[Linphone-developers] linphone 3.9.0 - fails to open a window and hangs if no microphone is plugged

[James Feeney]

Hey

Installing linphone 3.9.0 from Arch Linux, and its various upgrade dependencies,
with KDE4 and pulseaudio, when no microphone is available, linphone hangs at
start-up, apparently waiting for a microphone.  Plugging-in a microphone after
linphone has already started does not help.

Plugging-in a microphone and then starting linphone, linphone seems to start
normally.

This would seem to be "bad behavior", simply because the start-up fails
silently.  Even "linphone --verbose" does not provide any informative message.

It would be much much better if there were at least some kind of error message
about a missing input device, and better if the linphone window opened normally,
and then showed a "missing input" error pop-up window.

Any thoughts?


James