Comment 2 for bug 374010

jarkko@gandalf:~$ pulseaudio
W: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 13835058055282163616 bytes (418293516410 ms).
E: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump():
E: alsa-util.c: Hooks PCM
E: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
E: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK
E: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
E: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
E: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
E: alsa-util.c: channels : 2
E: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100
E: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1)
E: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
E: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 3584
E: alsa-util.c: period_size : 448
E: alsa-util.c: period_time : 10158
E: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
E: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1
E: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 448
E: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0
E: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1
E: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 8070450532247928832
E: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0
E: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0
E: alsa-util.c: boundary : 8070450532247928832
E: alsa-util.c: Slave: Hardware PCM card 1 'HDA ATI HDMI' device 3 subdevice 0
E: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
E: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK
E: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
E: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
E: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
E: alsa-util.c: channels : 2
E: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100
E: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1)
E: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
E: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 3584
E: alsa-util.c: period_size : 448
E: alsa-util.c: period_time : 10158
E: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
E: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1
E: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 448
E: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0
E: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1
E: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 8070450532247928832
E: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0
E: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0
E: alsa-util.c: boundary : 8070450532247928832
E: memblock.c: Assertion 'length' failed at pulsecore/memblock.c:356, function pa_memblock_new_fixed(). Aborting.

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