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Chris Knadle (chris-knadle) wrote : Re: [Bug 1874231] [NEW] mumble freezes all audio applications

Björn Jacke:
> Public bug reported:
>
> after upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 starting mumble freezes all audio
> applications.
>
> The audio related log at startup:
>
> JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
> self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
> Cannot lock down 82280346 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)
> audio_reservation_init
> Acquire audio card Audio0
> creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
> configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames (21.3 ms), buffer = 2 periods
> ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian
> ALSA: use 2 periods for capture
> ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian
> ALSA: use 2 periods for playback
>
> - running applications using sound freeze until mumble is stopped again
>
> - starting for example a new mpv player (while a blocking mumble client
> is active) says "[ao/pulse] The stream is suspended. Bailing out."
>
> The problem does not change if I disable all mumble plugins, it does
> also not change if I change audio input/output system to
> alsa/jack/pluseaudio or oss.
>
> ** Affects: mumble (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New

This issue also came up for Debian and is explained in bug #952742 ; by default
the Mumble client will start Jack if it is installed and will try to use it, but
there are no options in the GUI itself to control this.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=952742

This issue is fixed upstream with a one-line change not to start Jackd by default:

https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/pull/3990/commits/0780d93aab3eec9796e1cb8606c5f3c089d64eca

Mumble upstream is preparing a 1.3.1 bugfix release and recently uploaded an rc1
release candidate which I'm evaluating to see if it's releasable.

   -- Chris

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