PulseAudio connection fails, causing program crashes

[Dan Kegel]

I switched the main wine buildbot client from Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.10, and now I've seen tests fail several times,
preceded by the message
ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:746:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create stream: Connection terminated
This is the main source of spurious test failures for the wine buildbot at the moment.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
libasound2-plugins:
  Installed: 1.0.24-0ubuntu6
  Candidate: 1.0.24-0ubuntu6.1
  Version table:
     1.0.24-0ubuntu6.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-proposed/main i386 Packages
 *** 1.0.24-0ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Dan Kegel (dank)]

Seems I'm running into them roughly every day or two,
which makes this the main roadblock towards hitting
my one-week-between-spurious-failures goal.

Ideas (in order I might try them):
- install alsa-plugins from git
- install candidate packages from ubuntu (e.g. new gcc)
- disable pulseaudio
- downgrade from ubuntu-11.10

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Is it actually a spurious failure or is something genuinely broken with pulse here?

[Dan Kegel (dank)]

It looks like Pulseaudio is really failing, which is causing spurious test failures in wine.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[jre (jre-phoenix)]

This should be fixed by now.