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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: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570015 Title: Fast respawning when module-alsa-sink can't be loaded Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Ah, got it. Pulseaudio won't start (under my user's account) because of: E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device=plughw:0 rate=44100"): initialization failed. E: main.c: Module load failed. E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. And that module was specified in ~/.pulse/default.pa, which is a leftover from the time when pulseaudio wasn't working and I was trying to do something about it. So I deleted ~/.pulse/default.pa, stopped pulseaudio that was started by hand and polkitd is still behaving perfectly fine. Even the music is playing, although I have no pulseaudio running. :-) Then I killed polkitd and it wasn't restarted. So I started pulseudio by hand (from my user's account) and then polkitd appeared. It's peacefully sleeping in poll() and isn't leaking memory. -- Original report: Binary package hint: policykit-1 Upon upgrading to the new build of Lucid, a problem I thought I had fixed with policykit has reappeared. i am getting high CPU usage and a memory leak from the process polkitd, run under policykit-1. Upon boot and logging into a fresh account, I get no problems, but once I log into my main account, the problem appears. Logging out and back into the fresh account carries the problem over to the fresh account as well. I noticed that there were three carry-over processes from the main account: indicator-sound, pulseaudio, and the root process polkitd. I thought I had fixed this through removing respawnable hidden directories in my home folder, but that hasn't worked this time. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: policykit-1 0.96-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Apr 26 00:17:42 2010 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd ProcEnviron: SourcePackage: policykit-1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/570015/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp