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Pulseaudio reports ALSA driver bugs in module-alsa-sink

Bug #325562 reported by Chris Halse Rogers on 2009-02-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #320875: pulseaudio produces lots of log messages. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Similar to bug 320875, but I'm opening a new bug because I see this on different hardware.

When using my USB speakers (but not my onboard HDA Intel chip) pulseaudio will spit out a lot of
"""
E: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail_update() returned 0.
"""
messages. Filing a bug as pulseaudio requested ;).

alsa-info.sh output is here:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a4ad6b554fb3734b021d96cfad56664867c7e044

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-6-generic 2.6.28-6.17
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-6-generic root=UUID=f2e5dfe2-d591-4fce-876d-9c8c044e44b9 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-6.17-generic
SourcePackage: linux

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote on 2009-02-05:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (41.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (5.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (974 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
HalComputerInfo.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (13.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (632 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (4.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Vipin Balakrishnan (vipin-bmenon) wrote on 2010-05-27:

Hi All,

I'm also affected with the same bug I don't why People are not fixing this bug, or they are only time to say there philosophy of Ubuntu and Linux
Regards,
Vipin Balakrishnan.