FS#71341 - [libcanberra] 0.30+2+gc0620e4-4 breaks alsa-only setup (regression)
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Opened by Johannes (JailhouseJoe) - Wednesday, 23 June 2021, 13:19 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Thursday, 24 June 2021, 08:24 GMT
Opened by Johannes (JailhouseJoe) - Wednesday, 23 June 2021, 13:19 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Thursday, 24 June 2021, 08:24 GMT
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Description:
With version 0.30+2+gc0620e4-4 canberra-gtk-play fails to play sounds on alsa-only setups (i.e. without pulseaudio). I randomly get two different errors: $ canberra-gtk-play -i complete-download Failed to play sound: IO error $ canberra-gtk-play -i complete-download Failed to play sound: Not available Also Thunderbird notification sounds are gone. Downgrading to 0.30+2+gc0620e4-3 solves this issue. We discussed this in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1979513 and found out that canberra does not seem to try to use an ALSA device at all if it finds a pulse module. (Also see the attachted strace output of the above command.) Removing /usr/lib/libcanberra-0.30/libcanberra-pulse.so solves this. The easiest solution would be to split off the libcanberra-pulse package again, but maybe someone has a better proposal. Steps to reproduce: Run the above command on a setup without pulseaudio. 
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Closed by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Thursday, 24 June 2021, 08:24 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: libcanberra 0.30+2+gc0620e4-5
Thursday, 24 June 2021, 08:24 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: libcanberra 0.30+2+gc0620e4-5
I wonder if we should patch the code to use multi by default. I'd be interested to know if it works well when pulseaudio isn't available.
If patching this is an option, that would be great. I guess there are people out there having sound issues without even noticing that it's a canberra issue. (I first realized the missing sounds in thunderbird and could not figure out the problem. Only some time later I realized that canberra-gtk-play does not work and by downgrading found out that it also caused the problem with thunderbird.)