I'm also experiencing several crash. I'm using an Asus PRIME B450M-A II motherboard.
$ systemctl status --user pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.service - Sound Service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Sun 2021-01-10 20:55:22 CET; 25min ago TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket Main PID: 1474 (pulseaudio) CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/pulseaudio.service └─1474 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal gen 10 20:55:22 XXX systemd[1468]: Starting Sound Service... gen 10 20:55:22 XXX systemd[1468]: Started Sound Service. gen 10 20:55:26 XXX pulseaudio[1474]: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write. gen 10 20:55:26 XXX pulseaudio[1474]: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. gen 10 20:55:26 XXX pulseaudio[1474]: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail. gen 10 20:55:47 XXX pulseaudio[1474]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. $ uname -a Linux XXX 5.8.0-36-generic #40~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 6 10:15:55 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1873641 Title: pulseaudio says: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1873641/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs