[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-10-15 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-08-16 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 16.10 (yakkety) reached end-of-life on July 20, 2017. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-04-03 Thread john nunnington
SOLVED - after a couple of hints with Tanu Kaskinen, this is solved with the following entry in /etc/pulse/default.pa .ifexists module-udev-detect.so load-module module-udev-detect tsched_buffer_size=16384 The suggested cause is that the kernel doesn't allow sufficient time to process the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-29 Thread john nunnington
no problems for several days while outputting through analog-stereo. Am i just wasting my time to think that somebody might actually look at this? Other people have reported what look like similar conditions, that never seem to meet a resolution. If there are some detailed instructions about

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-24 Thread john nunnington
Nope. Running without the faulty RAM (4GB as opposed to 12GB) and RhythmBox runs continuously (hours) while Spotify halts and cannot resume when pulseaudio terminates and restarts. Syslog demonstrates pulseaudio death and auto respawn Mar 25 10:05:25 silverstone pulseaudio[6061]: [pulseaudio]

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-24 Thread john nunnington
i think i have narrowed this down to a faulty RAM (in excess of 30K errors). I will replace this shortly and retest but that would explain why a new build and my other desktop with a similar build are unaffected, and why the error conditions are somewhat erratic. Does it explain why the fault

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-20 Thread john nunnington
comparing pulseaudio configuration, some rtp modules were uncommented in the failing environment so these were commented back out; result, pulseaudio ran for about 26 minutes before failing. Daemon restarted (as configured) and sound settings retained the selected output device...but spotify is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-20 Thread john nunnington
installed 16.04-02 onto an SSD this morning and Spotify/Pulseaudio has been running for 2-3 hours with only a single hiccup where Spotify just stopped - but pulseaudio daemon was still running and restarting Spotify solved the lack of music. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-19 Thread john nunnington
output from 'pacmd list'. I wasn't looking closely at this, but it looked like the PA daemon fell over while trying to execute the pacmd verb. I'm plugged into the motherboard sound output, and typically it is "stable" from there. ** Attachment added: "pacmd.list.out"

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-19 Thread john nunnington
pulseaudio log from session that died. ** Attachment added: "pulseverbose.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1673942/+attachment/4840685/+files/pulseverbose.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-19 Thread john nunnington
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected yakkety ** Description changed: this only happens when sound is through the PCI sound card. When i connect speakers to the motherboard output (I lose the 5.1 component), pulseaudio never dies. I have switched and replaced the sound

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-19 Thread Luke Yelavich
Could you also get a log from PulseAudio as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1673942 Title: pulseaudio suddenly

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-19 Thread Luke Yelavich
Please run apport-collect 1673942 in a terminal so we can get some more information about your hardware. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1673942 Title: pulseaudio

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-18 Thread john nunnington
kern.log entries at time of failure: Mar 19 11:50:01 silverstone unity-settings-[3397]: Unable to get default sink Mar 19 11:50:01 silverstone unity-settings-[3397]: Unable to get default source Mar 19 11:50:01 silverstone unity-settings-[3397]: Failed to connect context: Connection refused --

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1673942] Re: pulseaudio suddenly stops. No dmesg entries. Nothing in the syslog

2017-03-18 Thread john nunnington
sound devices disappear from output options. If I'm listening through Spotify, Spotify won't play until that has been restarted (from memory so do RhythmBox and Banshee) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in