Pulseaudio crashes / restarts for no apparent reason
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Pulseaudio apparently crashes or restarts but I couldn't identify what triggers the problem.
The indicator icon suddenly shows the speaker with two dashes, no sound at all, and then after a few seconds the soundcard is detected either as "dummy audio device" or as "Analog output", in which case sound works again for a few minutes until it happens again.
Tried removing ~/.pulse and restarting the session. It didn't helped.
This is the only sign I found in /var/log/syslog:
Mar 13 15:55:42 e6510 pulseaudio[4592]: ( 0.009| 0.009) [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Mar 13 15:55:43 e6510 pulseaudio[4597]: ( 0.060| 0.060) [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Mar 13 15:58:48 e6510 pulseaudio[5030]: ( 0.000| 0.000) [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {7d28ecb219f790
Mar 13 15:58:48 e6510 pulseaudio[5031]: ( 0.000| 0.000) [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {7d28ecb219f790
Mar 13 15:58:51 e6510 pulseaudio[5041]: ( 2.258| 2.258) [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Mar 13 15:59:03 e6510 pulseaudio[5046]: ( 0.000| 0.000) [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {7d28ecb219f790
Mar 13 15:59:03 e6510 pulseaudio[5049]: ( 0.013| 0.013) [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Mar 13 16:02:33 e6510 pulseaudio[5103]: ( 0.000| 0.000) [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {7d28ecb219f790
Mar 13 16:02:33 e6510 pulseaudio[5104]: ( 0.000| 0.000) [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {7d28ecb219f790
Mar 13 16:02:33 e6510 pulseaudio[5107]: ( 0.009| 0.009) [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Mar 13 16:02:34 e6510 pulseaudio[5112]: ( 0.056| 0.056) [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Mar 13 16:19:59 e6510 pulseaudio[5819]: ( 0.000| 0.000) [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {7d28ecb219f790
Mar 13 16:19:59 e6510 pulseaudio[5826]: ( 0.009| 0.009) [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Mar 13 16:19:59 e6510 pulseaudio[5828]: ( 0.000| 0.000) [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {7d28ecb219f790
Mar 13 16:20:02 e6510 pulseaudio[5834]: ( 2.317| 2.317) [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Mar 13 16:24:00 e6510 pulseaudio[5900]: ( 0.000| 0.000) [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {7d28ecb219f790
Mar 13 16:24:00 e6510 pulseaudio[5903]: ( 0.008| 0.008) [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:1.1-0ubuntu12
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6960000 irq 44'
Mixer name : 'Intel IbexPeak HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:111d76d5,
Controls : 37
Simple ctrls : 13
Date: Tue Mar 13 16:49:10 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120110.2)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-12 (60 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/30/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 02K3Y4
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6510
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
modified.
mtime.conffile.
Forgot to mention that sounds works without problems with OpenSUSE and Microsoft Windows 7.