Freeze when starting a game

[Ar4m1s]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• This is a bug in RetroArch frontend
• I have searched the existing issues

Description

When I start the game it freezes, but it is able to connect to retroachievements. It is entirely unresponsive, and only able to close the application by killing the process. The problem resides inside the while loop introduced by the commit found with bisect. Essentially if no audio is provided, the application will freeze.

Expected behavior

No freeze.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Block audio somehow?
2. Open retroarch and select game
3. Start game

Version/Commit

1.20.0.r135.fd8ba559d7-1

Bisect Results

1d6badb

Present in the nightly version

I don't know

Platform & operating system

Arch Linux x86_64

Affected Cores

No response

Environment information

window manager / compositor: dwl

Relevant log output

[Ar4m1s]

This is an issue on my side, since I do not provide any audio since my audio bluetooth setup has some issues. If i switch output things work again.

[viachaslavic]

@Ar4m1s Does this happen on any audio driver?

[Ar4m1s]

Only tested on pipewire.

[Ar4m1s]

Since freezing is likely not intended behavior, reopening.