[Bug 85791] Re: when sound hardware fails, amarok locks the computer trying to play all songs in playlist

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Well, the pulseaudio issue is not relevant for the Amarok problems. The
Amarok bug manifests itself whenever the sound hardware becomes
unavailable, no matter why.

In this case it was triggered by a pulseaudio problem, but that's not
relevant. It's Amarok's behavior that blocks the computer.

(If you just want to simulate the bug, I _think_ you can install
pulseaudio, configure it to intercept alsa, and kill the pulseaudio
daemon while Amarok is playing. This should cause the same effect. In my
case the bug was caused by Flash 9 hogging the audio server, but really
that's another issue. I have a support question up about it.)

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when sound hardware fails, amarok locks the computer trying to play all songs in playlist
https://launchpad.net/bugs/85791