This is hard to diagnose. I built 0.9.22 packages from natty, then installed pulseaudio-dbg_0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
In ~/.pulse/daemon.conf, I enabled log-level = debug log-meta = yes log-time = yes log-backtrace = 1 then ran pulseaudio under gdb with $ killall pulseaudio; rm ~/.pulse-cookie; gdb --args pulseaudio --log- target=stderr [...] (1533.966| 36.781) D: [modules/alsa/alsa-sink.c:1496 thread_func()] Wakeup from ALSA! (libpulsecommon-0.9.22.so(pa_log_levelv_meta+0x5e9) [0x1cda59]) (1572.048| 38.082) D: [modules/alsa/alsa-sink.c:1496 thread_func()] Wakeup from ALSA! (libpulsecommon-0.9.22.so(pa_log_levelv_meta+0x5e9) [0x1cda59]) [Thread 0xb7355b70 (LWP 24417) exited] [Thread 0xb7b68b70 (LWP 24416) exited] Program terminated with signal SIGKILL, Killed. So, it's impossible to tell what's happening. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367671 Title: PulseAudio gets killed mysteriously on RT kernels -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs