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lykwydchykyn

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Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 91

Pulseaudio keeps dying

For about the last week or so, probably since i upgraded to pulseaudio 7, pulseaudio keeps dying on both my arch machines.  The process keeps running but nothing can connect to it, and sound software acts like there's no server running.

I can fix it with

pulseaudio -k

but it's pretty darn obnoxious because it dies about every 10 minutes or so.  The only pulseaudio error in the journal is:

E: [pulseaudio] shm.c:  shm_unlink(/pulse-shm-3385545012) failed: No such file or directory

Any ideas about this?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Pulseaudio keeps dying

shm errors could be because of the openjdk7 memory leak. are you using any java application? if so switch to openjdk8 instead of 7, as it has a bug that can lead to problems of all kinds because it leaks shared memory

lykwydchykyn

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Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 91

Re: Pulseaudio keeps dying

No java on my laptop.  on my workstation I have an application using 32-bit oracle jre, but no openjdk AFAIK.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Pulseaudio keeps dying

No changes to pulse's default configuration files? Maybe your local conf files got corrupted, try deleting ~/.config/pulse and ~/.pulse

lykwydchykyn

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Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 91

Re: Pulseaudio keeps dying

Hmm... no changes really.  There were some files in ~/.config/pulse but deleting them made no difference.

lykwydchykyn

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Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 91

Re: Pulseaudio keeps dying

Still no solution, so I'm going to see how downgrading to pulseaudio 6.02 does.