So I’m having, since 13. May update, intermittent trouble with music playback (well and sound in general) … Sometimes it works, other times it does not… Audio is played via USB to DAC –
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 17ae:0003 NAD Electronics NAD USB Audio
Using either VLC or Elementary has … strange behaviour… Sometimes the song will progress 00:00, 00:01, 00:02, etc… Other times it will show as playing but stay at 00:00 …
Youtube playback also suffers from this via Brave browser.
Same goes for Apple music via Firefox (music.apple.c…)
Playing a song will show as playing, but stops at 00:00 - This I think is done through Widevine or w/e it’s called… But it behaves the same as VLC, which is why I am now befuddled…
This has not been an issue before the 13. May update, and updating to 23. May release did not help.
I will make a separate thread, but just asking here in case it is a known issue (although I cannot seem to see any reports of this so far).
The “volume mouse scroll” behaviour is also utterly laggy and sometimes unresponsive … the 0-100% overlay bar that pops up midscreen to show what % you adjusted it to, was snappy and responsive before. Now it is laggy and responds maybe 1-2 seconds after adjustment by mousescrollwheel.
Apart from that, everything else is working fine!
Edit:
The lag was caused by some sort of failure restoring pulseaudio I guess? Killing pulseaudio stopped the volume adjustment lag AND gave me sound back again… Rebooting didn’t initially help at all…
This is from journalctl, and was spamming during the volume lag + missing sound
mai 25 13:40:40 mahakala pulseaudio[2006]: Resume failed, couldn't restore original fragment settings. (Old: 576000/288000, New 529200/264600)
mai 25 13:40:40 mahakala pulseaudio[2006]: Resume failed, couldn't restore original fragment settings. (Old: 576000/288000, New 529200/264600)
mai 25 13:40:40 mahakala pulseaudio[2006]: Resume failed, couldn't restore original fragment settings. (Old: 576000/288000, New 529200/264600)
mai 25 13:40:40 mahakala pulseaudio[2006]: Resume failed, couldn't restore original fragment settings. (Old: 576000/288000, New 529200/264600)
mai 25 13:40:40 mahakala pulseaudio[2006]: Resume failed, couldn't restore original fragment settings. (Old: 576000/288000, New 529200/264600)
After killing pulseaudio:
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/ldac_hq
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/ldac_sq
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/ldac_mq
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/aptx_hd
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/aptx_hd
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/aptx
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/aptx
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_453
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_453
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_512
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_512
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_552
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.54 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_552
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala plasmashell[1982]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: context kaput
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala systemd[1769]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala systemd[1769]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala plasmashell[1982]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.usb-NAD_Electronics_NAD_USB_Audio-00.iec958-stereo"
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala systemd[1769]: pulseaudio.service: Consumed 2.364s CPU time.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala plasmashell[1982]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.usb-NAD_Electronics_NAD_USB_Audio-00.iec958-stereo"
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala plasmashell[1982]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_input.usb-C-Media_Electronics_Inc._USB_PnP_Sound_Device-00.mono-fallback"
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala systemd[1769]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala systemd[1769]: Stopped Sound Service.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala systemd[1769]: pulseaudio.service: Consumed 2.364s CPU time.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala systemd[1769]: Starting Sound Service...
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala pulseaudio[4413]: E: [pulseaudio] daemon-conf.c: [/etc/pulse/daemon.conf:103] Deprecated option 'enable-lfe-remixing' found.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala pulseaudio[4413]: E: [pulseaudio] daemon-conf.c: [/etc/pulse/daemon.conf:103] Please migrate to 'remixing-produce-lfe' and 'remixing-consume-lfe', set both to 'no'.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala rtkit-daemon[2022]: Successfully made thread 4413 of process 4413 owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala rtkit-daemon[2022]: Supervising 4 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala pulseaudio[4413]: Stale PID file, overwriting.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala pulseaudio[4413]: The decibel volume range for element 'PCM' (-2837 dB - -6 dB) has negative maximum. Disabling the decibel range.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala pulseaudio[4413]: The decibel volume range for element 'PCM' (-2837 dB - -6 dB) has negative maximum. Disabling the decibel range.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala pulseaudio[4413]: The decibel volume range for element 'PCM' (-2837 dB - -6 dB) has negative maximum. Disabling the decibel range.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala pulseaudio[4413]: The decibel volume range for element 'PCM' (-2837 dB - -6 dB) has negative maximum. Disabling the decibel range.
mai 25 13:40:42 mahakala pulseaudio[4413]: The decibel volume range for element 'PCM' (-2837 dB - -6 dB) has negative maximum. Disabling the decibel range.
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala plasmashell[1982]: file:///usr/lib/qt/qml/org/kde/plasma/extras/PlaceholderMessage.qml:238:5: QML Heading: Binding loop detected for property "verticalAlignment"
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala pulseaudio[4413]: stat('/etc/pulse/default.pa.d'): No such file or directory
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala systemd[1769]: Started Sound Service.
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala plasmashell[1982]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_input.usb-C-Media_Electronics_Inc._USB_PnP_Sound_Device-00.mono-fallback"
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/ldac_hq
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/ldac_sq
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/ldac_mq
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/aptx_hd
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/aptx_hd
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/aptx
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/aptx
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_453
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_453
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_512
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_512
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_552
mai 25 13:40:43 mahakala bluetoothd[1268]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.71 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_552
mai 25 13:42:08 mahakala kwin_x11[1876]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 49810, resource id: 81789037, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
mai 25 13:42:08 mahakala systemd[1769]: Started VLC media player - Media player.
And hey presto, both brave browser and VLC have playback again…
…
Following journalctl while trying out different playbacks to see if I can reproduce this, so far only this has jumped out as a maybe something:
mai 25 13:56:42 mahakala kwin_x11[1876]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 61461, resource id: 85983239, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
mai 25 13:56:57 mahakala pulseaudio[4942]: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write.
mai 25 13:56:57 mahakala pulseaudio[4942]: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_usb_audio'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
mai 25 13:56:57 mahakala pulseaudio[4942]: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.
