Pulseeffects: Pulseeffects wants to be resetted after every reboot

[TimB87]

Hi there,

I created a port for pulseaudio (and some of it's deps) some time ago and still test it - but I haven't got to work around the following:
After every reboot, it asks to be reset after an update (even though it wasn't updated). In addition: I am not able to change any 'effects settings' despite application specific - means I have enabled the equalizer after a reset and I am not able to turn it off after the next reboot for example.

Any idea what makes it that way? What can I provide as additional information? Distribution is CRUX.

Thanks in advance and have a great weekend!

[wwmm]

Try to update to the latest PE version. It does not have this popup anymore

[TimB87]

True, the popup is gone, still I can not change the settings.
https://i.imgur.com/bWfDpDI.png

Edit: I can close this issue and open a new one if you want?

[wwmm]

Now we have to know if you have all the optional dependencies installed. Kill the current instance pulseeffects -q and restart it in debug mode G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=pulseeffects pulseeffects.

[TimB87]

That's weird, it says it can't find the plugins but I do have the deps.
Debug output: http://dpaste.com/0WEME6E

Meson output during build: http://dpaste.com/23QKTF7

Edit: additional information: http://dpaste.com/1685E8V
These are the ports CRUX lacks and I created (not my most recent copy, not yet published) https://nullvoid.de/crux/ports/pulseeffects/

Edit2: taken from another issue two weeks ago, this command gst-inspect-1.0 | grep -i loudness does not output anything for me, so I get the idea that gst is not playing nice here?

[wwmm]

Try to remove GStreamer cache rm -rf ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0

[wwmm]

If that does not work check if gst-plugins-bad was compiled with lilv. In case you want the crossfeed plugingst-plugins-bad also has to be compiled with bs2b library.

[TimB87]

I think that rebuilding gst-plugins-bad did the trick for me! I will check a bit - right now I can disable and reenable options even without a reset, which is by far better then before.
Will report back if I find anything - thanks for the help :+1:

[TimB87]

Okay, so with the above rebuild of gst-plugins-bad I can say (with the three options I use): I can disable and re-enable at will (equalizer and loudness) - but just after killing the daemon once and restarting it will make the limiter not interactable [1].

Looking at the arch package, I see calf is responsible for limiter? I just assume that it works right since I can enable it after a reset? This is what I used to compile a CRUX package for it: http://sprunge.us/zqDK9V

Edit: libbs2b is installed as well and was used during the recompile of gst-plugins-bad

[1] https://i.imgur.com/idPYB1t.png

[wwmm]

bs2b is only for the crossfeed. What is the output of gst-inspect-1.0 | grep -i calf | grep -i limiter?

[wwmm]

When you start PE in debug mode does it say that the limiter was not found? Is there any error?

[TimB87]

gst-inspect-1.0 | grep -i calf | grep -i limiter does show nothing, indeed.. gst-plugins-bad doesn't seem to pick that up.. I'll have a closer look into that port.

It does indeed complain about some stuff, this is the output: http://dpaste.com/1TRCZ13

[TimB87]

Alright, so I think it was a problem with my port for calf after all, I had to add --with-lv2-dir instead of moving it around. Seems like I was mindless! Now it does seem to work the way it's supposed to :smile: :+1: I think this is ready to be closed, I will test my port further and I think I will push it to CRUX contrib repository! Thanks for the help and this software, greatly appreciated!