Public bug reported: After a while, pulseaudio clients get connections refused and are unable to play audio / receive microphone input.
journalctl shows lots of messages like: Aug 17 13:00:17 taplop pulseaudio[2244465]: [pulseaudio] native-common.c: Expected 1 memfd fd to be received over pipe; got 0 Aug 17 13:00:17 taplop pulseaudio[2244465]: [pulseaudio] native-common.c: Did we reach our open file descriptors limit? Aug 17 13:00:17 taplop pulseaudio[2244465]: [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: protocol error, kicking client as well as Aug 17 13:03:52 taplop pulseaudio[2244465]: [pulseaudio] protocol- native.c: Warning! Too many connections (64), dropping incoming connection. killing the pulseaudio daemon makes audio work for a little while until the same thing repeats. not sure what's triggering it though, or how to best find out. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:15.99.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 5.17.0-051700drmtip20220329-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: jbarnett 2265029 F.... pulseaudio CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Wed Aug 17 14:13:56 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-17 (1096 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190305.1) RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks. SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-03-18 (152 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 03/25/2021 dmi.bios.release: 1.15 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1.15.1 dmi.board.name: 0N338G dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A00 dmi.chassis.type: 31 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.15.1:bd03/25/2021:br1.15:svnDellInc.:pnXPS159575:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0N338G:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct31:cvr:sku080D: dmi.product.family: XPS dmi.product.name: XPS 15 9575 dmi.product.sku: 080D dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug jammy wayland-session -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1986861 Title: pulseaudio stops accepting connections Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After a while, pulseaudio clients get connections refused and are unable to play audio / receive microphone input. journalctl shows lots of messages like: Aug 17 13:00:17 taplop pulseaudio[2244465]: [pulseaudio] native-common.c: Expected 1 memfd fd to be received over pipe; got 0 Aug 17 13:00:17 taplop pulseaudio[2244465]: [pulseaudio] native-common.c: Did we reach our open file descriptors limit? Aug 17 13:00:17 taplop pulseaudio[2244465]: [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: protocol error, kicking client as well as Aug 17 13:03:52 taplop pulseaudio[2244465]: [pulseaudio] protocol- native.c: Warning! Too many connections (64), dropping incoming connection. killing the pulseaudio daemon makes audio work for a little while until the same thing repeats. not sure what's triggering it though, or how to best find out. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:15.99.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 5.17.0-051700drmtip20220329-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: jbarnett 2265029 F.... pulseaudio CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Wed Aug 17 14:13:56 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-17 (1096 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190305.1) RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks. SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-03-18 (152 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 03/25/2021 dmi.bios.release: 1.15 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1.15.1 dmi.board.name: 0N338G dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A00 dmi.chassis.type: 31 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.15.1:bd03/25/2021:br1.15:svnDellInc.:pnXPS159575:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0N338G:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct31:cvr:sku080D: dmi.product.family: XPS dmi.product.name: XPS 15 9575 dmi.product.sku: 080D dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1986861/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp