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pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #1870833
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1870833

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John Gilmore (gnu-gilmore) wrote :

With the -1ubuntu2 package, I no longer get a crash dump, but the audio is still not working. pulseaudio is aborting. Here is what is in syslog from bootup:

Apr 18 01:13:09 shh dbus-daemon[1218]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1' unit='rtkit-daemon.service' requested by ':1.31' (uid=122 pid=1443 comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no " label="unconfined")
...
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh pulseaudio[1443]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Mic1, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh pulseaudio[1443]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Mic2, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh pulseaudio[1443]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Line2, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh pulseaudio[1443]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Headphones, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh pulseaudio[1443]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Line1, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh pulseaudio[1443]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Speaker, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh pulseaudio[1443]: E: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: Assertion 'jack' failed at modules/alsa/alsa-ucm.c:2158, function device_add_hw_mute_jack(). Aborting.
...
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh systemd[1432]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh systemd[1432]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh systemd[1432]: Failed to start Sound Service.
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh systemd[1432]: Dependency failed for GNOME Sound sample caching handling.
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh systemd[1432]: gsd-sound.target: Job gsd-sound.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
...
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh systemd[1432]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
...
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh systemd[1432]: Stopped Sound Service.
Apr 18 01:13:10 shh systemd[1432]: Starting Sound Service...
...
Apr 18 01:13:11 shh pulseaudio[1790]: W: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
...
Apr 18 01:13:11 shh pulseaudio[1790]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Mic1, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:11 shh pulseaudio[1790]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Mic2, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:11 shh pulseaudio[1790]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Line2, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:11 shh pulseaudio[1790]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Headphones, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:11 shh pulseaudio[1790]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Line1, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:11 shh pulseaudio[1790]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Speaker, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:11 shh pulseaudio[1790]: E: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: Assertion 'jack' failed at modules/alsa/alsa-ucm.c:2158, function device_add_hw_mute_jack(). Aborting.
Apr 18 01:13:12 shh systemd[1432]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Apr 18 01:13:12 shh systemd[1432]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Apr 18 01:13:12 shh systemd[1432]: Failed to start Sound Service.
Apr 18 01:13:12 shh systemd[1432]: Startup finished in 2.727s.
Apr 18 01:13:12 shh systemd[1432]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Apr 18 01:13:12 shh systemd[1432]: Stopped Sound Service.
Apr 18 01:13:12 shh systemd[1432]: Starting Sound Service...
Apr 18 01:13:12 shh rtkit-daemon[1539]: Successfully made thread 1864 of process 1864 owned by '122' high priority at nice level -11.
Apr 18 01:13:12 shh rtkit-daemon[1539]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of
1 users.
Apr 18 01:13:12 shh pulseaudio[1864]: W: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
...
Apr 18 01:13:13 shh pulseaudio[1864]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Mic1, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:13 shh pulseaudio[1864]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Mic2, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:13 shh pulseaudio[1864]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Line2, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:13 shh pulseaudio[1864]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Headphones, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:13 shh pulseaudio[1864]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Line1, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:13 shh pulseaudio[1864]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM file does not specify 'PlaybackChannels' or 'CaptureChannels'for device Speaker, assuming stereo duplex.
Apr 18 01:13:13 shh pulseaudio[1864]: E: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: Assertion 'jack' failed at modules/alsa/alsa-ucm.c:2158, function device_add_hw_mute_jack(). Aborting.
Apr 18 01:13:13 shh systemd[1432]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Apr 18 01:13:13 shh systemd[1432]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Apr 18 01:13:13 shh systemd[1432]: Failed to start Sound Service.
...
(it went around a few more times, then...)
Apr 18 01:13:16 shh systemd[1432]: pulseaudio.socket: Failed with result 'service-start-limit-hit'.

$ apt-cache policy pulseaudio
pulseaudio:
  Installed: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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