pulseaudio crashed and made system unusable for more than 20 minutes

[Bremm]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

I was playing Speed Dreams (loading a track) and suddenly the hard disk started to thrash (probably because of memory swap). I had time enough to drink some coffee, while I have been waiting for an oom-killer or anything odd.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 [modified: usr/bin/pulseaudio usr/lib/libpulsecore-0.9.21.so]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: bremm 23961 F.... pulseaudio
                      bremm 31633 F.... xfce4-volumed
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'CK804'/'NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at irq 23'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC850 rev 0'
   Components : 'AC97a:414c4790'
   Controls : 42
   Simple ctrls : 27
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'UART'/'MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10'
   Mixer name : ''
   Components : ''
   Controls : 0
   Simple ctrls : 0
Card1.Amixer.values:

Date: Thu Apr 22 04:52:10 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:pt_PT:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1016
dmi.board.name: A8N-SLI DELUXE
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.XX
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 123456789000
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvrASUSA8N-SLIDELUXEACPIBIOSRevision1016:bd12/01/2005:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnA8N-SLIDELUXE:rvr1.XX:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

How is this a pulseaudio bug?

[Bremm (bremm)]

First of all, it's the 1st time I've got a bug on pulseaudio (never had before, because I always had it disabled, until Xubuntu 10.04 alpha 2). And second, /var/log syslog spitted off tons of lines with pulseaudio blaming some Intel driver that was loaded, but my board shouldn't use it, since it uses a NVIDIA and not an INTEL chip.

When things went back, I noticed the game was muted and I had to exit from Xfce and turn back to get it working again.

$ cat /var/log/syslog.1 | grep pulseaudio | grep Apr\ 22\ 04
Apr 22 04:21:26 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: O snd_pcm_avail() retornou um valor que é excepcionalmente grande: 406688 bytes (2118 ms).
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: É mais provável que isso seja um erro no driver "snd_intel8x0" do ALSA. Por favor, relate esse problema aos desenvolvedores do ALSA.
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump():
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'NVidia CK804' device 0 subdevice 0
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: channels : 2
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: rate : 48000
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: period_size : 16384
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: period_time : 341333
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 16384
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 4611686018427387904
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: boundary : 4611686018427387904
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 5697024
Apr 22 04:21:36 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 5914624
Apr 22 04:21:40 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: O snd_pcm_delay() retornou um valor que é excepcionalmente grande: -3041280 bytes (-15840 ms).
Apr 22 04:21:40 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: É mais provável que isso seja um erro no driver "snd_intel8x0" do ALSA. Por favor, relate esse problema aos desenvolvedores do ALSA.
Apr 22 04:21:40 host pulseaudio[23961]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm...

[Jorge (jorgeeb4)]

My motherboard have an integrated ALC883 sound chip.

And everything works fine outside Skype, playback and recording.

When I set Skype playback to work with pulseaudio it works for some seconds then the entire sound system seems to crash, no more sounds, even outside Skype.

My motherboard is an ASUS P5VD2-X;
And Ubuntu lucid have automatically set VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10) as the driver for my motherboard ALC883 integrated sound chip.

Thank you, once more, for the promptly reply.

syslog:

Jul 3 10:52:00 dbus-daemon: Reloaded configuration
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: O snd_pcm_delay() retornou um valor que é excepcionalmente grande: 1480680480 bytes (8393880 ms).
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: É mais provável que isso seja um erro no driver "snd_hda_intel" do ALSA. Por favor, relate esse problema aos desenvolvedores do ALSA.
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump():
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: Soft volume PCM
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: Control: PCM Playback Volume
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: min_dB: -51
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: max_dB: 0
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: resolution: 256
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: stream : CAPTURE
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: channels : 2
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1)
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 88192
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: period_size : 44096
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: period_time : 999909
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 44096
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 1444937728
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: boundary : 1444937728
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: Slave: Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA VIA VT82xx' device 0 subdevice 0
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: stream : CAPTURE
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835]: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
Jul 3 10:53:09 pulseaudio[1835...

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

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