Bug 823673

Summary: fedora suddenly stops recognizing sound card
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: kat
Component: pulseaudioAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: brendan.jones.it, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, lkundrak, lpoetter, madhu.chinakonda, markster
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Description kat 2012-05-21 20:28:09 UTC
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I have an installed sound card. Fedora will suddenly stop recognizing the sound card--the volume display will disappear and the sound settings tool will show no device available. This frequently happens in between playing music files or videos. I cannot figure out if anything in particular triggers this. 

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Play music or videos.
2. Suddenly find that no sound is playing. 
3. Attempt to adjust sound and find that no device is available.
Actual Results:  
Restart. Sound plays, until it doesn't. Cannot figure out how to bring device back except by restarting. 

Expected Results:  
Sound card recognized and remains recognized throughout entire session.

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2012-05-21 20:32:57 UTC
Which kernel version exactly?

Is there anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages that might be relevant to this?

Is pulseaudio crashing at all?  When the sound goes away, can you see anything in the 'alsamixer' tool?

Comment 2 kat 2012-05-21 21:38:05 UTC
I'm running kernel version 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64

I don't see anything relevant in /var/log/messages or dmesg. 

alsamixer gives me this message:

ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused
cannot open mixer: Connection refused

pulseaudio gives me this message:

E: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="29" name="platform-thinkpad_acpi" card_name="alsa_card.platform-thinkpad_acpi" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.

Comment 3 Mark Spencer 2012-06-04 15:22:21 UTC
Triage:

I had this myself and discovered the problem is that the runtime sockets for pulseaudio are stored in /tmp and they're getting reaped by the tmp cleaner.  There should be a file in /etc/tmpfiles.d to preserve /tmp/pulse/* or they need to be moved somewhere else where they aren't reaped.

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