Similar condition to Stefan, my Asus UX305LA became completely unresponsive when listening youtube music and the computer and I have to force close and restart.
Mint 18.1 Cinnamon 64-bit (Ubuntu 16.04) ALSA 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu5 Firefox Dev Edition: 58.0b12 (64-bit) Pulse Audio: 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.7 My syslog is attached. The incident happened exactly at Dec 20 15:10 so I'm quite sure it's the issue. ** Attachment added: "syslog" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1274115/+attachment/5025001/+files/syslog -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1274115 Title: snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally large To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1274115/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs