Fast respawning when module-alsa-sink can't be loaded
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Ah, got it. Pulseaudio won't start (under my user's account) because of:
E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device=plughw:0 rate=44100"): initialization failed.
E: main.c: Module load failed.
E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
And that module was specified in ~/.pulse/
So I deleted ~/.pulse/
Then I killed polkitd and it wasn't restarted. So I started pulseudio by hand (from my user's account) and then polkitd appeared. It's peacefully sleeping in poll() and isn't leaking memory.
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Original report:
Binary package hint: policykit-1
Upon upgrading to the new build of Lucid, a problem I thought I had fixed with policykit has reappeared. i am getting high CPU usage and a memory leak from the process polkitd, run under policykit-1. Upon boot and logging into a fresh account, I get no problems, but once I log into my main account, the problem appears. Logging out and back into the fresh account carries the problem over to the fresh account as well. I noticed that there were three carry-over processes from the main account: indicator-sound, pulseaudio, and the root process polkitd. I thought I had fixed this through removing respawnable hidden directories in my home folder, but that hasn't worked this time.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: policykit-1 0.96-2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 26 00:17:42 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/
ProcEnviron:
SourcePackage: policykit-1
I've found that by running 'rm -rf .*' in my home directory and rebooting that the problem has gone away.
Mine's a non-essential box though, so I wouldn't recommend a blanket delete like that to everyone.