Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: pulseaudio
Ever since upgrading to Intrepid from Hardy, the pulseaudio daemon
periodically gets into a state where it does not play any sound. Some
apps will actually freeze if I attempt to play sound in them (e.g.,
Rhythmbox) while others work normally but with no sound (e.g., Flash in
Firefox using aoss and the pulse plugin via the .asoundrc). Trying to
kill pulseaudio with -15 has no effect; instead you must use -9. After
restarting it, newly opened applications will play sound just fine,
until the problem occurs again. It happens about once per day for me,
and so far it always seems to be when I'm not home, so perhaps the
problem only occurs when sound is not in use? Or maybe there is some
sort of gradual leak? I usually have Hulu, SMPlayer, and Rhythmbox open
24/7.
After it happened today I checked the syslog for things relating to
pulseaudio and found only the following:
Nov 7 17:16:54 tinygod3 pulseaudio[30771]: protocol-native.c: Failed to push
data into queue
Nov 7 17:16:55 tinygod3 last message repeated 15093 times
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
$ apt-cache policy pulseaudio
pulseaudio:
Installed: 0.9.10-2ubuntu9
Candidate: 0.9.10-2ubuntu9
Version table:
*** 0.9.10-2ubuntu9 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[Intrepid] pulseaudio periodically gets into a state where it does not play any
sound and must be kill -9'ed and restarted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295435
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