Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) reached end-of-life on April 30, 2011.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Please upgrade to the latest version and re-test. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502493 Title: Configuring the process priorites of pulseaudio is buggy Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: pulseaudio I still have issues with crackling startup sound and occasional stutters in xine. I tried to fix it by reconfiguring pulseaudio. Doing this I think I found several small bugs. I read about the ongoing changes in pulseaudio and rtkit. Some of the bugs might get solved anyway. I opened this bug report to find out if my findings are bugs and that they all get fixed in 10.04. I use Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) with pulseaudio 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4. For my pulseaudio config see bug #265010, comment 12 and 13. Bug A: "high-priority = no" doesn't work. It's always enabled. Bug B: "realtime-scheduling = yes" doesn't work in Karmic, even if log says it does! Bug C: rlimit-nice > 31 is clipped down to 31, which is weird and needless IMHO. To verify bug B, I invoke "chrt -p -v $(ps -C pulseaudio -o pid=)". According to http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/UbuntuBugs bug B is already known, but the misleading log message should be corrected. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/502493/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp