It would appear that the best way to trigger it is to play lots of sounds. Every time a new system event sound plays, for example, PA opens /dev/snd/timer 3 more times. I have no log messages to indicate why, nor can I otherwise explain this highly odd behavior. This means that the time to syslog beginning to fill up depends on how many events are played through the speakers.
It may happen at other times, too. I just restarted PA and already have many open instances of /dev/snd/timer: m...@zest:/proc/31224/fd$ ls -l /proc/$(pgrep pulseaudio)/fd|grep timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 27 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 28 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 29 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 45 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 46 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 47 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 48 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 49 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 50 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 51 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 52 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 53 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 54 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 55 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 58 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 59 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 60 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 64 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 65 -> /dev/snd/timer lr-x------ 1 mbt mbt 64 2009-10-15 22:16 66 -> /dev/snd/timer m...@zest:/proc/31224/fd$ ps -f $(pgrep pulseaudio) UID PID PPID C STIME TTY STAT TIME CMD mbt 25546 1 0 22:12 ? Ssl 0:02 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start - m...@zest:/proc/31224/fd$ pulseaudio --version pulseaudio 0.9.19 m...@zest:/proc/31224/fd$ apt-cache show pulseaudio Package: pulseaudio Priority: optional Section: sound Installed-Size: 4268 Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team <[email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu2 -- PulseAudio opens too many files, locks up, and fills up root fs (/var/log) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
