.c:438, function pa_memblock_acquire(). Aborting.
wine: Assertion failed at address 0xf7f8c425 (thread 0065), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: assertion failed in 32-bit code (0xf7f8c425).
Register dump:
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
EIP:f7f8c425 ESP:392fe690 EBP:0000617a EFLAGS:00000202( - 00 - - I1)
EAX:00000000 EBX:00006152 ECX:0000617a EDX:00000006
ESI:6ed1b5f0 EDI:f7df1ff4
Stack dump:
0x392fe690: 392fe6a0 f7cbe9a0 f7df1ff4 392fe7c0
0x392fe6a0: 392fe7c8 f7cc0368 00000006 392fe740
0x392fe6b0: 00000000 7cc2e790 392fe6f8 7cc36fb4
0x392fe6c0: 7cc493c8 6695a010 7ffbc000 7cc36da1
0x392fe6d0: 00000000 392fe810 392fe7b8 00000073
0x392fe6e0: 00b76eb4 626d656d 6b636f6c 203a632e
Backtrace:
=>0 0xf7f8c425 (0x0000617a)
1 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
0xf7f8c425: movl $0x2b,%ecx


Lots of searching reveals that the wine guys won't touch your problem unless you've got pulseaudio disabled, and it seems to be implicated by the backtrace I'm getting too. So, I set out to disable it.

However, no matter how much I try, it won't stay disabled. `killall pulseaudio`, `pulseaudio -k`, No matter what I try, I confirm that it's gone, run the game, have it crash again, and when I check it's running again!

Has anyone else had this problem, or does anyone know of a way to actually disable pulse temporarily?
cogadh
April 28th, 2009, 08:39 PM
Run it with "pasuspend" like this:
pasuspend wine foo.exe
Jorenko
April 30th, 2009, 09:32 PM
Nope, pasupender doesn't change the behavior one bit.
hikaricore
May 1st, 2009, 04:02 AM
Then likely pulse isn't causing it.
Have you tried actually killing pulseaudio first?
atfrase
May 4th, 2009, 10:31 PM
Such are the wonders of PulseAudio and Wine, which have never worked well together. Starting a year ago when 8.04 switched to PA, people started reporting problems like this one; despite numerous bug reports full of comments from annoyed users, the developers on both sides continue to blame each other and nothing gets fixed.
YokoZar
May 5th, 2009, 02:52 AM
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367379
Emanuele_Z
May 18th, 2009, 11:31 AM
Actually is Pulseaudio's fault.
Compared to 8.10, PA is way better now, but again this
http://appdb.winehq.org/commentview.php?iAppId=1922&iVersionId=14154&iThreadId=48364
is a report on what happens with PA and wine (WoW this time).

Why does Ubuntu started to include this solution as default when is clearly not in a release status?
cogadh
May 18th, 2009, 12:19 PM
Ubuntu wasn't the only one, I believe Fedora went to Pulse around the same time, not sure about any other distros though. I've been asking why Ubuntu went with Pulse since they started with it (8.04? 8.10?), but I've never got a straight answer.
Emanuele_Z
May 19th, 2009, 04:07 AM
Ubuntu wasn't the only one, I believe Fedora went to Pulse around the same time, not sure about any other distros though. I've been asking why Ubuntu went with Pulse since they started with it (8.04? 8.10?), but I've never got a straight answer.

Indeed, that's the problem...
What is the reason behind switching to PA?
ALSA is working great for 95% of users.
Now, people that want enhanced audio can install PA themselves...or am I wrong?

Really, what is the reason behind switching to PA?

Cheers,
hikaricore
May 19th, 2009, 08:54 PM
Indeed, that's the problem...
What is the reason behind switching to PA?
ALSA is working great for 95% of users.
Now, people that want enhanced audio can install PA themselves...or am I wrong?

Really, what is the reason behind switching to PA?

Cheers,


So... screw the other 5% of us? Thanks.
cogadh
May 19th, 2009, 11:50 PM
Damn 5%, ruining it for the rest of us!:p
Devilman13
May 21st, 2009, 10:36 AM
So... screw the other 5% of us? Thanks.

Basically, yeah. LOL Pulseaudio is teh suck.
alex.rayu
May 21st, 2009, 11:56 AM
It has been lasting for so long now that it should be for everyone who just installs/updates Ubuntu like the first thing you do is to brush your teeth in the morning:

$ sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
PacketCollision
July 27th, 2009, 07:21 PM
I solved the problem in CIV4 at least by simply editing /etc/pulse/client.conf and setting "disable-shm = yes" instead of "disable-shm = no".

running:
killall pulseaudio && start-pulseaudio-x11
should activate the changes.