Bug 3257 - pavucontrol debug error when trying to get bluetooth headset to work
Summary: pavucontrol debug error when trying to get bluetooth headset to work
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 1
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Colin Guthrie
QA Contact:
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Reported: 2011-11-03 19:51 CET by claire robinson
Modified: 2012-12-02 14:32 CET (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: pavucontrol-0.9.10-9.mga1.src.rpm
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments
urpmi command for all packages containing files accessed by pavucontrol (1.51 KB, text/plain)
2011-11-05 21:37 CET, Dave Hodgins
Details
strace.out (474.67 KB, application/octet-stream)
2012-01-19 12:24 CET, claire robinson
Details

Description claire robinson 2011-11-03 19:51:47 CET
Description of problem:

I've been trying the past few days to get sound from a little Jabra bluetooth ear piece. I'd like to use it to listen to some podcasts while I'm wondering around the room/house/loo/etc or with skype.

When the headset it paired and connected sound anywhere does not work, audacity for instance just says Buffering when trying to play a local mp3/ogg file. clicking on 'Open Sound Preferences' in bluetooth-applet (gnome) gives an error 'Waiting for Sound System to Respond'

None of that is really directly relevant to this bug though but it is how I noticed the error, and given the problems I've been having and the nature of the bug I thought it might be somehow related.

$ pavucontrol
** (pavucontrol:20400): DEBUG: Failed to initialize device manager extension: No such extension

It also happens when run as root.
Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2011-11-05 21:37:33 CET
Created attachment 1048 [details]
urpmi command for all packages containing files accessed by pavucontrol

Save the attachment, then run
chmod a+x ./nameoffile
sudo ./nameoffile

The command was generated by running pavucontrol under strace up
to the point it displays normal output, and then running a script
that gets all of the package names containing files in the strace
output.

The urpmi command has the --test option, so it will simply show
which (if any) packages are needed, that are not on your system.
Comment 2 claire robinson 2011-11-05 23:09:24 CET
Thanks Dave. Looks like its only some fonts that it's missing, some of which are Indian character fonts..

To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed:
(test only, installation will not be actually done)
   Package                        Version      Release       Arch   
(medium "Core Release")
  gnu-free-fonts-common          20100919     4.mga1        noarch  
  gnu-free-sans-fonts            20100919     4.mga1        noarch  
  gnu-free-serif-fonts           20100919     4.mga1        noarch  
  google-droid-sans-fonts        20100409     2.mga1        noarch  
  lohit-kannada-fonts            2.4.5        6.mga1        noarch  
  samyak-fonts-common            1.2.2        4.mga1        noarch  
  samyak-oriya-fonts             1.2.2        4.mga1        noarch  
  vemana2000-fonts               1.1.3        2.mga1        noarch  
9.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
3.9MB of packages will be retrieved.
Proceed with the installation of the 8 packages?

Installing them makes no difference.
Comment 3 Dave Hodgins 2011-11-06 00:51:08 CET
Try (as root) chown -Rc claire:claire /home/claire
If that doesn't fix it, as claire, run
strace -f -ostrace.txt pavucontrol
and then attach strace.txt

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2011-12-31 00:06:48 CET
(In reply to comment #3)
> Try (as root) chown -Rc claire:claire /home/claire
> If that doesn't fix it, as claire, run
> strace -f -ostrace.txt pavucontrol
> and then attach strace.txt

@ Claire

Did you ever get around to trying this?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-18 19:24:32 CET
@ Claire

Please reply to the question above within two weeks from now, to avoid this bug being closed as OLD. (If you need more time, please say so)
Comment 6 claire robinson 2012-01-19 11:32:11 CET
Sorry marja, I'd forgotten all about this one.
Comment 7 claire robinson 2012-01-19 11:48:32 CET
$ find . \! -user claire -print

none

$ find . \! -group claire -print
./.Xauthority.R8Fyo
./.Xauthority.A81gv
./.Xauthority.J5MLI
./.gnome2/epiphany/.migrated
./.gnome2/epiphany/ephy-history.xml
./.gnome2/epiphany/ephy-favicon-cache.xml
./.gnome2/epiphany/bookmarks.rdf
./.gnome2/epiphany/epiphany-toolbars-3.xml
./.gnome2/epiphany/states.xml
./.gnome2/epiphany/ephy-bookmarks.xml
./.gnome2/epiphany/favicon_cache/a161a37670f6455277c74c8044328082
./.Xauthority.H3FCE
./.Xauthority.4jnCQ
Comment 8 claire robinson 2012-01-19 12:24:46 CET
Created attachment 1392 [details]
strace.out

With the BT headset connected pavucontrol sits for a while with a blank window except:

Establishing a connection to pulseaudio, please wait..

After that it displays normally but with no BT device showing but two messages in terminal:

** (pavucontrol:3492): DEBUG: Connection failed, attempting reconnect
** (pavucontrol:3492): DEBUG: Ignoring sink-input due to it being designated as an event and thus handled by the Event widget
Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2012-02-03 14:09:38 CET
thx Claire :)

assigning to maintainer

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Comment 10 claire robinson 2012-02-03 14:23:33 CET
Thankyou marja :)
Comment 11 Colin Guthrie 2012-03-08 00:22:21 CET
Just for reference, you generally shouldn't need to run anything as root here.
I've just paired a Jabra headset I have here. It's not designed for Audio (no A2DP profile) but it worked OK (after I fought with gnome-bluetooth to make it pair properly...).

Can you still reproduce this issue?

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 12 claire robinson 2012-03-08 01:34:50 CET
IIRC nothing was run as root Colin.

I don't think anything has changed so I would imagine it is still reproducible but I'll give it another go and report back. The pairing was not the issue really it was getting it to work as an audio device but as you say it maybe isn't supposed to!

It should still be able to be used as a headset though shouldn't it? It won't do that either at the moment, not registering in PA.
Comment 13 Colin Guthrie 2012-03-08 02:23:11 CET
Well the strange thing to me is the "Connection failed" message. This should not come up. It indicates a bit of a problem - e.g. perhaps pulseaudio crashed and this message is indicative of a bigger problem.

Other than this connection refused message, all the other DEBUG messages you've listed are expected and harmless.

Cheers :)
Comment 14 Manuel Hiebel 2012-11-05 16:53:23 CET
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In approximately 25 days from now, Mageia will stop maintaining and issuing 
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Comment 15 Manuel Hiebel 2012-12-02 14:32:40 CET
Mageia 1 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on ''1st December''. Mageia 1 is no 
longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or 
bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. 

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Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX


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