Comment 14 for bug 222428

This happens for me too. I have an HDA-Intel soundcard

cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xdc440000 irq 22

lspci -v

 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff01
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
 Memory at dc440000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

I'm running an upgraded 8.04 to Intrepid (kernel version 2.6.27-5-generic). This only started happening once I upgraded to Intrepid. I have to restart in order for this to fix itself. Affects all sound programs, haven't tried the pulseaudio reload or alsa reload.

I noticed that there's a single alsa process that goes zombie, which is a child of wish 8.5, running aMsn. Killing wish 8.5 doesn't fix the problem, even though the zombie alsa process does get cleaned up