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jwinnie

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Registered: 2020-03-19

Posts: 5

Pulseaudio fails after a period of time

I installed PulseAudio and enabled it with `systemctl --user enable pulseaudio`. Sound works when I boot up the system and log in but then it stops working, seemingly at random. At about the same time `pactl` starts to fail with the message "Connection failure: connection terminated" and `pavucontrol` hangs at "Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait..." Restarting PulseAudio doesn't work. Only a reboot can fix it again.

Output of `systemctl --user status pulseaudio`:

```
● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-03-19 16:32:37 PDT; 12min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
   Main PID: 8440 (pulseaudio)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-60289.slice/user@60289.service/pulseaudio.service
             ├─8440 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
             └─8444 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper

Mar 19 16:32:36 ProjectGenesis systemd[717]: Starting Sound Service...
Mar 19 16:32:37 ProjectGenesis systemd[717]: Started Sound Service.
```

Output of `systemctl --user status pulseaudio.socket`:

```
● pulseaudio.socket - Sound System
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-03-19 16:32:23 PDT; 14min ago
   Triggers: ● pulseaudio.service
     Listen: /run/user/60289/pulse/native (Stream)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-60289.slice/user@60289.service/pulseaudio.socket

Mar 19 16:32:23 ProjectGenesis systemd[717]: Listening on Sound System.
```

I've tried setting `autospawn = yes` in `/etc/pulse/client.conf` and disabling `module-suspend-on-idle` in `/etc/pulse/default.pa` but nothing seems to work. What is going on?

EDIT: pardon the backticks! I thought this forum supported markdown!

Last edited by jwinnie (2020-03-19 23:48:58)

V1del

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Re: Pulseaudio fails after a period of time

It supports [ code ] [ /code ] tags without spaces instead.

How are you logging in? and into what kind of environment? After failure post a

sudo journalctl -b

jwinnie

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Registered: 2020-03-19

Posts: 5

Re: Pulseaudio fails after a period of time

I'm logging in via TTY and then launching the sway window manager manually from the command line, since I don't want to bother with a display manager.

Output of journalctl -b:

Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: Linux version 5.5.10-zen1-1-zen (linux-zen@archlinux) (gcc version 9.3.0 (Arch Linux 9.3.0-1)) #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:40:41 +0000
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: Command line: root=/dev/mapper/ProjectGenesis-root rw initrd=/amd-ucode.img initrd=/initramfs-linux-zen.img quiet splash loglevel=0 udev.log_priority=0 vga=current
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: KERNEL supported cpus:
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel:   Intel GenuineIntel
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel:   AMD AuthenticAMD
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel:   Hygon HygonGenuine
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel:   Centaur CentaurHauls
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel:   zhaoxin   Shanghai  
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers'
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers'
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers'
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]:  576, xstate_sizes[2]:  256
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using 'compacted' format.
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ffff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000a0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000009e01fff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000009e02000-0x0000000009ffffff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a000000-0x000000000a1fffff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a200000-0x000000000a20afff] ACPI NVS
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a20b000-0x000000000affffff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000b000000-0x000000000b01ffff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000b020000-0x00000000db830fff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000db831000-0x00000000db9c0fff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000db9c1000-0x00000000dbb44fff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dbb45000-0x00000000dbf62fff] ACPI NVS
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dbf63000-0x00000000dcb94fff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dcb95000-0x00000000deffffff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000df000000-0x00000000dfffffff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f8000000-0x00000000fbffffff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fd000000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000041f37ffff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: e820: update [mem 0xd7c07018-0xd7c15057] usable ==> usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: e820: update [mem 0xd7c07018-0xd7c15057] usable ==> usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: e820: update [mem 0xd7a83018-0xd7aa0257] usable ==> usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: e820: update [mem 0xd7a83018-0xd7aa0257] usable ==> usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: extended physical RAM map:
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ffff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000000a0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000009e01fff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000009e02000-0x0000000009ffffff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000a000000-0x000000000a1fffff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000a200000-0x000000000a20afff] ACPI NVS
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000a20b000-0x000000000affffff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000b000000-0x000000000b01ffff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000b020000-0x00000000d7a83017] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000d7a83018-0x00000000d7aa0257] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000d7aa0258-0x00000000d7c07017] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000d7c07018-0x00000000d7c15057] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000d7c15058-0x00000000db830fff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000db831000-0x00000000db9c0fff] reserved
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000db9c1000-0x00000000dbb44fff] usable
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000dbb45000-0x00000000dbf62fff] ACPI NVS
Mar 19 16:49:52 ProjectGenesis kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000dbf63000-0x00000000dcb94fff] reserved

jwinnie

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Registered: 2020-03-19

Posts: 5

Re: Pulseaudio fails after a period of time

Update: it seems that the issue has resolved itself. I have no idea why.