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McFlow

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Registered: 2010-04-17

Posts: 58

Constant pulseaudio crashes

Hello,
I try to run my system with pulseaudio. More or less successful.
After some minutes of playback pulseaudio will just crash.
My soundcards are:

 0 [CA0106         ]: CA0106 - CA0106
                      Audigy SE [SB0570] at 0xe800 irq 21
 1 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xf9ff4000 irq 16

I use ca0106 for playback. If I use the hda-intel the crashes don't seem to appear.
Last week on ubuntu everything worked fine. So maybe there is a new problem in the driver?
This is the log of pulseaudio Pasted log.
This time, before pulseaudio died my complete system froze for one second, twice.
An excerpt from the log that seems suspicous to me:

E: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!
E: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_ca0106'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
E: alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.

I already did some research on this. There are old reports about this and a lot of recent bug reports. Some of them are from ubuntu lucid bug reports. So maybe there is a problem now with something. But I was not able to find a proper fix for it. I find those reports about my problem with hda-intel as well as ca0106.

Is someone able to help me with that or should I contact pulseaudio/alsa? devs?

Last edited by McFlow (2010-04-25 18:38:54)

ngoonee

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Re: Constant pulseaudio crashes

Get on the PA ML. Colin will help you out, if Lennart isn't free.

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bobland

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Registered: 2009-09-19

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Re: Constant pulseaudio crashes

I hate to reply this way but I abandoned Ubuntu Studio because the sound would drop out after 15 minutes.  I tried every fix I could find.  Also had numerous problems with flash.  Because I'm involved with video I felt Ubuntu presented more problems then advantages.

I've heard that all of these issues are resolved in Lucid.  However, I've always liked Arch and will stay here.

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Re: Constant pulseaudio crashes

Not sure how that information is helping him bobland. After all he's using Arch .

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McFlow

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Registered: 2010-04-17

Posts: 58

Re: Constant pulseaudio crashes

Thanks for your answers.
I did not think about the mailing list as a possibility. I will do it today, thank you.

McFlow

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Registered: 2010-04-17

Posts: 58

Re: Constant pulseaudio crashes

I posted to the pulseaudio mailing list. They said I should post on the alsa mailing list.
I did that but got no response so far.
Meanwhile I got the RC of ubuntu lucid and tried to reproduce my problem. Not possible. It seems that Archlinux seems to use an older version of ALSA than Lucid.
Do you think that updating Alsa could be worth a try?

Edit:
Update done. The message appears just after launching pulseaudio. It runs for some time and still dies. But the output will just say "killed".
Edit2:
Still the same error. I just missed it -.-

Last edited by McFlow (2010-04-29 19:47:34)