I was running Skype, which uses pulseaudio, but wasn't using the audio functionality. Also, I was using Virtualbox. The problem is that my XServer crashed while I was typing in Skype. When I checked the logs, I saw these last entries:
Sep 28 00:54:59 laptop kernel: [100317.622233] VirtualBox[8370]: segfault at 3 ip 0b230190 sp b5e5fe1c error 4 Sep 28 00:55:10 laptop pulseaudio[10371]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. Sep 28 00:55:12 laptop bonobo-activation-server (mike100-10370): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-tGc6qlSHIx: Connection refused Sep 28 00:55:12 laptop pulseaudio[10371]: main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-tGc6qlSHIx: Connection refused So, evidently a running, idle Virtualbox can randomly cause your XServer to crash via a socket down with pulseaudio. I'm running Ubuntu Desktop 10.04.1 LTS. -- pulseaudio: sudden crashes while watching video clips or listening to songs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434436 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
