Public bug reported:

Pulseaudio apparently crashes or restarts but I couldn't identify what triggers 
the problem. 
The indicator icon suddenly shows the speaker with two dashes, no sound at all, 
and then after a few seconds the soundcard is detected either as "dummy audio 
device" or as "Analog output", in which case sound works again for a few 
minutes until it happens again.

Tried removing ~/.pulse and restarting the session. It didn't helped.

This is the only sign I found in /var/log/syslog:


Mar 13 15:55:42 e6510 pulseaudio[4592]: (   0.009|   0.009) [pulseaudio] pid.c: 
Stale PID file, overwriting.
Mar 13 15:55:43 e6510 pulseaudio[4597]: (   0.060|   0.060) [pulseaudio] pid.c: 
Daemon already running.
Mar 13 15:58:48 e6510 pulseaudio[5030]: (   0.000|   0.000) [pulseaudio] 
main.c: User-configured server at 
{7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b}unix:/home/dschulz/.pulse/7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b-runtime/native,
 which appears to be local. Probing deeper.
Mar 13 15:58:48 e6510 pulseaudio[5031]: (   0.000|   0.000) [pulseaudio] 
main.c: User-configured server at 
{7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b}unix:/home/dschulz/.pulse/7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b-runtime/native,
 which appears to be local. Probing deeper.
Mar 13 15:58:51 e6510 pulseaudio[5041]: (   2.258|   2.258) [pulseaudio] pid.c: 
Daemon already running.
Mar 13 15:59:03 e6510 pulseaudio[5046]: (   0.000|   0.000) [pulseaudio] 
main.c: User-configured server at 
{7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b}unix:/home/dschulz/.pulse/7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b-runtime/native,
 which appears to be local. Probing deeper.
Mar 13 15:59:03 e6510 pulseaudio[5049]: (   0.013|   0.013) [pulseaudio] pid.c: 
Stale PID file, overwriting.
Mar 13 16:02:33 e6510 pulseaudio[5103]: (   0.000|   0.000) [pulseaudio] 
main.c: User-configured server at 
{7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b}unix:/home/dschulz/.pulse/7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b-runtime/native,
 which appears to be local. Probing deeper.
Mar 13 16:02:33 e6510 pulseaudio[5104]: (   0.000|   0.000) [pulseaudio] 
main.c: User-configured server at 
{7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b}unix:/home/dschulz/.pulse/7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b-runtime/native,
 which appears to be local. Probing deeper.
Mar 13 16:02:33 e6510 pulseaudio[5107]: (   0.009|   0.009) [pulseaudio] pid.c: 
Stale PID file, overwriting.
Mar 13 16:02:34 e6510 pulseaudio[5112]: (   0.056|   0.056) [pulseaudio] pid.c: 
Daemon already running.
Mar 13 16:19:59 e6510 pulseaudio[5819]: (   0.000|   0.000) [pulseaudio] 
main.c: User-configured server at 
{7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b}unix:/home/dschulz/.pulse/7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b-runtime/native,
 which appears to be local. Probing deeper.
Mar 13 16:19:59 e6510 pulseaudio[5826]: (   0.009|   0.009) [pulseaudio] pid.c: 
Stale PID file, overwriting.
Mar 13 16:19:59 e6510 pulseaudio[5828]: (   0.000|   0.000) [pulseaudio] 
main.c: User-configured server at 
{7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b}unix:/home/dschulz/.pulse/7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b-runtime/native,
 which appears to be local. Probing deeper.
Mar 13 16:20:02 e6510 pulseaudio[5834]: (   2.317|   2.317) [pulseaudio] pid.c: 
Daemon already running.
Mar 13 16:24:00 e6510 pulseaudio[5900]: (   0.000|   0.000) [pulseaudio] 
main.c: User-configured server at 
{7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b}unix:/home/dschulz/.pulse/7d28ecb219f790d6371240550000000b-runtime/native,
 which appears to be local. Probing deeper.
Mar 13 16:24:00 e6510 pulseaudio[5903]: (   0.008|   0.008) [pulseaudio] pid.c: 
Stale PID file, overwriting.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:1.1-0ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0:  dschulz    5903 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6960000 irq 44'
   Mixer name   : 'Intel IbexPeak HDMI'
   Components   : 'HDA:111d76d5,1028040b,00100104 
HDA:80862804,80860101,00100000'
   Controls      : 37
   Simple ctrls  : 13
Date: Tue Mar 13 16:49:10 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 
(20120110.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-12 (60 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/30/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 02K3Y4
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd11/30/2011:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6510:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn02K3Y4:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6510
dmi.product.version: 0001
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
modified.conffile..etc.pulse.daemon.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.pulse.daemon.conf: 2012-03-11T19:42:49.354579

** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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