[Jaunty] Pulseaudio fills my logfiles.

[Spider]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

ls -lh syslog
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 140M 2009-03-10 22:50 syslog
Waves% grep 'pulseaudio' syslog |wc -l
586824
Waves% wc -l syslog
589402 syslog

For an example of what pulseaudio is doing, it's using ~80% cpu, 60% more in syslog, and my log is full of :

Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047658039424 bytes (418250295751 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047658025088 bytes (418250295670 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047658010752 bytes (418250295588 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047658010852 bytes (418250295589 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657996516 bytes (418250295508 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657982180 bytes (418250295426 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657967844 bytes (418250295345 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657953508 bytes (418250295264 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657939172 bytes (418250295183 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657924836 bytes (418250295101 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657910500 bytes (418250295020 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657896164 bytes (418250294939 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657881828 bytes (418250294858 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657867492 bytes (418250294776 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657867648 bytes (418250294777 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657853312 bytes (418250294696 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657838976 bytes (418250294615 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Mar 10 22:44:24 Waves pulseaudio[4494]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058047657824640 bytes (418250294533 ms) Most l
ikely this is a Linux bug. Please report this

I was simply trying to play the new NIN video from vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/3496673

pulseaudio:
  Installed: 0.9.14-0ubuntu11
  Candidate: 0.9.14-0ubuntu11
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.14-0ubuntu11 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

Compare bug #320875.

I have this problem too. After a resume I see hundreds of these in the syslog:

<pre>
Mar 11 10:17:45 triffid pulseaudio[4148]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 2317499328 bytes (13137751 ms) Most likely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
</pre>

Fortunately this doesn't go on forever.

[Hew (hew)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 320875, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Leonid Selivanov (bravebug-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug affect me too. And I think because of that my computer reboots without my involvement, when I listen to music or watching a movie.