FS#46289 - [libpulse] Causes delay in zathura and virtualbox to not start

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee) - Monday, 14 September 2015, 04:58 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Monday, 21 September 2015, 14:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Sorry, I know this bug report sounds crazy, but on my latest [testing] update I observed the following:-
1. Opening PDFs with zathura would result in a blank window. After some testing, I found that okular worked, and that zathura would work if run 5 minutes later (only if okular was first used).
2. Virtualbox would start an existing Win10 VM and then immediately crash with an 'unknown error' (that's what it reports).

I downgraded and started testing various package upgrades, I've narrowed it down to an upgrade in libpulse, pulseaudio, and related (full list below). This sounds crazy to me (at least for point 1, I can see how virtualbox and pulse would be related), and I'm reporting it here for further investigation.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
libpulse 6.99.2-1
pulseaudio 6.99.2-1
pulseaudio-bluetooth 6.99.2-1
pulseaudio-equalizer 6.99.2-1
pulseaudio-gconf 6.99.2-1
pulseaudio-jack 6.99.2-1
* config and/or log files etc.
No change

Steps to reproduce:
Upgrade and try opening a PDF or to start VB.

Additional notes:- I'm fully up-to-date except for the kernel, linux-headers, and related modules, as I'm experiencing an upstream BT bug as well. This should not be related.
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Monday, 21 September 2015, 14:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee) - Monday, 21 September 2015, 01:49 GMT
Update, issue 1 no longer appears, but issue 2 still happens. After some more testing I've found that the pulseaudio server doesn't even start. I have two pulseaudio -vvvv outputs, one working and one not. From those I think the issue is that the latest pulseaudio hangs on trying to load module-native-protocol-unix. I'll try to raise this upstream.

[1] - http://pastebin.com/QNgjBFvG - working, with pulseaudio 6.0
[2] - http://pastebin.com/ijp4mbFw - not working, with pulseaudio 6.99
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Monday, 21 September 2015, 14:43 GMT
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92061

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