Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pulseaudio
I have been frustrated with sound failures for as long as pulseaudio has been a part of Linux, and I'm trying my best to diagnose problems. In Ubuntu 9.10, I'm finding that when some apps run, no other app can output sound, and they just freeze. If I am running mythfrontend, and try to play a video from gnome-terminal, the video doesn't even start. When I exit mythfrontend, the video starts. Likewise, any alert sounds (like from pidgin) all play after mythfrontend exits, which is extremely annoying. If I play a streamed Flash movie in Firefox, most of the time any app that tries to output sound after it will be silent, and eventually sound won't work from Flash either. I tried running firefox in debug mode, and saw some interesting output. The relevant portion is HUNDREDS of lines saying "ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:724:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create stream: Too large". I searched the PA bug database and didn't find that phrase in any existing bugs. I did see mention of that error in Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554568 but with different circumstances. This is supposedly fixed in PA itself according to lennart. See http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/797 $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 $ apt-cache policy pulseaudio pulseaudio: Installed: 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4.1 Candidate: 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4.1 Version table: *** 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4.1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- PulseAudio: Unable to create stream: Too large https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/534482 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
