Pulseaudio is not running - crashes periodically

[Brant Schlatzer]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Keeps happening -- audio works well for a time, and then goes to lunch. Not sure what the trigger is yet. Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: brants 2183 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: brants 2183 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6ffc000 irq 48'
   Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD71B7X'
   Components : 'HDA:111d76b2,10280251,00100302'
   Controls : 20
   Simple ctrls : 14
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'Q9000'/'Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 9000 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-3, high speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB046d:0990'
   Controls : 2
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
   Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
   Capture channels: Mono
   Limits: Capture 0 - 3072
   Mono: Capture 0 [0%] [18.00dB] [on]
Date: Thu Mar 24 21:27:42 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
Title: Pulseaudio is not running
dmi.bios.date: 08/11/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A07
dmi.board.name: 0D138P
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA07:bd08/11/2009:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionM6400:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0D138P:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Precision M6400
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log.

[Brant Schlatzer (bschlatzer)]

Have been logging for a few days based on the request above, but haven't had the problem crop up (naturally...). Will keep trying a while longer.

FWIW, I've had to "cure" the problem each time it's happened (4 or 5 times in a few weeks running Ubuntu on this box) by deleting ~/.pulse and ~/.pulse-cookie and rebooting (based on a suggestion from somewhere on the interwebs -- I don't believe rebooting alone fixed the issue, but will confirm when/if it happens again).

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

You might be suffering from bug 644644 which seems to be the most common crash cause.

[Brant Schlatzer (bschlatzer)]

Just wanted to update -- have still not been able to catch this bug with the verbose logging on for the past few days. Going to shut off logging and see if it returns. If not, I'll plan to close this issue until (when/if) the problem returns. I'm very grateful for the quick responses and suggestions -- thank you.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) reached end-of-life on April 10, 2012.

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We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]