Additionally, I got no other error messages before the "Failed to push data into queue" one, and it happened when I was far, far away from the machine. The following is from /var/log/user.log:
Dec 5 03:48:44 adam-linux pulseaudio[3518]: protocol-native.c: Failed to push data into queue
Dec 5 03:48:45 adam-linux last message repeated 2418 times
I get bit by this every so often; if there's a question of hardware involved, I'm running the following:
$ lspci|grep audio
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Additionally, I got no other error messages before the "Failed to push data into queue" one, and it happened when I was far, far away from the machine. The following is from /var/log/user.log:
Dec 5 03:48:44 adam-linux pulseaudio[3518]: protocol-native.c: Failed to push data into queue
Dec 5 03:48:45 adam-linux last message repeated 2418 times